A ceremony to award the winners of a city-wide competition Kazan Best Teacher 2014 was held at Kazan City Hall earlier today.
The competition is traditionally held shortly before the Internatioanl Women’s Day on 8 March. Mayor of Kazan, Ilsur Metshin, said that the number of nominations and participants constantly increased.
A conference of pre-school educators themed Tatarstan Perspective. Education 3.0 takes place in Kazan today. It is held at the premises of the secondary school No 177.
Tatarstan Education and Science Minister Engel Fattakhov and Alexander Kondakov, Doctor of Education and comprehensive education standards development project manager, take part in the conference. Other attendees are municipal education chiefs, secondary school headmasters, etc.
Up to 25,000 IT specialists graduate annually from Russian universities, and only 15-20% of engineering students can be immediately employed in the sphere of information technologies.
A preschool establishment educator forum themed Tatarstan's Prospects: Education 3.0 would take place in Kazan on 26 February, Tatarstan First Deputy Education and Science Minister Danil Mustafin said at a Tatarstan Cabinet briefing.
Schools in Kazan will be equipped with surveillance cameras. The installation is planned to be completed by May. The press service of the Mayor’s Office said the equipment would be leased, with about 22 billion roubles being earmarked in the city’s budget for its maintenance. From next year on, budget funds for CCTV cameras are expected to be allocated annually.
School student activists would hold a flashmob dedicated to the opening of the Olympic Games in Sochi later in the day, Yulia Kolobova, head of Zarechie continued education centre’s department of civic and patriotic education, said. According to Y. Kolobova, some 100 pupils would take part in the flashmob. They will do dancing exercises at the site by the centre.
The ministry plans to create an electronic file of all the original works, which would both be useful to young researchers and provide an outlook of the current situation in Russian science in general.
Russian Ministry of Education and Science has published the minutes of a meeting on 13 December 2013 held by interagency commission on monitoring the efficiency of higher educational establishments, with appendixes.
The winners of stage three of an IT Champion competition, in the Most Active School Student nomination, and winners in the nomination Tatarstan Website of State and Municipal Services Promotion, were on Saturday awarded at the Kazan’s IT Park. The most active participants were given an iPad tablet PC.
Tatarstan’s education minister, Engel Fattakhov, on Wednesday met with journalists, to sum up the outgoing year’s results.
The expiring year was significant for the education sector, said E. Fattakhov, since new federal and republican laws on education had taken effect.