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In an interview to Forpost, Oleg Baulin, Rector of Ufa State Petroleum Technological University (USPTU), explains whether distance learning can replace contact study sessions and what competencies employers require from fresh graduates, aside from the field-specific knowledge and skills.
For decades, the domestic academic community has been trying to rapidly increase its scientometric indicators, primarily the citation rate of articles. However, we have not been able to achieve any tangible success although the number of publications in journals indexed by the leading scientific Internet search platforms Scopus and Web of Science has doubled in ten years. In 2009, the country issued 65,000 articles to the world; in 2019, it is almost 137,000.
In an interview to Forpost, Aleksandr Shestakov, Rector of South Ural State University (SUSU), speaks on the drawbacks of higher school in comparison to the Soviet system. He also mentions areas in which Russia is lagging behind foreign universities and areas in which our country manages to outstrip them.
In an interview to Forpost, Gleb Turichin, Rector of the Marine Technical University, spoke about how to prevent the engineering education from degradation, when Russian universities will meet employers’ requirements, and why so far no one can take our country’s institutions for PhD studies seriously.
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Ex-ambassador of Russia to the UK talked on the pandemic’s consequences and said how to deal with them.
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Some time later, the Belarusian BELAZ Company also announced the creation of robotic dump trucks. They were sent to the Chernogorsky coal mine in the Republic of Khakassia, where the SUEK Company operates.
In November 2020, the Siberian Federal University joined the Nedra Consortium of technical universities. In an interview with Forpost.ru, its rector Maxim Rumyantsev spoke about the benefits that the association would bring directly to students, why the national higher school today is so concerned with the issue of competitiveness, and why engineering universities in the regions do not switch to a remote format of education.
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The Murmansk region business faces new and ambitious tasks today: digital development of the Arctic zone. The head of the Mining Department of one of the largest companies in the Arctic region, where underground drilling rigs are already remotely controlled by operators, said when robots will completely replace humans.
At first glance, building a career in the Far North is a bold, if not daring decision. However, it is there that the largest oil fields in Russia are located, so, combined with harsh winters and remoteness from megacities, local specialists have an opportunity to achieve rapid success in their efforts. A St. Petersburg university graduate told how to become a leading specialist in the Production Optimization Sector of RNYuganskneftegaz just within a few years.
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Despite the pandemic, Russia continues to hold educational exhibitions abroad, attracting foreign students to its universities. What are the consequences for the future if we stop addressing this issue today?