Tomsk State Pedagogical University is the oldest professional educational institution in Siberia, the successor of the Tomsk Teachers' Institute, established on July 1, 1902. Tomsk State Pedagogical University has been dynamically developing for 115 years and taking leading positions in educational ratings. Today TSPU is Russian’s leader in the sphere of teacher education, Alma mater for thousands of educators from all over the country. TSPU graduates are excellent, responsible professionals with great competence and skill in teaching. They have rightly deserved to be teachers of the new generation!

6-7 June 2017 the II Student forum of Countries-participants of The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) took place in Novosibirsk. Delegation of the History and philology faculty of TSPU participated in this event.

Various platforms were organized within the framework of the forum: scientific, practical, debating and creative, bringing together the business, educational and cultural programs. In total, according to organizers, more than 400 students, scientists, teachers and experts from the SCO countries took part in the forum.

The II Student Forum of the SCO countries was devoted to topical issues of promoting Russian higher education, strengthening positions and supporting the Russian language abroad through the potential of youth international cooperation.

The delegation of TSPU that was included in the general list of participants from the Tomsk region, took an active part in various events of the forum, first of all, in the scientific and practical conference "Actual problems of teaching methods of Russian as a foreign language" organized by the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University.

Tomsk State  Pedagogical University  was represented by Ph.D., associate professor of the theory of language and Russian language teaching methodology Tamara Borisovna Cherepanova, who presented a report "Following Sydney Lamb: language acquisition as an art (the creation of cultural and linguistic context of appropriation of the Russian language as a foreign language)" and second year undergraduates Dong Yuqing and Lee Tszinven  prepared a presentation on the theme "United Textbook in the national educational model of language training: effectiveness analysis."

The general atmosphere of cooperation and creative scientific search, allowed students and teachers not only to discuss the current topics of the Russian language as a foreign language and the problems of teaching foreign students in Russian universities, but also to get acquainted and establish new interesting contacts.

Tomsk state pedagogical university  has strentgthen its positions in a rating of Russian pedagogical universities and took the first place according to the annual natioanl raiting of the Universities.

The rating prepared by the Interfax news agency is the result of a large-scale research of Russian universities that reflects their activities in following areas: education, research, socialization, internationalization, innovation and brand. The evaluation is based on the questionnaires filled by representatives of universities, accessible public data posted by educational institutions on their official websites, public information resources of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, as well as information from the SPARK and SCAN information and analytical systems.

Based on the results of the 2017 rating, Tomsk State Pedagogical University moved up to the 50th place in the general list and took the leading place among the pedagogical universities in Russia, thus significantly improving its positions.

According to the Administration of Tomsk region «According to the rating experts, Tomsk Pedagogical University is among the universities that are distinguished by strong teaching staff, strategically thinking management aimed at finding and implementing positive changes not only in the educational and research activities of universities, but also in innovation, in the development of universities’ campuses»

Traditional Tomsk event – the International Festival of Indian classical dance "Rasamrita" in memory of Rukmini Devi took place last weekend. This year the festival dedicated to 70th anniversary of diplomatic relationship between Russia and India gathered fantastic number of guests and participants.

TSPU student of the Faculty of Foreign Languages Ekaterina Dogonovskaya decided not to stay aside. As part of the "Bharata" team (Tomsk), Ekaterina performed dances on the streets of city immersing Tomsk citizens in an atmosphere of true Indian color.

As part of the festival program, the student of the TSPU attended workshops from dance masters Mr. Ashvani Nigam (Kathak style) and Mrs. Kyoko Nobi (Bharatanatyam style), who shared their experience and gave practical recommendations to dancers.

The goal of the contest is to attract tourists to Asian cities. In order to participate one should tale a picture of one of thr 10 Asian cities (Tokyo, Bangkok, Seoul, Taipei, Delhi, Hanoi, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Tomsk), which show landmarks of a given city and emphasize the attractiveness of Asia for tourists. The photo should reflect the theme: "My favorite view (Category Landscape / View)"

Only pictures of mentioned cities are allowed.

