Profound political, social and economic changes that take place in our country have a serious impact on various spheres of human life and activity. Today is a very urgent need for continuing education for each person over a lifetime. That is why at the present stage of society development specialists with higher professional pedagogical education are becoming particularly popular.
The main objective of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University is to create an educational environment corresponding to the level of higher international standards of training, bachelor's and master's degrees for a highly educational activities. Established educational environment is focused on training of competitive specialists who are ready to work in the educational institutions of different levels, in research organizations, government agencies, private companies, implementing the knowledge acquired during the period of training.
The main components of the educational environment of TSPU are:
- fundamental training in computer science, mathematics, physics;
- basic training in the field of economics, sociology and political science;
- language training;
- basic training in the field of psychology, pedagogy.
The implementation of these components is provided by the introduction of new educational technologies and research students. Particular attention is paid to the individual work of students, the use of life problems in research. An important feature of the learning process is to obtain the teamwork skills, participation in team projects with real practical training and internships.
Graduates of the University's teaching programs and directions of training must surely take the leading teacher and professor positions in educational institutions and efficiently solve innovative educational goals.
Graduates of TSPU trained in non-teaching areas of training, should effectively address any professional and industrial tasks to a high standard of preparation of Tomsk State Pedagogical University and meet the requirements of industry, corresponding to the profession’s requests.
Our graduates have the necessary skills to conduct research and teaching work, will be able to work as specialists in educational and consulting services of the organizations and companies, in implementation or maintenance of business companies in the state structure. Areas of graduate employment will be a variety of national and international educational institutions, organizations, foundations, educational centers, private financial corporations, banks, consulting agencies.
Our graduates have always been in demand as professionals. TSPU diplomas allow our graduates to realize their professional demands and work successfully in many sectors of the Russian economy, governance and politics .
Here are a few examples of successful self-realization of our graduates!
- Honored teacher of the school of the Russian Federation, the Chevalier of the Order of October Revolution Psakhie Grigory Abramovich
- Children's writer Volkov Alexander Melentevich
- Writer Lipatov Vil’ Vladimirovich (1927-1979)
- Hero of Russia, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Master of Sports of Russia, honorary citizen of Seversk, honorary citizen of St. Petersburg, honorary citizen of Tomsk region Lyubov Ivanovnf Egorova.
- Olympic champion of XX Olympic Winter Games, Honored Master of Sports of Russia, Honorary Citizen of the Tomsk region, honorary graduate of Tomsk State Pedagogical University Natalia Ivanovna Baranova – Masalkina.
TomskState Pedagogical University is the Centre for Education, Science and Culture, one of the leading educational institutions of Russia. Special attention is given to the international activities of the University.
In 2009 Tomsk State Pedagogical University became the winner of the "hundred best universities in Russia". The competition was held by the International Academy for Quality and Marketing under the auspices of the Federation Council Committee on Education and Science and the State Duma Committee on Education. Rector of Tomsk State Pedagogical University , Valery V. Obukhov, recognized the rector of the year, and the Pedagogical University was awarded a gold medal, "European Quality " also got 2 diplomas of the winner of the contest in the category: "Scientific School" and "Leader of international activities".
Tomsk State Pedagogical University has extensive international contacts, established partnerships with such influential international organizations such as the Department of Education of the Council of Europe, the Institute for Research and retraining United Nations (UNITAR), the DAAD, the Institute after Goethe, IREX, the Alliance Francaise , the British Council, Fulbright, American Councils for International Education, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Dutch Institute, the Carnegie Foundation and others. A special place in international relations takes participation of TSPU in a consortium led by the Dresden University of Technology in the framework of the academic mobility "Erasmus Mundus".
The university is implementing various programs of international collaboration with the foreign universities and organizations. The cooperation with the universities of the Republic of Poland - Wroclaw, Opole and Krakow University. Permanent academic exchanges and mutual interactive lectures over the Internet in real-time physics, chemistry, sociology, English and Spanish TSPU performs with the University of North Carolina, Pembroke (USA).
