On June 30, 2021 the Board of Tomsk Vocational Education Department continued its work: the first meeting was held at the Center for advanced vocational training, headed by Yuri Vladimirovich Kalinyuk, Head of the Department. The board included Rector of Tomsk State Pedagogical University A. Makarenko, Head of Education Department of Tomsk District Administration Yu. Dubovitskaya, Chairman of the Legislative Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy L. Glok, Deputy Mayor of Tomsk on social policy K. Chubenko, as well as representatives of business and municipal entities.

At the meeting, Yuri Vladimirovich presented his colleagues a report "Development of the network and challenges of the Tomsk region vocational education system through the implementation of national projects and regional policy", in which he discussed new directions of work: the final certification in the format of the demonstration exam, as well as "Factory processes" - a program aimed at practical training in the principles and tools of lean production within the national project "Productivity and Employment Support". In addition, the stages of development of the vocational education system over the last three years and the goals for the next few years were announced.

At the end of the meeting, the members discussed further plans for implementing the activities of the Board in the context of efficient personnel training to meet the needs of the regional economy.

Photo: Department of Professional Education of Tomsk region

July 1 is the foundation date of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University. 119 years ago, in 1902, at the Imperial command of Emperor Nicholas II the Tomsk State Pedagogical University was established.

Since then, the University has come a long way: from the Teachers Institute, where students received secondary vocational education, to the Faculty of Education in the structure of the Tomsk University, to the independence status of a higher educational institution in 1930. By the 1930s, there was already a clear understanding that despite the existence of the Faculty of Education, there was still "insufficient training of teachers in the Tomsk District" and "it is impossible to solve this problem with one faculty", "it is necessary to have a teaching institute, which would provide teaching staff not only for Tomsk but also for all Siberia".

Indeed, at that time there were only two teacher training faculties east of the Urals — at the Irkutsk University and at the Far East University. The main contender for the opening of the first pedagogical institute in Western Siberia was Tomsk, provided with scientists and a highly qualified faculty and pedagogical staff. The next milestone in the fate of Tomsk State Pedagogical University - in November 1995, the university was renamed into the Tomsk State Pedagogical University.

Today, our university is a recognized research and education center and one of the strongest pedagogical universities in the country; it has become the Alma Mater for over 70 000 graduates and hosts over 8000 students from 38 regions of Russia and 14 countries. Today's success of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University in the scientific and educational field is based each of us and those generations of educators and teachers who have connected their lives with the history of the University.

Happy Birthday, Tomsk Pedagogical University!

Dear students of the TSPU, if you are a resident of another country, you need to fill in the form for the notification of arrival in Russia during the pandemic for your studies.

The data will be transferred by the experts of the Department of international cooperation of the TSPU to the lists of foreign citizens crossing the border of the Russian Federation.

For clarification of questions: infocent@tspu.ru.

June 18, 2021 Tomsk State Pedagogical University has launched the admission campaign. Admission documents from applicants are accepted both in-person and remotely.

Information about the university, TSPU faculties, forms and programsof study, required dates and additional opportunities are available on the website of the TSPU Applicant. There are following options to submit a package of documents:

• in the in-person format (60 Kievskaya St., the main building of the TSPU);

• through the personal account on the website of the TSPU Applicant;

• by e-mail: pktspu@tspu.ru or platno@tspu.ru (for admission to the paid form of education);

• through public postal operators (send the originals by mail);

• Through the service by portal "Gosuslugi".

Specialists of the Admissions Committee of the TSPU work according to the following schedule:

• from 9.00 to 17.00 hours on weekdays;

• From 9.00 to 13.00 on Saturdays.

It is also possible to ask questions and receive prompt consulting assistance:

• by phone: (382-2) 311-411 and (382-2) 311-412 (Department of Paid Educational Services);

• e-mail: pktspu@tspu.ru;

• in a special section of the website of the TSPU Applicant;

• in the group of the TSPU Applicant in the social network "VKontakte".

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On June 17 in the children's technological park "Quantorium" of Tomsk the final project lesson "Swarm of nanosatellites - Stage 3" took place in the framework of the project "Space Lesson", partly organized and initiated by the Tomsk State Pedagogical University.

The use of satellites is widespread all over the world: programs for launching telecommunication satellites, remote sensing satellites and others are being implemented. Engineers and workers create the latest satellite systems. Russia's advanced universities and space industry enterprises face an important task: to create a swarm of small space satellites that can interact with each other and together solve assigned tasks. The participants of "Space Lessons" - students from Omsk and Tomsk and "Unicom" center from Kemerovo - took part in the target-oriented work on the creation of unique spacecraft. For the first time, a team from the Moscow State Education Complex was represented among the teams, where the schoolchildren get professional education in modern professions.

