The traditional August forum "August.PRO: a matrix of pedagogical changes" is held in Tomsk. Participants include teachers and university professors, school principals, representatives of regional education authorities and the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Education. The TSPU also joined the discussion of the forum's issues, and the key speakers from the Pedagogical Center were the rector Makarenko and Vice-Rector for Development Smyshlyaeva. The changes in the field of education, new challenges of the upcoming academic year — are main topics of the forum. Among the themes proposed for discussion are "Modern school", "Teacher of the future", "Digital educational environment", "Support for families with children", "Success of every child", "Young professionals".

The experience of Tomsk State Pedagogical University - one of the leading pedagogical universities in Russia, whose graduates for 118 years have been working in schools, kindergartens, institutions of secondary vocational and additional education in our country and abroad - is demanded by scientists and practitioners in the field of education and will be handed over to colleagues in the framework of the "August.PRO".

Due to the restrictions imposed in Tomsk, the forum was moved to the digital platform of the Moscow International Educational Salon. However, as the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergey Kravtsov noted in his address to the participants of the forum, this form of work of teachers only strengthened everyone's confidence in the importance of school and teacher's work: “We began to look at many questions differently. This is confirmed by the data on admission to pedagogical universities — the demand in pedagogical profession is rising".

It is widely known in Russia and far beyond its borders that the Tomsk State Pedagogical University trains the strongest specialists in the field of education. Studying professional disciplines, the firstyear students do not forget about all-round development, participating in creative competitions, making scientific discoveries, winning sports competitions and raising the level of sportsmanship.

Maxim Ovsyannikov, a third-year student of the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports of the TSPU is a good example of this approach. His sports talents were highly appreciated: by order of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation he was awarded the title of "Master of Sports of Russia" in Universal fight.

The future physical education teacher regularly works on the development of his physical qualities: the student attends training in mixed martial arts, he is also a member of the Tomsk region team in universal fight, and in addition — the champion of the Tomsk region in army hand-to-hand combat.

Many doors are open for self-realization of TSPU students: we invite you to find youeself in science, in culture, art, sports. However, no matter what our students do, each year they win more and more awards and proudly bear the title of student of Tomsk State Pedagogical University.

Each year the Tomsk State Pedagogical University attracts many talented applicants. This year among them are the European Champions in curling with hearing impairments and the winner of the Interuniversity Olympiad in Pedagogy “First Success”.

When young people choose the place of study they take various criteria into account. And most of their requirements are found in the TSPU. Thus, Roman Serebrennikov, a member of the team of winners of the II European Championship in Deaflympics Curling, notes that the TSPU has all conditions for teaching hearing impaired people, which prompted the athlete to make a choice in favor of our university: “I live in Tomsk, I work and train here, I need a sports education. TSPU has a rather successful experience in teaching students with hearing impairments, which is why I chose this university”.

Oleg Khoroshkov, Roman's sports colleague, paid more attention to the availability of a suitable faculty and budgetary places: “In TSPU there is a faculty I need with budgetary places. Having received this education, in the future I will have the opportunity to become a physical education teacher or trainer".

The sports schedule of curlers is quite tight, because it involves daily training and trips to competitions, but young people are not afraid of the difficulties in combining study and sports: guys are sure that they can do everything, because big sport has brought up willpower in them. The TSPU diploma is a necessity for future professional development for the European Curling Champions , but Ulyana Novak, a graduate of the 29th gymnasium, winner of the "First Success" Interuniversity Olympiad in Pedagogy, study in the TSPU is a chance to continue her path in the pedagogical sphere. At school she began to think about her future profession, and her choice fell on teaching. Ulyana has long been an active participant in thematic competitions and olympiads, which gave her rich experience and new knowledge about pedagogy. Among other things, for several years Ulyana has been participated in the project of TSPU "Open pedagogical class". Thanks to it she realizerd more clearly that she wants to dedicate her life to teaching. “TSPU attracted me for several reasons. First of all, I relied on the quality of education and employment prospects, as well as the possibilities of student life, participation in various competitions, events and projects".

Ulyana is sure that during her studies at the TSPU she will become a competent teacher with high qualifications and invaluable experience. And in addition to development in the professional sphere, he will be able to realize herself and achieve great success in various fields, becoming a bright representative of the student unit of the university. She learned about the wide possibilities of student life long before admission thanks to the participation in many events: Open Day, autumn and spring sessions of the Open pedagogical class etc. “At TSPU, I would like to supervise one of the scientific or creative directions. It would also be interesting to try exchange training in other countries”, — Ulyana shares her plans.

Whatever serious requirements the entrants put forward, in Tomsk Pedagogical future students will find opportunities for the embodiment of any professional ideas and creative development. Our team is always glad to initiative young people into its ranks, to help with choosing the path, mastering the chosen business and personal advancement at the level of the city, country and world.

According to the Nature Index Ranking, which is based on scientometric data on research publications in leading world scientific journals, the Tomsk State Pedagogical University takes 16th place in the global Nature Index Ranking - Physical Sciences among the leading universities in Russia and the first — among pedagogical ones.

The publications by the TSPU scientists in top world journals is an important component of the university's image. In the period from May 2019 to April 2020, the famous theoretical physicists of the TSPU S.D. Odintsov, I.L. Buchbinder, P.M. Lavrov, I.L. Shapiro, S. Capaziello have published articles in the following top-rated world journals: Physical Review Letters, European Physical Journal C, Journal of High Energy Physics.

