Tomsk, 22 Jun – Regional information company "Tomsk", Taylasheva Helena. the Number of foreign students in Tomsk state university (TGU) exceeded two thousand following the results of the past academic year, nearly 500 of them – from foreign countries. Why to the Singapore technicians Russian why "generation of 1 thousand euros" it is necessary to live in Tomsk and as the French chemists will help to get to higher education institution to world TOP 100, Regional information company "Tomsk" were told by the vice rector for the international activity of TGU Rykun Artem.
to– past academic year (2017/2018) we taught 2292 foreign students, from them from foreign countries – 480. Till last year the number of students from foreign countries annually increased twice, now dynamics decreased: we rested against a ceiling in places in hostels. But this problem will be solved by the end of 2019 when we will start a new hostel which is under construction on Arkady Ivanov Street, in 200 meters from "Sail".
on the other hand, additional inflow of foreign students will be created by our new directions. For example, there was the first group of Vietnamese on the specialty "computer safety" that we achieved long ago. Since 2019 for the first time in the history of TGU at us the small group of the Chinese students, five people will study music.
– They will study according to any special program or together with all?
– Training at us is calculated on five years, it will occur in the general group. In it there is some problem: receipt in Institute of arts and culture on the specialty "art of concert performance" assumes behind shoulders even not music school, and muzuchilishche. These are rather high requirements. From abroad come with lower level.
byBut as it is the market very perspective (in China training in mastery), the management of Institute of arts and culture and personally Sotnikov Vitaly (the art director of a choral chapel of TGU – the Edition) is very demanded considered that it is better to enclose more than forces in "not holding out" foreign students, in addition with them to be engaged, but to tread a path to Asia.
– What specialties now the most popular in TGU at foreigners?
– the economy and management Institute Obviously is in the lead, there about 30 Asian students now study. Other leaders – Institute of applied mathematics and computer sciences, istfak (office of the international relations). The European students – linguists and specialists in Russian philology – on the whole arrive on philological faculty and faculty of foreign languages.
– Popularity of computer sciences is still more or less clear – in Tomsk really is to that to learn in this area. But why to them economic education to Russian Federation?
is it is connected with the general great demand on economic managerial education around the world: business management, finance and credit, especially everything that is connected with accounts department, because on these experts very great demand on a labor market. At normal quality of educations at us quite competitive prices therefore people also go to Tomsk.
One more moment influencing popularity of economic specialties, – foreign entrants are guided by self-employment, want to take more active position on a labor market. For this purpose it is necessary to know how to operate business how to be the manager. And textbooks on management everywhere identical …
Now TGU offer U them was directly a wish – to arrive in the winter because the summer and in Singapore is. Remained are very happy! And level of Russian at Nanyan's students the highest.
– And why to them in general Russian?
– Singapore is a largest technological, logistic, financial center Asia. It is the city-state in which the Chinese ethnic group plays huge role. In due time the group of rich Chinese businessmen created two universities – National university Singapore and Nanyansky technological which always enter in top-20 the best higher education institutions of the world.
They prepare forthe Chinese business elite which is focused on work abroad. Therefore it is quite logical that such good market as Russian Federation, causes in them interest.
the Second moment – Singapore reached now to such an extent intellectual developments that his inhabitants began to attract and esthetic aspects: original European culture, literature, style.
– generally yes, from interest to the Russian culture. Recently to me the student from Czech Republic came – she has ideal Russian: accent, any speech mistake! Eight years taught it independently, simply as a hobby.
But for someone it and opportunity to find a job. For Southern Europe it is very burning issue. There is such term – "generation of 1 thousand euros". Such is the sum of initial salaries the university graduate of university to Italy, Spain, Greece (and in the countries Eastern Europe this minimum is even lower). It is not enough, considering life cost there. And this employment is not guaranteed to them.
A here they, having the European labor ethics which favourably they distinguish, can settle on comparable money, and thus the cost of accommodation will be significantly lower.
– And them our Russian reality, its household party first of all does not confuse?
– Now the Russian reality not especially differs from the European. When students come to Tomsk, they are surprised that we have same network supermarkets, is pure on streets, normal roads.
withtheir another Confuses – that in shops and state institutions people are afraid to speak with the person who is badly speaking Russian. Do not try even to speak, come into contact.
withFor the help in these and other situations the whole service of adaptation of foreign students works for us. For example, there is a service when the curator is assigned to the foreigner from among the Russian students who will accompany him everywhere until it is required. By the way, in Lenin's our region – the Moscow path, in principle, the personnel of shops and cafe adapted: with foreigners learned to speak somehow, words or gestures.
– as a whole you can tell, what TGU in the world know?
– it is unambiguous – know, and any more only in Europe and Asia, but also in Latin America. On internationalization, for example, we enter in top-150 higher education institutions.
– Internationalization is after all not only number of foreign students? What enters this concept?
– Besides number of being trained foreigners, estimate an image of university outside, popularity in scientific, political and the business circles, the developed interface, involvement of foreign scientists, joint foreign researches and programs of training, communication and the publication (first of all academic, instead of media) in foreign languages.
B each of these points we successfully move ahead. For example, at us programs of joint preparation with such great universities, as Himi Paritek (Chimie ParisTech) in Paris – superelite chemical higher education institution where all Curies worked, or Ekol Politekhnik (École Polytechnique) – the strongest engineering school continental Europe work.
U us extensive diplomatic contacts: the other day there was an ambassador China, two weeks ago – the ambassador Iran, a month ago – the ambassador of Indonesia. When guests are longer time, we find out how they see us. From here I can tell, what image of TGU developed in the world: it is midsize, dynamic, very creative university with history. Qualitative, European level.
– Tell honestly, whether a real task – to get to TOP 100 of world ratings in 2020?
– On subject ratings – yes. Krom of QS and Times Higher Education (THE) which are chosen as target and in which we step by step move ahead, there are ratings less commercialized and more respected in the academic community.
It, say, the Shanghai rating of ARWU, we there too are, and on metallurgy (new materials) we enter in top-150. New materials are in what SFTI (The Siberian physics and technology institute), our chemists, physics are engaged. The old, checked direction. But is also new which everything would be desirable to bring to world level, for example, that is connected with program engineering. It will be worth a lot.