UNESCO delegation presented «Task Force on Teachers» program in RUDN
The delegation comprised Director of the Institute of Information Technologies in Education of UNESCO Mr. Tao Zhan and Ms. Natalia Amelina, Head of professional teachers’ training and network cooperation section. Mr. Edem Adubra presented the program «Task Force on Teachers» where he told about the tasks of the program, management structure, defined the main directions of the educational policy in the field of teachers’ training, the role and degree of participation of individual states in the implementation of the program, the procedure and conditions for its financing, the format of the supposed participation of the Russian Federation in the program.
At the end of the meeting with the teachers, Rector of RUDN Vladimir Filippov received UNESCO delegation. The parties exchanged their points of view on the problems of teachers’ training, re-training and refresher training. They also discussed the possible format and directions of cooperation between RUDN and the Institute of Information Technologies in Education of UNESCO, including in the framework of the «Task Force on Teachers» program.
10 profile officers of the Korle Klottey Municipal Assembly from the city of Accra (Ghana) are being trained at the school "Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy" of the Institute of Environmental Engineering of RUDN University.
RUDN University is to train 100 specialists in Agronomy and Ecology for Ghana at the request of its industrial partner, the Jospong Group, which unites 60 companies. The number of trained personnel will amount to over 600 within 5 years. The fields of study which are of interest to the partner include Agronomy, Information Technology, Applied Nature Management, Ecology. The company is ready to pay for travel, accommodation and scholarships for these students. RUDN University will accept students within preferential rights.
The delegation of the Republic of The Gambia led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Mamadou Tangara visited the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Members of the delegation met with Rector Oleg Yastrebov and the staff of the Agricultural and Technological Institute of RUDN University, went on a tour of biotechnological laboratories and a laboratory for studying soils chemical composition and properties.