The host of the "Space Lesson" was Egor Butsenko, a senior lecturer at the Department of Chemistry and Methods of Teaching Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry at the Tomsk State Pedagogical University:

"Any project work contributes to the development of both personal and professional abilities of schoolchildren: expansion of the outlook, skills of self-presentation and teamwork. In terms of career guidance the participants of such lessons can immediately understand if they want to tie their life with the study of space or not".

At each of Spacelesson's sites around Russia experts were presented: in Kemerovo - Elena Alekseevna Pakhomova, Deputy Chairman of the Kuzbass Government for Education and Science; in Moscow - pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Alexander Kaleri and Anton Pozharnitsky, engineer of the laboratory of innovative solutions for creating products of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia named after S.P. Korolev; The Omsk site interacted with Pavel Stepen, a specialist in spacecraft engines, an employee of aviation and rocketry at the Omsk State Technical University. An expert from the TPU Vasily Fedorov, head of the mechanical engineering department and a professional in the design and creation of small spacecraft oversaw the work in Tomsk.

During the main part of the lesson, four teams presented the results of their project work on creating swarming satellites. At the last lesson on the 27th of October the participants got the basic steps of the design process: the first step was to get the initial data for the small spacecraft design, the second step was to determine the composition of the satellite, design its future 3D-model and the third step was to start the process of the MCA production technology creation. Tomsk scientists presented a model of the satellite and proposed options for its service systems and payloads.

The lesson experts discussed the results obtained by the teams in the course of their work and outlined the next steps:

"There is not much time left before the launch. After receiving a working prototype, tests are to begin: both autonomous and comprehensive. Their main goal is to confirm the performance of the satellite in space conditions and to confirm its characteristics", — said specialists in Tomsk.

Participants were also able to talk to the crew members of the Russian segment of the ISS Petr Dubrov and Oleg Novitsky on the topic of the lesson, ask questions relating to the nanosatellite swarm, as well as life and work of astronauts on the International Space Station: what tools astronauts need on the ISS, about conducting experiments onboard the station, about the astronauts on Earth training for work on the station.

The participants of all four teams did a tremendous amount of work to create small spacecraft: mockups of future satellites are ready. Tests that will show their effectiveness. There is even a chance that the satellites made by the students will get into space and bring mankind closer to its understanding and knowledge. The launch of a swarm of small space satellites into orbit is scheduled for 2022-2023.

The Space Lesson project has been implemented in Tomsk since 2017. Its organizers are Roscosmos and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia together with the Tomsk State Pedagogical University, the TPU, and the Tomsk State Television and Radio Company.

June 17, 2021, the Minister of Education of Kuzbass paid a business visit to the Tomsk State Pedagogical University. The purpose of the trip was a meeting with the rector and students of the university on issues of training and employment.

In the business part of the program, the Minister of Education of Kuzbass S. Y. Balakireva, Head of the Department of Education of Kemerovo City Administration N. Y. Dashkovskaya, Chairman of the Committee of Education and Science of Novokuznetsk City Administration Y. A. Solovyeva talked with the rector of the TSPU A.N. Makarenko, Vice-Rector for Youth Policy and Educational Work D. B. Nasonov and Advisor to the Rector of the TSPU, the rector of the Tomsk Regional Institute of Professional Development and Retraining of Teaching Staff O. M. Zamyatina. Also S. A. Pfetzer, Deputy Minister of Education of Kuzbass remotely took part in the conversation.

The common theme was the discussion of interaction and development of optimal ways of preparing teaching staff for the Kemerovo Region. Indeed, the Tomsk State Pedagogical University has a significant number of applicants from Kuzbass: it takes second place following the Tomsk Region, which is the leader in the number of applicants. Despite this, it is no less important to develop a clear understanding of the purposeful demand from the Kemerovo Region: what teachers does the region need more, what training programs should be launched or optimized at the university in this regard, in what formats training of Kuzbass applicants can take place.

