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 | Dear colleague,
The summer heat has finally came to Moscow,
and before the quiet period starts, we would like to update you on what has
been done in spring, and what we have planned for the next few months in terms
of promotional opportunities in Russia. Please find the latest Russia Partnership newsletter below. Please
watch out for ACTION REQUIRED notices in the
newsletter.
First of all, we would like to welcome
the following UK Institutions those recently joined the Education UK
Russia Country Partnership with effect from April 2010:
The Robert Gordon
University
University of
Greenwich
Navitas
University for the
Creative Arts
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Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev launches campaign to send Russian students abroad. Medvedev
will order the government to send Russian students to top universities. "This
program will help to boost our relations with the international science,
international educational and innovative community," Medvedev said on 18
June 2010 at the St. Petersburg International Economic forum. Medvedev has made
modernizing Russia's economy his top priority and has said more than once that
raising the level of national education system and training qualified
specialists was one of the most important tasks.
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With the start of
summer, we receive more and more visa-related enquiries, so we are holding next
Visa Section briefing for students
and agents will take place on 1 July 2010 at 16.00 in the British Council
(ul.
Nikoloyamskaya, 1).
ACTION REQUIRED Please
advise your students and your agents to attend this meeting. More information
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Education UK exhibition will take place on 16-17 October
for 12th time this year. The Ritz Carlton Hotel has been chosen
to host the exhibition this time. We're very excited about this new venue,
and we hope that this event will be very successful for your recruitment.
ACTION REQUIRED You can
register for the event here. Please contact Oliver Phillips for more information.
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Along
with organizing Education UK exhibition in Moscow, British Council is going to take a stand at the Regional
British Education exhibitions organized by ICIEP (Dr Sergey Kulik), on the
14 and 19 of October in Kazan and St. Petersburg respectively. More information is available on ICIEP's website.
ACTION REQUIRED If you are not going to be there
but would like us to distribute information about your institution please
contact Tatiana Shashkova.
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| Russia PArtnership meeting
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Next Russia Country Partnership Meeting will take place right after the
exhibition in Moscow, on the
18th of October at the BC office. The details will be announced in
September. The presentation from the last Partnership Meeting which took place
in London on 23 March 2010 can be found here.
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In
February-April 2010 several lectures and
workshops run by the representatives of UK institutions were held at the
British Council Moscow. The video
materials from these events are now being finalized and will be sent to the
universities who made the presentations for approval shortly. We have received
positive feedback from the universities as well as from those who attended the
events. We've also talked to online resources devoted to international
education (e.g. begin.ru, egemetr.ru, studyabroad.ru), and they are interested
in placing the links to the videos on their websites (subject to institutions'
final approval).
We believe it is a good promotional
opportunity and plan to continue such lectures and presentations. To improve
the promotion next academic year, we are going to promote workshops among
Russian schools and universities who have relevant study programmes and
expressed interest in raising their students' awareness
of the educational opportunities in the UK, thus engaging wider student audiences.
ACTION REQUIRED It is best
to position this as a series of events, so in order to put together a schedule
for the coming year please let Tatiana Shashkova know by 31 August 2010 if you would be interested in being part of such a series of
seminars/workshops/lectures, when would be the best time for you to come (an estimate will do at this stage) and what topic you'd like to cover. September and October will be
quite busy for you with the start of the new academic year and for us with the
preparation of Education UK exhibition, so please consider November
- 1st half of December 2010 and February - April 2011.
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There will be more educational fairs taking place in
Russia in the new season in 2010-2011. You can find the full list here.
If you're interested in the events organised by the Begin Group, let us
remind you that as British Council partners you're entitled to 20% discount on all their services.
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| online training for agents
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Each year we run Education UK Online Training for Agents. The qualification is designed for agents and
individuals providing abroad
education counseling. The course develops the candidates' ability to
provide high quality information, resources and services to students
seeking education in the UK. The course also develops their skills to
source relevant information and update their knowledge about studying in
the UK.
We ran the training between March and June 2010, and the final examination
was sat on June 21. 18 representatives from various agents of
Moscow, including 1 participant from St Petersburg, 1 from Krasnodar, 1
from Rostov-on-Don and 4 participants from Nizhny Novgorod took part in
examination. The papers are now assessed, and the certificates will be
awarded at Education UK Exhibition in October. Each certificate is
assigned to the individual, not to the agent, and is valid for 3 years.
Next training course for agents will be run in 2011. If you have any
questions regarding Agents Online training, please contact Valentina Orlova.
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We're starting new collaboration project with web portal ucheba.ru. This is a popular website for students who look for information on educational opportunities in
ACTION REQUIRED Please complete the form that you
can download following the link above and send it to Tatiana Shashkova by 26
July 2010.
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| "Studying abroad" magazine
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We're now preparing articles on UK education
for
publication in the "Studying
Abroad" magazine, a specialized yearly publication for grown ups and
children planning to continue their education abroad (circulation:
5, 000
copies). The magazine is distributed among visitors of the International Education Fair held
yearly in Moscow, St.-Petersburg and Kazan and through other channels.
ACTION REQUIRED If you're interested in writing an
article and feature your institution, please email Tatiana Shashkova. The deadline
for article submission is 13 August 2010.
More information on the possible content is
available here.
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Thank you for reading this newsletter. If you
have any comments or questions about these or any other issues, please contact Tatiana Shashkova.
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