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University rankings are a modern tool for integrating a university into the global educational space. Webometrics , one of the largest international rankings of higher education institutions, was updated at the end of January. This time the rating was compiled according to a new method: previously, universities were assessed according to four indicators, and now - according to three. The main assessment criteria are the presence of the university on the Internet and the citation of scientific…

As a part of preparation for the introductory school practice using ICT of the third year students in an educational institution GEORG-VON-LANGEN-SCHULE (Holzminden , Germany) the first online meeting took place at the Faculty of Foreign Languages on February 26. The meeting was attended by teachers of the Department of Romance and Germanic Philology, students of the faculty and German partners Michael Schindewolf, Frank Hischer and Anya Beckmann(they are responsible for the Belarusian-German…

On February 25, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy Vladislav Beizerov took part in a regular meeting of the national group of experts on higher education reform, chaired by First Deputy Minister of Education Irina Starovoitova. The event was organized by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus and the National Office of the Erasmus + Program in the Republic of Belarus. The agenda of the meeting, which was held online, included issues related to summing up the work of…

The 200th anniversary of the birth of the writer, publicist, thinker Fyodor Dostoevsky will be celebrated in 2021. This event is of great importance for the entire cultural community. In honor of Fyodor Dostoevsky's jubilee, the Department of Russian, General and Slavic Linguistics organized a program of cultural, educational and scientific events, the central event of which was the International Scientific Forum “Heritage of F. M. Dostoevsky and Contemporaneity”. The co-organizers of the…

On February 25, the Faculty of Foreign Languages of F. Skorina GSU congratulated their  partners from the L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the university. At the invitation of their Kazakh colleagues, teachers of the Department of Theory and Practice of the English Language and the Department of Romance and Germanic Philology took part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference «Foreign Language Education: Content and…

1st year students of the Faculty of History of the specialty “Language Maintenance of Intercultural Communication .International Tourism ”took part in the International Online Olympiad for students of higher educational institutions, organized by the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​of the Mari State University (Russian Federation) on the topic“ Countries of the European Union ”. The questions of the Olympiad were of a historical and cultural nature and designed to check the erudition of the…

The President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko presented doctoral diplomas and professor certificates to scientific and scientific-pedagogical workers. Among the awardees there is Professor of the Department of Radiophysics and Electronics, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Maxim Anatolyevich Yarmolenko. Maxim Anatolyevich defended the Doctoral dissertation “Formation of Polymer-containing Coatings from the Products of Target Dispersion by a Flow of…

On February 1st, in order to improve the level of training of specialists in intercultural communications, interpreters-referents at the Faculty of History of the University, a new department of Intercultural communications and International tourism began to work. To develop a new direction of activity, the teachers of the department - the Head of the Department Tatyana Viktorovna Pochinok, a senior teacher Viktoria Yuryevna Sobolevich and a teacher Tatyana Ivanovna Ostapenko, underwent online…

On February, 2 at the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy, F. Skorina GSU, master's degrees were awarded to the graduates in a solemn atmosphere. By the decision of the state examination commission 18 undergraduates of the correspondence form of study were awarded a master's degree, the specialities "Theory and Methods of Teaching and Upbringing" and "Psychology". This was preceded by a one and a half year course of study in the magistracy. The overwhelming majority of topics of master's theses…

At the Faculty of Philology, diplomas of Shanghai Industry and Commerce, Foreign Languages Institute and Skorina State University in “Russian Philology. Computer Software” were awarded to Chinese graduates for the second time. They received their first higher education degree within the framework of the integrated program. - This is already the second graduation of Shanghai Institute students who came to our university. According to the program of students’ and undergraduates’ joint training,…

“The Faculty of Physics and Information Technology will enroll students in the speciality “Computer Security”. Applicants who wish to obtain the qualification “Information Security Specialist. Radiophysicist” have to pass the CT in Physics and Mathematics, Belarusian or Russian,” Andrei Klimenko said.​ According to Dmitry Kovalenko, Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Information Technologies, the relevance of security issues in the information sphere is increasing. “It is necessary to…

Undergraduates and students of F. Skorina Gomel State University took part in the International Symposium "Student Readings - 2020", which was launched in Romania. The organizer of the symposium is L. Ye. Bezhenaru, professor of the Department of Slavic Studies at the Jassy Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. The symposium brought together the universities of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Romania and Ukraine. Head of the Department of Russian, General and Slavic Linguistics,…

On October 29, the VIII International Scientific and Practical Conference "Youth and the Spiritual Heritage of the Era: Culture, Artifacts, Values" was held online. The organizers of the conference are the Tula State Pedagogical University named after Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy and the House-Museum of V.V. Veresaev. The conference is timed to celebrate the anniversary of the construction of the Tula Kremlin, and its topics are naturally connected with the values of culture, with the most…

The jubilee X International Scientific Conference "Actual Problems of Romano-Germanic Philology and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages" was held at the Faculty of Foreign Languages on October 23. The conference brought together scientists conducting scientific and practical research in the areas of discourse analysis, comparative linguistics, linguistics and text stylistics, pragmatics, methods of teaching foreign languages, etc. This year scientists from different continents (America,…

An agreement on the opening of a branch of the Department of Optics on the basis of the Physical-Technical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus was signed on October 16. Both parties were represented at the signing ceremony by the heads of the institutions - the rector of the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University Sergey Khakhomov and the director of the institute Vitaly Zalessky. Such cooperation will make it possible to implement many joint scientific and technical…

Digital literacy is as important today as knowledge of spelling and syntax rules. Almost all aspects of our life are connected with computers, therefore it is a necessity to know the basics from the world of digital information technologies. To test digital literacy, students of the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University took part in the All-Russian Dictation on Information Technologies educational campaign on September 12, 2020, timed to coincide with the Programmer's Day, which is celebrated…