Later on, the visit program included an open dialogue with the Tomsk State Pedagogical University's students, who came to study at the university from Kemerovo Region. The main questions which were raised during the conversation were: what trajectories of future professional self-determination the students were considering; readiness of the students to return to their home region after graduation; what should be done to make a wish to work in the pedagogical field in their native Kuzbass a priority. The Minister of Education of Kuzbass and her colleagues told about the changes which are taking place in the region: construction of new schools according to the modern standards, growth of teachers' salary which now reaches 40 000 thousand rubles, readiness to provide young specialists with accommodation and many other things. During the conversation, students raised questions about the chances after graduation to work in the departments and offices of education; about the problems of teachers in small towns, where the infrastructure is not developed enough and there are problems of cultural development and leisure; about the importance of raising the prestige of the psychologist in educational institutions.

Of course, a short meeting could not be called comprehensive in terms of answers to the questions raised, but by the decision of both sides it was the beginning of an open dialogue about the cooperation between the Ministry of Education of Kuzbass and the Tomsk State Pedagogical University in terms of teacher training, and with students - about what should be done to make each of them, coming from big and small towns of Kemerovo Region, to return to their homes to teach. At the end of the meeting, students of the TSPU and representatives of the Ministry of Education of Kuzbass exchanged contacts in order to return once again to an open conversation about how to attract graduate teachers to their native region.

The materials of the VI International Scientific-Practical Seminar "Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language: Theory and Practice", which was held in Tomsk in November last year, have been published in the ninth issue of the Yearbook of Eastern European Studies (Wroclaw, Poland). The scientific event was organized by the specialists of the Center for Russian Language, the Department of International Cooperation (TSPU) and the Foundation "Institute of Professional Development" (Poland, Wroclaw). It was attended by specialists of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University as well as foreign undergraduate and graduate students of the university.

The Yearbook of Eastern European Studies is an international interdisciplinary journal devoted to humanitarian research in the field of history, literature, anthropology, politics, and culture of Eastern Europe. The journal is included in the international citation databases of Central and Eastern European Online Library and the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). Specialists and foreign students of the TSPU had the opportunity to publish the results of research projects.

In their research, the university representatives spoke about the discursive approach to teaching a foreign language; studied the uniqueness of business etiquette in Chinese culture, spoke about the problems of speaking at the lesson of Russian as a foreign language in the Chinese classroom, noted the typological differences between Russian and Chinese phonetics, considered the textbook as a means of forming a language picture of the student and more.

The publication of the seminar materials was made possible thanks to the publishing and educational activities of Irina Popadeikina, Ph.D. in Philology and History, graduate of the Faculty of History and Philology, and Rafal Chahor, Ph.D. in Political Science, enthusiastic scholars and creators of the successful and promising scientific and educational project "Institute for Professional Development Foundation".

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On June 8-9, the Pedagogical Forum of Russian Professors Assembly was held based on A. I. Herzen State Pedagogical University (Saint-Petersburg); the Forum was titled "University in the Epoch of Pedagogical Innovations". More than 450 people attended the forum. The Tomsk State Pedagogical University was represented by L. G. Smyshlyaeva, Vice-Rector for Development, and N. A. Semenova, Director of the Institute for Development of Teacher Education. A. N. Koshechko, Professor at the Faculty of History and Philology was the speaker at the forum.  Among the online participants were director of the Physics and Mathematics Center of the TSPU M. A. Chervonny, Head of the Institute for the Development of Pedagogical Education of the TSPU L. V. Kurovskaya, associate professor of the Institute of Foreign Languages and International Cooperation E. B. Petrova and experts of the Department of Strategic Communications and Information Policy.

The forum began with a discussion "Who Are You, the Modern Professor?". Forum experts discussed the changes that are happening today in the professional activities of professors, in particular the function of the professor in the conditions of transformation of universities, and considered the main factors influencing these changes. During the dialogue, the participants in the discussion shared their views on some topical issues: what has changed in the work of the contemporary professor? Is the professor's research activity the most important factor in ensuring the quality of higher education? Have shortcomings and risks appeared in the professor's professional activity?

Representatives of universities paid a lot of attention to the new digital format of educational activities. Opinions about the partial transition to "distance learning" are divided: some support the introduction of new technologies in the learning process, while others do not always find it effective and stick to traditional forms of knowledge transfer. However, according to the organizers of the discussion, "it is important to understand which of the best traditional practices should be preserved, and not to lose the experience, passing it from generation to generation. At the same time, experience and tradition should be skillfully and competently combined with the existing opportunities of digitalization, innovative and experimental practices.

At the meetings, the following topics were raised: education in the university (general cultural development as the basis for education, the experience of organizing educational activities); the need for language competence of graduates (markers of language educational space, professional communications in the language training of students, the formation of communicative skills); the current state, problems, and prospects of improving the certification of scientific personnel (ways to improve the quality of theses and dissertations).

