Rustam Minnikhanov: Two international educational schools to open in Elabuga and Kazan

On August 15, at a plenary session of regional August meeting of educational and scientific workers “Tatarstan: education of innovative region” that was held in Bogatye Saby village (Sabinsky region, Tatarstan), Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that we should analyze the situation with outflow of active young people from the republic today.

We spend much money on education, provide conditions for development of educational system and adoption of innovations, take major efforts on establishing resource centres for staff training and professional development, he added. The President noted that material and technical facilities of higher educational institutions are being improved.

Tatarstan President thanked federal centre for help in modernization of educational system. At the same time, migration of active young people from the republic takes place. “Young people are leaving Tatarstan, which means we are not working efficiently enough to make them stay in the republic,” the President said.

“We should think about making regional programme of staff training and professional development “Algarysh” more efficient, so that our young people can study in Europe, USA and China, because it is a connecting link for integration into global economy,” Rustam Minnikhanov noted. As a positive example of such activity Rustam Minnikhanov mentioned cooperation between Tatarstan and Carnegie Mellon University, establishment of IT University “Innopolis” and Russian-German Institute in cooperation with Kazan National Research Technical University.

Tatarstan President also informed participants of the event about opening of two international educational schools in Elabuga and Kazan.

According to Rustam Minnikhanov, we should study every day, continuous education is the requirement of the present.

“Future success of Tatarstan is in its human resources,” the President summarized and thanked all teachers for their work.

State awards of the Republic of Tatarstan and Russian Federation were handed to best educational and scientific workers at the end of the plenary session.