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Vladimir Litvinenko, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Center of Competences in Mining Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO, and Marat Ibatov, Rector of Karaganda Technical University, signed a cooperation agreement, providing for the establishment of the Kazakhstani branch of the Center of Competences based on the university.

Professor Yury Kazakov, Acting Rector of KNRTU, gave an interview to Forpost Press. Amongst other questions, he talked about how, despite facing competition from other educational institutions, the university manages to rank as a top university in Tatarstan for graduate employability.

Rector Vladimir Litvinenko signed an order on the delivery mode of education programmes during the non-working days, October 30 to November 7

A meeting of the Academic Council took place at St. Petersburg Mining University

Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Sergey Dregval, who is responsible for energy and tariff regulation issues, visited Mining University. He held a working meeting with the rector of the university, got acquainted with the infrastructure of the higher educational institution, and talked to students and postgraduate students in an “open dialogue” format.

This year the oldest tournament was named after the founder of Leningrad - St. Petersburg student judo.

The discovery of an antibiotic that cured pneumonia, septicaemia and meningitis is now attributed to the British, with 3 scientists sharing a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work. So how come Russian medics, who had discovered the drug 70 years beforehand, were left out of the picture?

Along with QS and ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, it is one of the three most respected global ranking agencies whose recognition is considered an indisputable indicator of a university’s success.

First-year students spent two weeks studying the structure of Mining University and exploring its research facilities

Edvard Abdullazyanov gave an interview to Forpost Press, in which he discussed the prospects of power-engineering education in Russia.