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New Structure Established at Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko Says

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The head of the university stated the need to improve the effectiveness of educational work with young people.

On Friday, December 24, the St. Petersburg Mining University had its final Academic Council meeting of 2021. Rector Vladimir Litvinenko introduced several initiatives aimed at optimizing educational activities. In particular, he proposed the creation of a structure that would be a kind of bridge between the university’s administration, teachers, and students.

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“Today, student government does not fully solve the tasks that are entrusted to it, and not always understands them, being engaged mostly only in organizing leisure activities or solving some household problems. This, of course, is also important, but, obviously, not enough. We need to form a civic position of students and postgraduate students, to instill in them high standards of moral culture, to promote a healthy lifestyle. Because educational work is an integral part of academic activities. And we must fill it with worthy content and meaning. It is also necessary to have feedback with young people. This is why, among other things, the new structure will evaluate educational innovations and educational requirements from the perspective of their adequacy and realism of implementation. And it will have an opportunity to present its opinion to the administration of the university,” stressed Vladimir Litvinenko.

The organization will consist of students, postgraduate students, and new graduates. The backbone will consist of the headmen of the academic groups, as they are “democratically elected leaders” who have taken a certain responsibility. In addition, international students and representatives of the Postgraduate Student Council will be included (two of them will also become members of the Academic Council). The introduction of an exempt position of coordinator-leader is also envisaged.

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“We work in the education system. This is the foundation of the humanization of society. Mining University must create an environment of trust, based on the commonality of tasks faced by all participants in the scientific and educational process. Once again, we are talking about moral education, starting with the cultivation of traditional family values, as well as increasing the level of competence of students,” summed up Vladimir Litvinenko.

The Academic Council unanimously supported the rector’s proposals and then proceeded to the procedures on the agenda.

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The guest of the final meeting of the year was the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Academy of Mining Sciences Yury Malyshev. He came especially to award the rector Vladimir Litvinenko a medal named after Mikhail Soimonov, president of the Berg Collegium in 1771-1781 years, one of the initiators of creating Russia’s first higher technical school, which is now called St. Petersburg Mining University.

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