Collaboration with the University of Indiana is part of a specific project "Cultural Immersion". An agreement was signed between the Department of Theoretical Physics, Tomsk State Pedagogical University and the University of Uestern Case Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio (USA), which introduces a research and exchange of information is carried out .
Concluded international agreements on cooperation in the specialty "Linguistics" with the city of Sardis Science Centre (Canada), University of Belefeld (Germany), University of Rouen (France), with a degree in "Theoretical Physics" - with the universities of Philadelphia (United States), Munich, Berlin, Potsdam, Leipzig (Germany), the University of Crete (Greece), Polytechnic Institute, Paris (France, Technical University of Gothenburg (Sweden), University of Utrecht (The Netherlands), Imperial College London(UK), specialty "Polish" - with the Ministry of education of Poland, the field of "Russian as a foreign language", "Polish as a foreign language " with the University of Wroclaw (Poland), specialty "Physical culture and Sport" - with pedagogical university, Mogilev (Belarus), the Institute of Physical Culture in Ulan Bator (Mongolia).
In recent years, there is an active development in cooperation with universities in Japan - Hiroshima University and Ochanomizu University, Tokyo. On the basis of TSPU opened the country's only information booth Hiroshima office of the Institute of Research and Professional Enhancement of the United Nations (UNITAR).
Advanced Training Vocational retraining лучше сделать One of the main activities of the university is working on academic exchanges. Graduate and undergraduate students leave for probation, in accordance with agreements with foreign universities, universities in Poland, Japan, Norway, China, the U.S., Mongolia, Brazil, Australia, Finland, the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Turkey. It has become an annual tradition to send students for a period of 3-4 months to the U.S. under the "Work and Travel" program and to work as counselors through the offices of the programs.
TomskState Pedagogical University is one of the leaders of higher education of the Russian Federation. University is a leader in independent rankings:
- According to the rating of Russian universities for scientific achievement (http://reitor.ru/common/img/uploaded/files/R_hirsh.pdf), prepared in 2009 by the agency ReitOR, Tomsk State Pedagogical University is ranked 12th among all universities in Russia (including all research and federal universities), and 1st among pedagogical universities in the country according to the Hirsch index , which characterizes the relevance, importance and citations of scientific results.
- Rating of scientific publication activity of Russian universities for 2010, prepared by NRU "Higher School of Economics " (NRU HSE, Moscow ) at the request of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (http://www.hse.ru/org/hse/sc/interg) showed that the Tomsk State pedagogical University ranks 13th among all universities in Russia (including all research and federal universities), and 1st among pedagogical universities of Russia.
- As per the ranking of the world research organizations according to the citation of publications from the Corporation Microsoft (http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Organization/16409/tomsk-state-pedagogical-university) TSPU in physics ranks 5th among all universities in Russia for citation, second only to MSU, MIPT, MEPhI, SpbSU and outrunning other universities of the Russian Federation. According to this rating, Tomsk State Pedagogical University is in the top 20 % of research organizations in the world of physics.
- In the National rating of colleges of the Russian Federation for 2010, prepared by the international group "Interfax" and "Radio Moscow » (http://unirating.ru/rating_branch.asp?br=13) in the category of "pedagogical, humanitarian and linguistic universities" Russia Tomsk State Pedagogical University ranked 2nd place with 99 points, second only to the RSPU named by A. I. Hertzen University Herzen (100 points). Research in this rating Chair for the 1st place .
