“I am glad that the the young leader had joined the ranks of the Tomsk rectors' team. Andrei Nikolayevich is no stranger both for Tomsk and for the pedagogical university and I am sure that he will quickly get used to his position, - said Governor Sergey Zhvachkin and then he joked - Especially with such a pedagogical surname" (Anton Semyonovich Makarenko was a Russian and Soviet educator, social worker and writer, the most influential educational theorist in the Soviet Union who promoted democratic ideas and principles in educational theory and practice).

Sergey Zhvachkin noted that the new rector and the university as a whole are faced with the difficult task of ensuring the professional continuity of generations in schools.

“Thanks to the state policy, the prestige of the teaching profession has grown significantly - both the increase in salaries and the construction of new institutions played a role. Well, who else can train the best personnel for the education sector, if not the first pedagogical university in Siberia?” - said the governor of the Tomsk region Sergey Zhvachkin.

He wished the new rector to push the university forward, to protect the traditions of the Tomsk Teachers' Institute, established in 1902 at the behest of Emperor Nicholas II.The head of the region also thanked Valery Obukhov, who had headed the university since 2000, for his great contribution to the development of the TSPU, expressed confidence in further cooperation and asked him to provide the necessary assistance to his successor.

By order of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation M.M. Kotyukov doctor of physical and mathematical sciences Andrey Nikolaevich Makarenko is appointed as the new rector of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University approved

The order of the Ministry Ministry

In the framework of the "Open Lectory" project, the Moscow State Library held a meeting with the Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of English Philology of the TSPU Zhanna Sergeyevna Anikina conducted a lecture on “Preparing an Article for a Foreign Scientific Journal: Problems of publication process".

In the course of the work, the main difficulties faced by researchers at different stages of the publication process were considered. The lecturer also commented on the mistakes often made while preparing an article for a foreign scientific journal and shared stories from personal experience obtained as an applicant for a British university degree and editor of three collections of international conferences published by Elsevier and Springer Nature publishing houses and subsequently indexed in the Web of databases Science and Scopus.

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the TSPU Zhanna Sergeevna Anikina is an applicant for a PhD degree (University of Westminster, London, UK), the founder of the Scientific and Consulting Center "Kairos" (Tomsk).

In Germany, the European Championship in weightlifting has been held. The Tomsk State Pedagogical University was successfully presented by Olga Morozova, a student of the faculty of Physical Culture and Sports, who won the gold medal of the Old World Championship in the “long cycle” exercise.

As part of the Russian team were two representatives of the Tomsk region. Both of our fellow countrymen rose to the highest step of the podium. “I am very happy for our athletes, they are just great! I hope that they will have time to recover before the championship of Russia, which will be held in the middle of this month in Kazan. There will be a qualification for the World Championships”, - said Alexey Azhermachev, chairman of the regional kettlebell lifting federation, honored coach of Russia.

Yu Fuxiao, head of the external relations department of the Northeastern University of Shenyang (China), paid the Tomsk State Pedagogical University a working visit. During the conversation, specialists from the Department of International Cooperation and the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the TSPU discussed with the Chinese colleague the issues of organization of student academic exchanges and internships for teachers, the possibility of implementing joint research projects and participating in the conference on mutual cooperation between Russia and China in September 2019.

At the official part of the meeting, agreements were reached on signing the paper on cooperation between the two universities. In addition, Yu Fusyao visited the TSPU Scientific Library with an excursion, where he watched the classes of Chinese and Mongolian student groups and left his wishes in the book of honored guests.

The VII Regional Economic Forum "T & Pro - the vector of your development" was held in the TSPU Business Incubator. This year, 12 teams from schools in the city of Tomsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo regions participated in its work. For three days, the participants underwent a rich educational program aimed at the formation of project competencies, personal effectiveness and self-determination, entrepreneurial skills.

On the first day, participants of the educational workshop learned how to solve problems and find innovative solutions, work in a team and form partnerships, maintain entrepreneurial spirit and avoid the fear of failure, create and effectively conduct a presentation. This day ended with a series of expert sessions, during which young entrepreneurs of the Tomsk shared their experience and secrets of business success with the future collegues.

During the second day, schoolchildren worked through tasks related to the development of the project: they identified the main client, set a market volume, evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of competitors, developed a design solution, calculated financial needs of the project, learned to convince partners and investors in a few minutes or even seconds.The final stage of the forum was the defense before of projects that the teams developed and implemented during the year in front of the expert jury. Pupils presented 13 works, seven of which are related to social entrepreneurship. Most importantly, each participant had the opportunity to receive feedback from experts, to hear an objective response, advice, criticism to improve their projects.

The All-Russian judo tournament in memory of Honored Trainer of Russia Slavik Gogievich Kudziev took place in Tyumen, and Alexander Askarov, and the  student of the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports of the TSPU Aleksndra Askarova won this competition.

The strongest judoists of the country from Moscow to Blagoveshchensk gathered at the sporting competition. Alexandra Askarova held four victorious bouts and won a gold medal. At the same time in the semifinals, she prevailed over the winner of the Russian championship among juniors under 23 years old Elvira Kamalova from Perm. And in the final, a TSPU student defeated a strong rival from Tatarstan, Diana Bikbova.

"I am pleased with my performance, because the rivals were very strong,- the sports news agency SportUs.Ro quotes Alexandra. - I know that in Tomsk my relatives, friends, judo rooted for me. Thank you all very much for your support! ”

From May 10 to 12, Alexandra will take part in the European Judo Cup among juniors. Competitions will be held in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas.

The team of the Faculty of Preschool and Primary Education of the TSPU won in the 10th Interregional Pedagogical Olympiad which was organized at the Gorno-Altai State University (Gorno-Altaisk city).

At the first stage of the competition, participants made reports at the Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists timed to the 70th anniversary of higher education in the Altai Republic. The team of TSPU presented the maximum number of reports in the section "Best Practices for Developing Student Potential in the Process of Studying at the University" All the messages aroused a keen interest among the listeners and were awarded with the I degree diplomas.

The following competitive tests allowed students to show their team cohesion, intellectual abilities, the ability to respond quickly and answer tough questions. All the stages of the contest were aimed not only at finding out the participants' actual knowledge in pedagogy and the state of modern education, but also at their  creative and communicative skills. Future teachers from TSPU showed excellent results and took the honorable first place.

Last Saturday, the “Call of the Spring Hunt” festival was held at the White Lake. The event was timed to the opening of the spring hunting season. Students of the Department of Economic Theory (Head of the Department - Professor V.V. Sizov) and the Center for Children and Youth Tourism of the TSPU of the Faculty of Economics and Management conducted quest activities and career guidance among the participants of the festival. In addition, students of tourist profile showed the projects which are ready to become commercial and social market products. The participants of the event highly appreciated the project and the work of the instructors-students.