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No atomic bombs or long-range missiles are required to destruct a nation, but a reduction of the education quality and a given permission on cheating at exams for students

Five post-graduate students from Saint-Petersburg Mining University were awarded with prizes for steel industry participants at Saarland in Germany. The ceremony took place in Potsdam as a part of the XI Russian-German Raw Materials Dialogue, which came to its end on the 8th of November.

Improving the subject rankings system in the universities is an important issue and the matter of interest for the management of mineral and energy companies. These are the words of Valery Yazev, the President of the Voluntary Association ”Russian Miners”, following the signing of an agreement with Quacquarelli Symonds.

The agreement between the government of the Russian Federation and the UN on the establishment of the International Center of Competence in Mining Education was ratified by the State Duma on October 18.

Students of Lanzhou University of Technology came to the Mining University this summer as interns of the International Summer School. After having finished their education upon the programme ”Innovations and development prospects of mechanical and electrical engineering”, they shared the impressions of their stay in Russia.

Students of the AGH University of Science and Technology (Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie) shared their views on the practice held by the Mining University in Saint-Petersburg. The practical training took place in July in accordance with a programme ”Modern technologies of drilling, transportation and storage of oil and gas”.

Representatives of the state expressed a desire to implement good practices followed by the Mining University with regards to training of engineers.

Several international summer schools took place at the Saint-Petersburg Mining University this summer. The participants of one of the schools, named ”Engineering geodesy: theory and practice”, were students from Lebanon. ”Forpost” surveyed the students in order to find out what they thought about Saint-Petersburg, education in Russia, as well as what were their expectations from the trip and whether they aligned with reality.

A decision to hold an international youth conference of the World Petroleum Council (WPC) in Saint-Petersburg has fully served its purpose.

This fall over 350 students from as many as 29 countries will commence their studies at either pre-university courses or at Bachelor’s, Specialist’s and Master’s Degree Programmes.