The Department of Youth Policy, Physical Culture and Sports of the Tomsk Region has summed up the results of the regional competition "Sports Elite". Among the winners of the competition are students of the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports of the TSPU.

The "Sports Elite" competition has been held in the Tomsk region since 1993 and is aimed at promoting the development of sports achievments. In 2020, the competition had picked 44 best athletes and coaches, as well as one national team, who achieved high results and made a significant contribution to the development of physical culture and sports in the region from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020.

The sports achivements of the students of the TSPU were highly appreciated by the Tomk region. There are international master of sports in sambo, silver medalist of the European Championship and winner of the Russian Championship Valeria Anisimova and master of sports in judo, champion of the European championship Alexandra Askarova. The athletes became winners in the nominations "Best Athlete in Non-Olympic Sports" and "Olympic Hope", respectively.

Besides, graduates of the TSPU Ilya Afonin and Turgai Mammadov (kickboxing) were honored with the nomination "Best Athlete in Non-Olympic Sports". The nomination "The best athlete in adaptive sports" was presented to the graduates of the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sportsof Svetlana Orlova and Vladimir Ulyanov (curling). Among the "Best trainers" are TSPU graduates Kirill Bazaev (kickboxing) and Konstantin Sherstobitov (curling).

The winners of the competition also included applicants to theTSPU 2020, European Curling Champions among athletes with hearing impairments Oleg Khoroshkov, Andrey Anischenko and Roman Serebrennikov. The guys were included in the nomination "Best Athlete in Adaptive Sports"

In total, over 80 applications were submitted for the competition in 2020. The commission picked the winners in the nominations: "Best Athlete in Olympic Sports", "Olympic Hope", "Best Athlete in Non-Olympic Sports", "Sports Hope", "Best Sports Team", "Best Coach" and others.

For the first time the Tomsk State Pedagogical University entered the University Ranking by Academic Performance ( URAP).

In 2019-2020 Russia is represented in URAP by 33 universities. TSPU is the only Russian pedagogical university among national research, federal and other universities included in the published part of the rating.

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The URAP is composed by the Institute of Informatics of the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey).

The URAP rating is based on six indicators:

• number of articles indexed by WoS;
• number of citations of articles published in the last 5 years, excluding self-citation;
• the total number of conference materials, articles, monographs;
• the impact factor of the journals in which the university has been published over the past 5 years;
• the cumulative impact factor of journals in which articles written by the universuty's staff have been published over the past 5 years;
• the number of university articles in the last 5 years, co-authored with foreign universities.

By the decision of the Academic Council on July 7, 2020, TSPU Rector Andrey Makarenko awarded honorary professors of the university with silver medals for Merit in Education and Sciences.

Doctor Salvatore Capozziello (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Salvatore_Capozziello), Full Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, from the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) and Doctor of Theoretical Particle and Mathematical Physics Vasilis Oikonomou (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/V_Oikonomou) from Aristotle University in Thessaloniki (Greece) have had many years of successful cooperation with Tomsk State Pedagogical University in the field of theoretical physics and cosmology.

The scientists expressed their gratitude to TSPU Rector Andrey Makarenko for the honor and thanked their team leader and mentor Sergey Odintsov, Full Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Fundamental Research and the prominent researcher in the field of cosmology and astrophysics at TSPU, for fruitful collaboration.

In 2020, the Tomsk State Pedagogical University entered the top 100 higher educational institutions of the Russian Academy accroding to the Academic Rankings of World Universities — the European standard ARES-2020.

In the overall ranking, the TSPU took 73rd place among 278 Russian universities and 2nd place among pedagogical universities of the country. The TSPU was assigned the “A” category, confirming the high quality of teaching and research activities, as well as the demand for graduates of employers.

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The international ranking of higher education institutions (ARES) has been operating for the ninth year and the number of participants is increasing significantly eaach year. The world's leading rating agencies take ARES results into account for their ratings.

In the research the following indicators are used such as scientific activity, international cooperation, the demand for graduates, informatization, international recognition of pedagogical staff, interaction with employers, membership in European Academies of Sciences, awards issued by the European Chamber of Commerce and the European Commission.

There are four marks in the ranking: A, B, C, D. Category “A” means a high level of teaching, research and the demand for graduates.

According to the results of the new international multidimensional rating of universities U-Multirank, made by the European Center for the Development of Higher Education in a consortium with a number of research organizations, Tomsk State Pedagogical University entered the top 10 strongest universities in Russia and took a leading position among pedagogical universities of the Russian Federation.

In addition, TSPU entered the top 25 universities in the world in the nomination “Regional joint publications”.

In total, among 44 Russian universities represented in the ranking, only two were pedagogical.

The Tomsk State Pedagogical University keeps on taking the leading positions among the all pedagogical universities of Russia in the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2020.

The TSPU takes the first place among the all pedagogical universities of Russia and only three of such universities made it into the rating. In the list of 136 strongest universities of Russia the TSPU took 43 place. According to the "Social phenomenon" index our university took 16th place among the all institutions of Russia.

Among the 7026 educational organizations of the world entered the global ranking, the TSPU is taking the 803 place.

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SCImago Institutions Rankings is a ranking of educational institutions and research centers from around the world. Educational and scientific organizations are ranked according to a composite indicator, which includes three groups, which are based on research activity, innovative activity and the social impact of the university.

The rating is considered one of the most objective, as it evaluates universities and research organizations on the basis of independent sources — from information from international databases over the past five years.