In order to participate in the contest one should:

1. Follow welcometoasia_wta in Instagram
2. Submit an application on the web-site of the contest https://welcomeasia.jp/ipc/
3. To copy information from submission page to your Instagram account after the application was accepted.

The winners will get original bags decorated with prints of their pictures.

On the threshold of summer season and Children’s day activists of the Student agricultural team “Clover” had participated in the “Flowers of life” event. This ecological action was aimed at upgrading the territory of Teacher’s public garden. Students had been working with great enthusiasm and as a result they created a beautiful flowerbed that will bring joy to citizens of Tomsk. 

V Open Regional Festival of Robotics and Animation “Art and intellect festival”  took place in the end of academic year at Children center of educational robotechnics. The festival offered several groups to participate: "Animation" and "Robotics", within the framework of which there were RoboRally competitions, P.L. Chebyshev Olympiad in Robotics, RoboSkazka, II open regional exhibition of scientific and technical creativity "Samodelkin", as well as a competition of projects.

At the festival, young inventors presented their robots, assembled and programmed to perform certain operations. After answering theoretical questions, the participants, with the help of mechanical friends tried to overcome the obstacles of rough terrain and competed in the capture the flag competition. Traditionally the forum was attended not only by children, but also by their enthusiastic parents. 

The annual student contest of Slavic song took place at Wroclaw University and as usual student of Tomsk state pedagogical university have participated in this event. This year first year student of the faculty of foreign languages Marianna Kovyreva has participated in the event on behalf of our university. For the performance of the Cossack folk song "Not for You ..." Marianna was awarded with the main prize of the Department of Culture and Art of Wroclaw and the highest award of the International Department of the University of Wroclaw. In total for the contest, 15 vocal numbers were presented in Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Czech.

The dean of the TSPU Faculty of foreign languages ​​Alexandra Valerievna Guzeeva and the associate professor of the TSPU Artem Konstantinovich Kollegov have become the guests of the contest. Guzeeva has presented a memorable gift from TSPU for the best performance of the song in Russian to student of Wroclaw University Alicia Dyrda. Artem Kollegov has performed the romance "Everything As Before" out of competition with rector of the Wroclaw University, Professor Adam Yezersky accompanying him on piano. 

Paola Carolina Moreira Delgado has become the first student from Brazil who have passed testing in Russian as a foreign language at Tomsk state pedagogical university and received an official state certificate of proficiency in the Russian language. Paola has received the document from the Vice-Rector for International Affairs Konstantin Osetrin.

Paola came to Tomsk within the scope of an exchange program between the TSPU and the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil to study theoretical physics at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the TSPU. In addition to the exam in Russian she is preparing to exams in her main subject. 

Paola is a very creative person; she sings and plays guitar on her YouTube channel

The final stage of city’s contest “First steps” took place on the 16th of May in the Palace of creativity of children and youth and according to the tradition TSPU has become a supporter of this event. 25 young teachers from elementary schools of Tomsk have become participants of the contest. We were happy to know that 4 out of 5 finalists of the contest were graduates of TSPU. The main objective of the contest is to increase prestige of teaching profession, to attract young specialist to schools in conditions of disastrous lack of pedagogical staff at schools.

The final tests included three competitions: "My professional discovery", "To children through creativity", "Solution of the pedagogical situations". In scope of the first stage, the contestants have told about discoveries that they made during their activities: the importance of joint affairs, the importance of stage adaptation, the impact of books on the development of the child, etc. In the second contest, participants have demonstrated their creative abilities and hobbies, showed how they use them in professional Activities. And, finally  the solution of pedagogical situations, taken not from dry textbooks, but from feature films for children,.

Petrochenko Darya Andreevna, a graduate of the Pedagogical Faculty of 2015 has become the winner, the second place was taken by Anna Rasskazova, a graduate of the Pedagogical Faculty of 2010, the third place by Svetlana Savelyeva, a graduate of the History and Philology Faculty of 2012.