NEWS

Buses were today gifted to municipal schools and Tatarstan Education Ministry establishments within festive events marking the Day of the Teacher.
Tatarstan Prime Minister, Ildar Khalikov, education minster, Engel Fattakhov, Council of Municipalities chairman, Minsagit Shakirov, and other officials were attendees.

Prime Minister of Tatarstan, Ildar Khalikov, visited cadet school No 1 in the village of Vasilievo in Tatarstan’s Zelenodolsky region.
He was accompanied by education minister, Engel Fattakhov, chief federal inspector for Tatarstan, Renat Timerzyanov, and school No 1 headmistress, Galina Zaitseva.

On the Day of Antiterrorism Solidarity a single lesson themed No To Extremism is held at schools in Tatarstan. Preparatory school No 17 in the Moscow district was not an exception, a lecture being held there for two groups of 9-year schoolchildren.

Official school assemblies dedicated to the Day of Knowledge will on 2 September take place at schools in Tatarstan.
Total of 36,148 children would first go to school, 11,101 in Kazan.

Advanced technologies were highly called for in Tatarstan’s education, since their usage was an important factor for system’s increased efficiency and competitiveness, President of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, said while opening the plenary session of a regional education and science conference.
Arsk had not been chosen randomly as the venue, he said. “There are quite a few interesting projects here, in particular, a remote Tatar language learning project,” governor said, adding that he had learned about the innovation while visiting the Arsk Pedagogical College.

Kazan school student Mukhail Yagofarov has won the silver medal at the 45th international chemistry competition among school student on 15-24 July held at the premises of the Moscow Lomonosov University’s department of chemistry.

Specialists from the Russian Historical Society’s Volga branch would be engaged in writing new history text books, said State Duma chairman, Sergei Naryshkin, while speaking on Tuesday at the organisation’s Volga branch foundation meeting.

The number of school graduates scoring 100 at the unified state exam in Tatarstan this year increased. While in 2012 they were 109, in 2013 they became 416, first deputy education minister, Danil Mustafin, said at a Cabinet of Ministers briefing.

President of Tatarstan, R. Minnikhanov, has today met with winners of international and national subject-specific academic competitions, and with teachers who had trained the students. Other attendees were Tatarstan education minister, Engel Fattakhov, Kazan Federal University rector, Ilshat Gafurov, and president of Tatarstan deputy chief of staff, Alexander Terentiev.

A total of 20,878 school students in Tatarstan sat for the unified state examination in the Russian language. Seven graduates in schools in the Baltasy, Zainsk, Novosheshminsk, Sarmanov and other regions, as well as the Kirov district of Kazan, were removed for breaching the rules of examination.