NEWS

The 13th specialised exhibition called Education. Career has today opened in Kazan.
The event, arranged with the support of Tatarstan Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security, as well as Kazan Mayor’s Office, will take place on 3 to 5 April.

A total of 2,135 children have earned their first grades in a Tatarstan-wide competition IT Champion, launched on 1 March.

Tatarstan education and science minister, Engel Fattakhov, on Friday held a regular staff meeting with municipal education authorities chiefs on issues related to providing safety for children.

A briefing themed On Launching a Tatar Language Teaching Project, Ana Tele, today took place in Kazan.

To supply school students, a special republican electronic text book fund has been set up. Tatarstan education and science minister, Engel Fattakhov, said at an end-of-year staff meeting, delivery of text books from publishing houses directly to municipalities had been arranged.

Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, said during a video conference on pre-school education on Wednesday that the efforts of the authorities of 8 Russian constituents had helped resolve the issue of long waiting lists to kindergartens.

Major Russian Rossia TV and radio company’s deputy general director, TV host Sergei Brilev, on Monday read a lecture for students at Kazan Federal University. The fact that the event had aroused a special interest in future journalists was already evident in the check-room.

Three higher schools and 14 branches in Tatarstan have been listed by the Russian Education Ministry as having signs of inefficiency. The document is published on the authority’s site.

The Kazan Federal University’s academic council has ruled to set up an Institute of Mass Communications and Social Sciences on the grounds of the department of journalism.

About half billion roubles has over the recent years been spent on the major repair of kindergartens, but 60 percent of them in Kazan, or 175 built over 30 years ago, require major renovation. The statement was made during a today’s Kazan City Duma session.