Day of Arab Culture was held at South Ural State University. Representatives of ten countries introduced the audience to the history and traditions of the Arab world and gave colourful performances.
Day of Arab Culture is one of the unique events at SUSU which aims to strengthen international collaboration among the representatives of different countries. Rector Aleksandr Shestakov told us that next year the university will be able to accept even more international students.
A meeting with representatives of the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa took place at South Ural State University. The delegation included the Minister Plenipotentiary of the South African Embassy in the Russian Federation, Henry William Short, and Secretary of the Embassy’s Political Division, Bender Gunter.
The sixth edition of the ranking called Worldwide Professional University Rankings RankPro 2018/2019 has been published on the portal of the International Council for Science at www.cicerobook.com.
South Ural State University provides its students, academic and administrative staff with all the opportunities not only for self-fulfilment, but for proper rest as well. They can recharge their batteries being away from the hustle and bustle of the city and get positive vibes in a pleasant atmosphere at the SUSU’s “Nepryakhino” Sports and Recreation Complex, which has been functioning for more than 60 years now.
A celebration of Nowruz was held at South Ural State University. SUSU international students from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan performed their folk songs and dances and introduced the audience to the traditions of greeting spring and the New Year by the solar calendar.
February 26 through March 2, delegation from South Ural State University made an official visit to Uzbekistan. Previously, by the results of the Russian-Uzbek Educational Forum entitled “New Employees for the New Economy” which was held in Tashkent on October 18 and 19 of 2018 and featured Presidents of both Russia and Uzbekistan, a final resolution has been published. This resolution states the necessity to establish branch institutions of Russian higher education institutions in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
South Ural State University took part in the 4th Annual National Exhibition and Presentation entitled “EXPO – 2019 Russian Educational Exhibition” held in the capital of Mongolia, the city of Ulan Bator. Represented at the Exhibition were leading higher education institutions and secondary vocational education institutions of Russia.
On March 15, a ceremonious awarding of winners of Russian language contests took place in Sigma academic building. Students from China got awarded with certificates and memorable prizes.
In 2018-2019 academic year, students from People’s Republic of China took part in four Russian language contests: Russian Writing Contest, International Online Olympiad on Russian as a Foreign Language, a contest of projects called “Russian Language in the Sphere of Digital Transformations”, and a photography contest called “Russia and China: Country – Language – Culture”.
On March 21st a celebration of Nowruz will be held at South Ural State University. The attendees will learn about the traditions of the Turkic peoples and will see the performances by SUSU international students in national garments.
Nowruz is the most important holiday of the year for many nations in Asia celebrating the coming of spring and of the New Year under solar calendar. It coincides with the vernal equinox, which falls on March 20th-21st every year, and symbolizes the beginning of new life and nature rejuvenation.
On March 11th a meeting was held at South Ural State University between the representatives of the Consulate of the Republic of Kazakhstan and students who came from Kazakhstan to study at our university.
The delegation members included Konysbek Zhusupbekov, Consul of Kazakhstan in Omsk; Anuarbek Rambekov, consular assistant; and Kanat Seitikov, Chairman of the Chelyabinsk Regions Public Organisation of Azamat Kazakh Public Centre.
What is Maslenitsa, and what traditions it includes? International students of the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language of the Faculty of Pre-University Education have learned all the specifics of celebrating the week of bidding farewell to winter.
February 14th through 17th of 2019, representatives of SUSU for the first time took part in an international exhibition called INDONESIA INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION & TRAINING EXPO in the city of Jakarta of the Republic of Indonesia.
South Ural State University took part in exhibitions on International Education in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
The International Education exhibitions are large-scale events targeted at development of international cooperation in the sphere of education as well as on providing young people with the possibilities to get high-quality education abroad.
On March 7, on the eve of International Women’s Day, a tea ceremony will take place at South Ural State University. Association of International Students and International Office invite everybody to taste different sorts of tea from South Asia.
South Ural State University has a Brand Studio – a store of brand items with the university’s logo. SUSU international students got familiar with activity of the Studio and competed for prizes.
South Ural State University has more than 2000 international students from 52 countries around the world. It is often that after their graduation that international students buy souvenirs before returning to their home countries.
Association of International Students supported by International Office holds a Competition among the students. The participants have an unusual task – to create a cover for a graduate photo album. It is worth noting, that the photo album is intended primarily for the foreign graduates.
South Ural State University is actively developing international collaboration with universities of the near abroad. On February 13th–14th a delegation from D. Serikbayev East Kazakhstan State Technical University visited SUSU.
A celebratory concert was held at South Ural State University’s Activity Hall on February 4 on the occasion of Chinese New Year. In Chinese culture, the New Year (Chun Jie) is translated as Spring Festival and is the most traditional and important holiday of the Celestial Empire; the holiday has been existing for more than 2 000 years. This holiday is annually celebrated at SUSU: students from China prepare artistic performances as well as perform national songs and dances.
Project-based learning at School of Medical Biology develops within the project entitled “Development of efficient technologies of grain disinfection”. Starting from January of 2019, a young researcher from India – postdoc Bagale Uday Dasharath – has started his research within implementation of Project 5-100 at SUSU.
Within implementation of project-based learning, the Department of Linguistics and Translation at the SUSU Institute of Linguistics and International Communications together with Russian Electric Motors (REM) JSC is launching an educational project entitled “Linguistic support of manufacturing processes”. Implementation of the project is scheduled for academic years 2019-2021.
The ceremony of opening the Ural International Integration Centre was held at South Ural State University in a roundtable discussion format on January 28.
South Ural State University gathered directors of public associations and national cultural centres of the Chelyabinsk region, representatives of religious associations of the Southern Ural, and jurisprudence experts in the sphere of migration legislation.
Indian Council for Cultural Relations offers scholarship programs for the citizens of Russia within the frameworks of the exchange for the 2019/2020 academic year.
South Ural State University, being a member of the project on competitiveness enhancement of the top Russian universities among the world’s leading research-and-education centres (Project 5-100), pays much attention to working on improving its standing in international and national university rankings.
South Ural State University is collaborating with many partner universities all around the world. On January 28th, the major university of the Chelyabinsk Region started its cooperation with Namangan Engineering-Construction Institute, Republic of Uzbekistan.