"Tanechka and Vanechka are off to Africa at a run." Russian universities are racing to sign cooperation agreements with African universities.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin at the plenary session of the Russia-Africa summit сказалBranches of leading Russian universities and schools offering Russian language instruction, as well as basic subjects in Russian, will be opened in African countries. The Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov He reported that more than 70 agreements on mutual recognition of diplomas and degrees have currently been signed between Russia and African countries.
The regions did not take long to respond.
Flagship universities Rostov region — DSTU, SFU and RGEU (RINH) will interact The regional government's press service reported that Don State Technical University signed cooperation agreements with African universities and organizations. The Don State Technical University signed cooperation agreements with the Federal Agricultural University of Makurdi (UAM) and the Committee of Chancellors of Universities of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CVCNU).
Teachers Mordovian State Pedagogical University (MSPU) will be training from September Russian language of the inhabitants of Tunisia. According to Head of Mordovia Artyom ZdunovThe university and the Tunisian-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry will jointly develop inter-university ties and work to popularize the Russian language and culture in Tunisia.
Kuban State University signed cooperation agreements with two universities of the Republic of Mali - the University of Legal and Political Sciences of Bamako and the University of Letters and Humanities of Bamako.
Astrakhan universities also will cooperate with African educational institutions. Thus, Astrakhan State Medical University signed a cooperation agreement with the National University of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in the Republic of Benin. And in Conakry, Guinea, a Center for Education and Professional Competencies will be established, where applicants will be taught Russian for admission to Astrakhan State Technical UniversityASTU also entered into an agreement with the Institute of Marine Biology and Oceanography in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
I remember, quite recently, students from MIPT forced to learn Chinese, but they are stubborn and continue to learn the unfriendly (and, according to the State Duma Speaker, dead) English and the still living, but equally hostile French and German.
I wonder if they can get away with Swahili and Yoruba?
Pictured is Yakubu Ochefu, Secretary General of the Committee of Rectors of Universities of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and Besarion Meskhi, Rector of Rostov-on-Don State Technical University. Photo courtesy of the DSTU press service.