- In 2011, Professor of Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Sergey Odintsov was included in the top 10 of the most famous Russian scientists according to the publication Forbes (http://www.forbes.ru/ekonomika-slideshow/lyudi/75452-10-samyh-izvestnyh-v-mire-uchenyh-russkogo-proishozhdeniya/slide/7). According to the American scientific information base SPIRES professor Odintsov is one of the most cited scientists in the world (the number of references to his work more than 16 thousand). Sergey works at TSPU of internationally recognized scientific school of theoretical physicists, which has the official status of " Leading Scientific Schools of the Russian Federation." Among the co-authors, S.D. Odintsov, Professor of TSPU: I.L. Buchbinder, P.M. Lavrov, V.V. Obukhov, K.E. Osetrin I.L. Shapiro, as well as many foreign scholars (from Japan, Spain, Norway, etc.).
The scientific activity of the University covers the current trends in basic and applied science, humanities, psychological and pedagogical sciences.
In TSPU developed several scientific schools, including special place:
- Scientific school of theoretical physicists, "Quantum field theory. Gravity "
- Studies of Research School "Wetlands and Biosphere"
- ScientificSchool of comparative-historical, typological and comparative linguistics studying the Germanic, Indo-European languages, the languages and culture of the indigenous peoples of Siberia and the North.
- Scientific school of mathematics teaching "Mathematics. Psychology. Intellect "
- ScientificSchool"The philosophy of education. Philosophy of science and technology. All-Russian School of Young Scientists (complex approach to the preparation of the expert and researcher)".
Information on the university's administration and departments
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The Tomsk State Pedagogical University is actively involved in scientific activities in various fields of science: humanities, natural and technical sciences, from cosmology to linguistics. The TSPU conducts research in more than 20 main scientific areas including Theoretical Physics, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Ecology, Soil Science, History, Economics, Philosophy of Science and Technology, Literature, Linguistics, Pedagogy, Psychology, Culture, etc. Over the long history of the university, many scientific schools have been formed and won scientific recognition.
"Quantum field theory and gravity" (professors I. L. Buchbinder, P. M. Lavrov, V. V. Obukhov, S. D. Odintsov, I. L. Shapiro, K. E. Osetrin, V.Y a. Epp and others), according to the Russian and foreign experts, carries out important research at the world level.
"Swamps and Biosphere" under the leadership of professor L. I. Inisheva carries out work on the project within the framework of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation on the topic: "Regularities of the functioning and evolution of Siberian swamp ecosystems under conditions of changing climatic factors".
The scientific school in the field of methods of teaching mathematics in higher and secondary schools (professors E. G. Gelfman, M. A. Kholodnaya) united many researchers, teachers of mathematics at pedagogical universities and schools. The results of their activities are widely used in the education system of many regions of the country.
Many research areas are carried out in collaboration with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna), the Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow), the Institute of Mathematics (Novosibirsk), the University of Pennsylvania (USA), University of Maryland (USA), Nagoya University (Japan), Institute for Educational Systems Development of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Goethe, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), A. Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Wroclaw University (Poland).
In the recent researches, the employees of the TSPU studied the following topics:
- Supersymmetry in quantum field theory and higher spin field theory.
- Foreign students of Tomsk universities from Asian countries: educational migration as a factor in the development of the export potential of the Siberian region.
- Spatially homogeneous models of space-time in metric theories of gravity, allowing separation of variables in the Hamilton-Mock equation for test particles
- Regularities and trends in the development of university cities: an economic and sociological review
- Features of rural schools in the context of the formation of the information society in Russia. Subdivision: Faculty of Psychological, Pedagogical and Special Education.
- Interaction of junior schoolchildren with different educational needs in a foreign language lesson through educational communication. Subdivision: Faculty of Preschool and Primary Education
The TSPU regularly participates in international conferences and organizes scientific events. Recently the university took part in the following conferences:
- International videoconference "Prospects for the development of joint scientific projects" together with Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Santa Catarina (Brazil)
- V International Video Conference "Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language” together with Polish Institute (Poland), Mudanjiang Pedagogical University (China)
- International Round Table "Events and Events in Slavic Literatures of Critical Epochs" together with Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
- International videoconference on joint scientific projects in the field of physics and mathematics together with Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology (Brazil),
- International Conference "Quantum Field Theory and Gravity - QFTG'2020"
