Tatarstan President meets with winners of school Olympiads
9 June 2014, Monday
On June 9, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with winners of Russian and international subject Olympiads and their teachers at the Regional centre of education quality monitoring. Tatarstan Minister of Education and Science Engel Fattakhov took part in the meeting.
Before the meeting Rustam Minnikhanov looked around new building of the Regional centre of education quality monitoring.
Tatarstan President noted importance of work with participants of Olympiads starting from the 4th form. He asked leadership of higher educational institutions to interact closer with pupils and their teachers. Tatarstan leadership is interested in stay of talented children in Tatarstan, and we should pay more attention to education, Rustam Minnikhanov said.
Pupils and teachers thanked regional leadership and personally Tatarstan President for attention and support. One of proposals made at the meeting was holding of the international chemistry Olympiad in 2016. Rustam Minnikhanov supported the idea and asked certain agencies to deal with this issue.
Rector of Kazan Federal University Ilshat Gafurov told that special conditions are provided at the university for participants of Olympiads, including the opportunity to finish first higher education in short terms, and enhanced scholarships.
Summing up, Rustam Minnikhanov congratulated the winners of Olympiads and their teachers, and presented awards and commendations to teachers and tutors, and a certificate for bus purchasing to the Regional Olympiad centre, and certificate for 1 million roubles to the Regional centre of education quality monitoring.
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