Department of international cooperation together with historic and philological faculty of TSPU organizes Spring school of Russian language and culture for students of two Japanese fellow universities from Tokyo and Hiroshima (National women university Ochanomizu and Hiroshima university)

During three weeks (from 20 of February till 11 of march 2017) Japanese students under guidance of TSPU specialists will improve their skills in Russian language and find more about Tomsk, Russian culture, Russian history and customs.

On the final day of school there will be presentations and performance of Russian folk tale by Japanese students.

We invite you to visit this event, which takes place on 10 of March 2017 at 14.00 at the following address: Komsomolsky prospect, 75 room 335.

Postgraduate student of Tomsk state pedagogical university Martiros Khurshudyan (scientific adviser A. N. Makarenko) had received an «Aykyan-2016» award for achievements and contribution in science of Armenia. Martiros Khurshudyan won in the nomination of “The best youth scientific achievement of 2016”

Aykyan contest was created 16 years ago in order to encourage talented young people involved in various fields of activities. The ceremony took place on 24 of February 2017 in the Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet named after Alexander Spendiaryan. The awards were presented to prize-winners by the president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.

Student of the Tomsk state pedagogical university Valeria Anisimova has won a golden medal on the Russian sambo championship.

400 competitors from 52 regions of Russia had participate in the event that was held in town of Vyksa in Nizhny Novgorod area. One of the best results was shown by student of the Faculty of Sports and Physical culture – Valeria Anisimova, Master of Sports of Russia, repeated winner and participant of All-Russian and international competitions. She had won a golden medal in the category of 64 kg. According to results of these competitions the Russian team will be formed that will take participation in Europe and world championship.

Postgraduate student of TSPU Van Xinhua (China) has taken the second place on the All-Russian competition in Russian language for foreign students which was held at Ural state economical university on 21 of February 2017.

According to organizers, students from 67 universities from 50 different countries had taken part in the competition. This event was organized with the support of the “Russian world” Foundation to enhance the efficiency if language training and realization of creative potential of students.

Student of the Tomsk state pedagogical university has shown spectacular results and taken the second place by surpassing more than 200 competitors.

According to the results of international rating of Universities’ web-sites  Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics 2016) the web-site of Tomsk state pedagogical university was included  in top 100 Universities of Russia and took 32 position. Among all the pedagogical universities of the world TSPU is taking 3 place and 1 place among Russian pedagogical universities. Link to the rating 

Specialists of the Russian Venture Company and the Association of Communicators in Education and Science compiled the list of the leading scientific and educational institutions of Russia regarding the quality of communication activities. On the basis of the analysis of open sources of objective parameters - such as the availability of the website, publications in mass media, management of social networks, the availability of specialized professionals or dedicated communication service etc., they have selected leading organizations in the field of communications from more than 1,500 universities and research institutes of Russia and TSPU was rightfully included in the list.

10-th Anniversary Regional scientific-practical conference of schoolchildren "I am studying nature", organized by the Centre for additional physical and mathematical and science education of Tomsk State Pedagogical University, was held within the walls of the university 12 February 2017.

The conference was attended by around 200 students from 1st to 11th grade from 32 educational institutions of Tomsk, Tomsk region and Kemerovo. This year, there was a  record-breaking number of sections - 14, the leaders of which were teachers of Tomsk State Pedagogical University, teachers of city schools, as well as assistants - students and undergraduates of TSPU, TPU, TUSUR, Siberian State Medical University. Schoolchildren made reports on different topics. It should be mentioned that the number kids interested in science is constantly rising as well as quality of their reports

As part of the intellectual activities there was also held an exhibition-festival "Science for Children", where educational institutions have shown interesting exhibits and experiments for children. Exhibition-Festival always takes place very lively and does not allow young scientists, as well as their parents to get bored while waiting for the start of the conference.

This year the following TSPU structures were involved in exhibition: Children's center for educational robotics, Museum of Information Technology, Department of Mathematics Education, Department of General Physics, headed by one of the organizers of the conference, A. R. Arzhanik. Students under the guidance of experienced teachers have demonstrated experiments, training computer programs and games. 

The project by Tomsk State Pedagogical University “Sibege” was mentioned in the analytical report made by Higher School of Economics, dedicated to online-services for school students in Russia.

The program developed by specialists of TSPU allows pupils to get a free online-preparation for Unified State Examination in Math, Physics and English. The lessons are conducted by students from various faculties of the University as well as by teachers of Center for additional physico-mathematical and natural education of TSPU.

“Free services (as online-courses Sibege) attract children from low-income families that can not afford private tutors. Representatives of such category among the users of free services can estimates up to 40% ” – says the website of Higher School of Economics.

To the advantages of TSPU "Sibege" project one can add a brand new approach to the training of teachers: students (future teachers) try to conduct their first lessons, have an opportunity to look at themselves from the side using video recording and evaluate their work. Along with students the lessons are also conducted by high-level teachers.

TSPU specialists involved in “Sibege” have specific targets for the next year: one of them is to increase number of online-lessons with participation of students and best teachers of the University.

On the eve of Russian science day, on 7 February the governor of Tomsk region Sergey Zhvachkin has congratulated newly elected academicians, corresponding members of Russian Academy of Sciences and awarded a number of scientists.

Larisa Germanovna Smyshliaeva, doctor of pedagogical sciences, associate professor, director of  Psychology and pedagogy institute of TSPY had received decoration for “The service in educational sphere”.

“Once again I sincerely congratulate newly elected academicians and  corresponding members of Russian Academy of  Sciences as well as entire scientific community of Tomsk with the well-deserved recognition of our scientist! Today we have 46 academicians in Tomsk”, – said Sergey Zhvachkin.

On the last week the results of the fifth competition of academic and scientific literature, published in 2015/2016 – “Golden coryphaeus”, were summed up by the committee from Russian and Kazakh universities.

Associate professor of contemporary Russian language and stylistics, candidate of Philological Sciences Aleksey Vladimirovich Boltonov became prize winner in the category “Philological sciences” for his study “Text activity as reflection of communicative and cognate styles of informational and media linguistic personality”.