Smolny Institute of the Russian Academy of Education is a higher educational institution. It is located in the Leningrad region. Previously, the institution had the status of a university. The Smolny Institute (address: 59 Polyustrovsky pr.) Is currently considered one of the most respectable educational institutions in the country.
Historical information
The Smolny Institute was created in 1998 at the suggestion of Academician N.D. Nikandrova, who is the president of RAO. This organization is the founder of the described institution. Holding company "Electroceramics" became its strategic partner in the implementation of the university in 2004.
A few years later, the Smolny Institute of the Russian Academy of Education appeared. The decision was made by the Presidium of the State Academy of Education together with the board of directors of Electroceramics. The resulting project has several advantages. The creation of such a complex made it possible to arrange another experimental site for the implementation of innovative ideas. At the same time, there is the possibility of transforming a company from a highly specialized to a multidisciplinary one. This can be achieved by using the intellectual resources of the academy and attracting the most talented young people. Increasing the efficiency of the holding will provide new people who will be involved in the production activities of the company.
The purpose of the scientific and pedagogical complex
Smolny Institute performs many different functions:
1. Scientific.
2. Research.
3. Educational.
4. Educational.
5. Publishing.
6. Educational.
The complex includes various faculties. Among them are the following areas:
1. Economic.
2. Service.
3. Humanitarian.
4. Information technology.
5. Art criticism.
6. Security.
7. Cynology.
General information about the Faculty of Economics
It was founded at the end of the 20th century. Each year, various specialists are invited to develop the scientific and educational activities of the faculty. Among them are leading domestic economists from research organizations, various fields of business and government. The faculty includes two departments. The Scientific Council is its highest governing body. It includes the following links:
1. Dean.
2. Deputies.
3. Heads of departments.
4. Teachers who have been selected as representatives.
5. Scientists.
6. Students.
Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg has its own charter. It regulates the solution of strategic issues arising in the course of the institution. Academic council is elected for daily leadership.
Modernity
Currently, the Smolny Institute is a multidisciplinary university with a flexible organizational educational system. Now the institution carries out training activities in several groups of areas. Among them are the following:
1. Social.
2. Humanitarian.
3. Pedagogical.
4. Educational.
5. Economic.
6. Management.
7. Cultural.
8. Art criticism.
9. Information security.
10. Computer Engineering.
11. Computer science.
12. Service areas.
13. Vehicles.
The institution prepares bachelors in twenty areas of pedagogy, graduates in fourteen specialties, as well as masters in information systems and technologies. The curriculum of the Institute is fully consistent with state standards of higher professional education. The institution is constantly being improved, and also organizes a number of courses in special disciplines. Fourteen doctors and dozens of candidates of sciences work in the institution. In full-time education, the number of students reaches several thousand people.
Profile
The educational structure includes the following activities:
1. Economic.
2. Management.
3. Humanitarian.
4. Information security.
5. Service.
6. Computer science and computer engineering.
7. Artistic.
The scientific structure includes the following activities:
1. Medical and social research.
2. Noospheric social studies.
3. The ecology of man.
4. Telecommunication and information technology.
The international structure includes the following activities:
1. Training for CIS countries and the Middle East.
2. Organization of symposia and conferences of international scale.
3. Creation of centers for the study of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the CIS.
The main tasks that the Smolny Institute sets itself
1. A guarantee of high quality education in popular specialties in the field of information technology.
2. Development and implementation of innovations in the educational process, the implementation of control over it.
3. Research activities in the field of telecommunications and computer science.
4. The guarantee of a continuous and unified educational process at each stage of education - from preschool to postgraduate study inclusive, moreover, in the system of one institution.
5. Participation in programs to improve the integration of national and Russian schools.
6. Contributing to the processes of forming a unified educational system in the CIS countries.
7. Training of highly qualified personnel.
Activities of the project "Education and Peace in the Caucasus"
The goal of the program is integration. The task is to create an association of universities in St. Petersburg to organize the training of students who live in Central Asia and the North Caucasus. Educational activities will be carried out under the programs of higher professional institutions of the Russian Federation. The organization plans to develop its activities in the Republic of Dagestan.
Work vector
The project has several main tasks. Among them are the following:
1. Training of local specialists.
2. Creating the necessary living conditions in St. Petersburg for residents of the North Caucasus. Priority is given to those citizens who are students of higher educational institutions of the city.
3. Creating the necessary conditions for conducting joint activities in such areas as creative, educational, sports, cultural, etc.
4. Implementation of exchange training programs in the open education system.
5. Conducting various events of stage and exhibition nature.
6. Opening of a college of female education in the Republic of Dagestan.
Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens. History reference
There is a long tradition. According to him, Empress Elizaveta Petrovna planned at the end of her life to move to a quiet monastery. Responsible for the creation of the project and the construction of the building was appointed Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. The essence of the plan was to build a nunnery on the spot where the Smolny suburban palace was located. The foundation was laid in the middle of the 18th century. The plan drawn up by the architect was expensive. At that time, the Seven Years War began, there was not enough money to complete the construction. As a result, the monastery was never used for its intended purpose. Only in 1764 was the Smolny Institute opened. Architect V.P. Stasov continued to work on the cathedral.
Developments after the death of the Empress
In subsequent years, the fate of the Smolny Monastery was in the hands of Catherine II. She decided to dispose of it in her own way. At that time in the Russian Empire there was not a single institution in which girls could study. Noble daughters received education mainly at home. At the same time, girls from poor families did not study at all. For this reason, the empress decided to open the "Educational Society" in the monastery. Thus began the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens. A special decree was issued on the issue of opening the institution. It said that the building of the Smolny Institute will now be used to ensure that women have the opportunity to receive education. In the future, they could become exemplary mothers, useful members of the family and society.