What do applicants want? What is our university's mission as applied to them? What is our higher education? These are the questions that the participants of the Skolkovo strategic session have pondered today.
The Skolkovo strategic session, during which the participants present results of their work on the modules of the Academic Programme Code intensive course, is organised on the territory of campus of School 21 at SUSU January 13th through January 17th.
The Code is a program for those who are focused on creating the best in their category Bachelor’s, Master’s and Specialist academic programmes. As part of the training, participants develop the design, content, logistics and management system of the program, prepare a launch and implementation plan, taking into account the market situation, the interests of industrial partners and the potential of the university.
The session started with a lecture-discussion, the speaker of which was Denis Ponomarev, the Head of project work of the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management.
“The topic of today’s strategic session is the design of a new relevant educational programme for the university. This programme should meet not only the needs of the industry, but also the needs of students in their career tracks,” said Denis Ponomarev. “The participants should ask themselves an important question: what is our university about?”
According to the speaker, the answer to this question will help understand how to design a useful and interesting academic programme.
Director of the SUSU Institute of Engineering and Technology Mikhail Ivanov, who also participated in the module, noted:
“This is a new stage in the development of our customized educational programme in foundry production, implemented jointly with KONAR Industrial Group. I have already completed this educational block and now I am here to apply all the knowledge I have gained. Now, as a large team, we are developing a unified academic programme jointly with the industrial partner; we have not had such experience before. First, we summarized and discussed everything that was done in the first and second modules, and now we are setting tasks for the third one.”
The participants of the educational course, SUSU teaching staff, were divided into six groups, each of which will present a report on intermodular work and work in the third module as part of the session.