A PricewaterhouseCoopers presentation was held at the Russian New University (RosNOU). After the presentation senior students of Finance, Management and Economics Department were tested. There were several tests arranged in stages.

As a result six prospective graduates who showed the best results were offered their first jobs at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

There was held an open tender within the framework of the Federal Objective Program «Scientific and Educational Staff for the Innovative Russia» which is to be accomplished in 2009 — 2013. The winner of the tender acquires the right to make government contractual work to carry out research activities for state needs. The results of the tender have been recently summed up.

The Russian New University (RosNOU) begins to enroll students for a new speciality, «Nanotechnology Management».

This speciality vocational training is arranged with the view of training staff for the companies that apply nanotechnologies, produce and sell science intensive and high-end advanced technology products.

The Russian New University (RosNOU) hosted a delegation of People’s Republic of China headed by Chjan Civen, the director of the Consulting Centre of Educational Services of Xian.

The delegation became familiar with RosNOU’s faculties, curriculums, innovations in the field of medicine and nanotechnology.

The visit of the Chinese delegation resulted in signing an agreement on students exchange between RosNOU and the Consulting Centre of Educational Services. The agreement will be realized during the coming academic year.

On the 3 of July the Russian New University hosted a delegation of “Moscow International School of Translation And Interpreting”. The delegation came to discuss a preliminary agreement on strategic partnership between RosNOU and MISTI.

The Russian New University (RosNOU) hosted a delegation of Wallsall College. The delegation visited the RosNOU College on 1 through 4 of June. Robert Grant, director of Department of Teaching and Methods and Cooperation Development, and Alan Lawrence, head of the International Department of the British college, came to examine RosNOU college students participating in a joint tourist program and to discuss the prospects of further cooperation.

It was in 1946. The Great Patriotic War came to the end and the first nuclear bombs already exploded in Japan. Russia needed scientists and there was a brisk demand for physicists at the time. On November 25, 1946, the Faculty of Applied Physics of Moscow Lomonosov State University (MSU) was established by the regulation of the USSR Council of Ministers.

The Committee for Education of the Russian Federation State Duma, Russian Free Economic Society and International Management Academy summed up the results of the competition, in which Economic Departments of many Russian universities took part.

The competition was to determine the best economic departments of Russian higher education institutions.

More than a hundred governmental and non-governmental universities of Russia were engaged in the competition.

The commission estimated the results of these universities’ activities in implementing education programs for economics at the Russian higher education institutions. They also considered what the universities were undertaking to improve methodology, research and education activities of their teaching stuff with the aim of making better the quality of training specialists.

As a result, the Economics Department of RosNOU was declared the winner of the competition in the “Economics” nomination.

The UNESCO Russian Commission expressed their thanks to Vladimir Zernov, rector of RosNOU, for the participation in the “Scientific and Education Satellite”, a project under the auspices of UNESCO. The commission included RosNOU together with other “well-known Russian Research-and-production Space Centres” into the list of co-executors of the Russian project proposal sent to UNESCO.

In view of prospective cooperation the UNESCO Russian Commission suggested that the Russian Committee of the UNESCO International Program should locate its headquarters at the Russian New University.

A conference of European Association of Higher Education (EURASHE) took place at the University of Economics in Prague on May21-22. The name of the conference was “Cooperation for Innovative Development of Europe: Higher Education, Enterprises and Regions”.