Within the section "Digital education: opportunities and risks" speakers discussed the issue of distance learning for students with the use of technical and digital tools: the main trends and prospects of development of the market of digital learning technologies, the use of digital education technologies in training master's degree, tools to increase student motivation in online learning.

The report "Cognitive and psychological processes in online learning: pedagogical risks and opportunities" was presented by Professor Anastasia Nikolaevna Koshechko, Doctor of Philology, Director of the International Scientific and Practical Center of Axiology and Methodology of Spiritual and Moral Education of the TPSU. The expert outlined the main points: online learning as a new educational reality, the specifics of cognitive and psychological processes of subjects in online learning, pedagogical risks and pedagogical opportunities of online learning, the portrait of the teacher, and effective communication strategies.

Among the strengths of distance learning, the speaker highlighted the creation of individual educational trajectories, the possibility of a wide choice of tools and materials (photo and video files, audio recordings), psychological comfort, and others. However, under the conditions of the new norm, there is a change in cognitive and psychological processes as well as specifics of pedagogical activity. The new reality in which a modern teacher has to work has its own risks: emotional burnout syndrome, the problem of digital transformation of pedagogical consciousness, the complexity of unification of real and virtual educational environments, a different culture of communication, inaccurate perception of information. The biggest problem is seen in the last point: it is an inaccuracy of perception of information that leads to a decrease in the level of knowledge and academic performance due to the loss of ability to analyze and concentrate. In addition, in her speech, the professor identified the peculiarities of online communication: disconnected and clip way of thinking, a high degree of anonymity, and contact globalization.

According to Anastasia Nikolaevna, the new image of the teacher, which includes new formats of leadership, can help overcome these risks. As an example, the speaker mentioned her educational projects, implemented in the virtual environment: the interactive dialogue "Evening tea with Anastasia Koshechko", the open online group "Reading as a way of life" and others.

The forum will be closed with a plenary session, which will take place on June 9 from 10.00 to 14.00 Moscow time. The reports will be devoted to the social mission of the modern university, the transition from pedagogical institutes to anthropological universities, discussion of the modern teacher's portrait, the problems of implementing new research and educational directions, the national traditions of university training in the innovative development of higher education system

The educational program of the All-Russian student competition "Your move" — ​​a new project of the presidential platform "Russia — the country of opportunities" was held yesterday within the walls of the Tomsk State University. The initiative to choose the TSPU as ambassadors and participants of the competition in the Siberian Federal District was made by 17 students and leaders of the student government of the university: the first plans have already been proposed.

The seminar brought together activists of student communities, young professionals and scientists, representatives of creative and sports youth.

“I am going to the competition to gain new experience, improve communication skills, learn to find a common language with different people, and convey important information to the target audience in an interesting and informative way, — says Anastasia Nacharova, student of the Institute of Childhood. — The events of the meeting were unusual, especially the final game: we were in the role of artists, interact with other teams, agreed, exchanged materials. As a result, we got one big picture, consisting of nine parts. This format helps to understand that we are all part of one big team, and the result depends on each of us".

Classes were conducted by invited trainers from different cities of Russia. Dmitry Andreevich Buinitsky, head of the youth policy department, talks about the advantages of participation in order to attract as many students as possible to the competition.

“The main task now is to recruit a team that will promote information about the competition through posts on social networks, stories about directions, opportunities, and prospects for participation. This is necessary in order to inform students about the project in detail and to motivate them to participate. The more our students respond and register, the higher the chances to win".

Registration of participants is organized on the website твойход.онлайн and will last until June 12, 2021. The winners will receive grants in the amount of 1,000,000 rubles for training, launching a startup, or improving housing conditions. Of these, 50 top winners will be awarded additional grants in the amount of 2,500,000 million rubles, which can be spent on the development of their faculty or university. The best contestants will travel through Russia and receive internships to the country's leading companies.

The regional stage of the Russian national award "Student of the Year" has come to an end in Tomsk. Students of the TSPU presented the university in individual and collective nominations: "Social activist of the year", "Student media of the year", "Chairman of the Council of students", "Volunteer association of the year". In the treasury of the TSPU's achievements, students have brought two victories and a prize place!

The long-awaited results of the regional stage were announced on May 14. The victory in the individual nomination "Chairman of the Students' Council" was won by Karina Pendyak, a student of the Faculty of History and Philology. The first place in the nomination "Student Media of the Year" was won by the TSPU TV team. Volunteers of Pedagogical became the second.

Now the winners will take part in the all-Russian stage of the award, which will take place in the Tomsk region in November.