Diego Monterrey

Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University continues to implement a pilot project to improve the higher education system. It is aimed at improving the quality of engineering personnel training for the real sector of the national economy, which is impossible without increasing students’ motivation to build their future careers in production.

In the nineties and noughties, China literally flooded the world market with cheap goods. However, while twenty years ago their Abibas sneakers were laughed at, nowadays ”made in China” products often meet the highest quality standards. From a country with reverse engineering, the Celestial Empire has become a global leader in such areas as electronics manufacturing, automotive industry, artificial intelligence and computer technology.

In early April, a representative delegation from St. Petersburg Mining University paid a working visit to the Republic of Zimbabwe. Forpost has already written about the part of the trip that was devoted to familiarizing with the mining industry of this southern African country. Today - a detailed story about its higher education system.

According to the expert, resource independence can be achieved through the formation of new geological knowledge, as well as improving the quality level of training of engineers and scientific personnel.

Despite the fact that chemistry begins to be studied in the eighth grade and is indispensable in dozens of industries that are crucial for the economy, if an ordinary Russian is asked to name the names of great Russian chemists, the vast majority will limit themselves to Lomonosov and Mendeleev. Only a small part would add a third name - Academician Nikolai Kurnakov.

Russia is often referred to as a raw material country, giving this concept a negative meaning. They say that the subsoil is rich in minerals, but there are problems with value chains.

The oldest technical university in Russia took the sixth place in the international rating of the British agency QS. On Wednesday, April 10, it became known that Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Petersburg Mining University for the eighth time in a row entered the top 20 of the World University Ranking by Subject in the direction of ”Mineral & Mining Engineering” (Mineral & Mining Engineering).This year it took the sixth place in the world, in the first half-dozen also three Australian universities, Colorado School of Mines and Canadian McGill University.

In early April, a representative delegation from St. Petersburg Mining University paid a working visit to the Republic of Zimbabwe. The main objectives of the visit were to get acquainted with the higher education system of this South African state, the state of affairs in the field of geological exploration and subsoil use, and to identify practical ways of cooperation in the format of a roadmap for the medium term.

The year 2024 has been declared the Year of the Family in Russia. This decision was made by President Vladimir Putin ”in order to preserve and protect the traditional values that underlie our state and unite all its citizens”. As is well known, many families are born while they are still students. Young people come to a new city, get acquainted, fall in love, get married and create really strong unions that are not subject to any problems and crises. However, there are many pitfalls waiting for such couples, and the first of them is the need to rent a place to live.

It is now clear that after the end of the Cold War, the world entered a global transformation. Its meaning and significance have been understood in different ways. Western elites assumed that globalization would automatically expand their sphere of control and dominance by absorbing the ”Soviet legacy,” for which they did not even have to fight. Much was not understood and we, indulging in convergence illusions, thought that we would ”integrate” into the West, which would undergo a radical positive transformation.

Last spring, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the improvement of the higher education system, the aim of which is to qualitatively improve the process of personnel training for the long-term needs of various sectors of the national economy. One of the six participants of the pilot project was the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, whose first-year students are already studying under the new curricula as part of the transition to basic higher engineering education.

Этот процесс в прошлом году инициировал Президент России Владимир Путин.

During his address to the Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin paid special attention to the development of science and education, and emphasized the need for additional measures aimed at making ”today’s teenagers become professionals in their field, ready to work in the economy of the 21st century.”

This year, for fire safety reasons, the students did not burn the scarecrow, but, as always on the eve of Lent, they ate a whole mountain of pancakes. On Saturday, March 16, on the territory of dormitory No. 3 of Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University the traditional winter farewell took place. They were attended not only by Russians, but also by students from abroad, who were not familiar with our national customs before.

This academic year, Rossotrudnichestvo has more than doubled the quota for students from Africa to study at Russian universities, from 2,300 to 4,720 budget places. Most often, applicants who come from the sunny continent choose ”medical treatment”, engineering specialities, as well as economics and information technology as their areas of training. However, they also learn other professions.

Burema Kansai, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Republic of Mali, paid a working visit to Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University. During his meeting with Rector Vladimir Litvinenko, he discussed the prospects of bilateral cooperation, as well as partnership within the framework of the African Subsoil Consortium.