The 10th meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation between the Russian Federation and the DPRK took place in the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Pyongyang. During the meeting, the parties discussed the expansion of cooperation in various fields, including education. The event was attended by the Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Public Relations of the Ministry of Education of Russia Usman Rassukhanov.
Within the framework of the event, an Agreement on cooperation and interaction was signed between the Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University and the Kim Chol Joo Pedagogical Institute.
Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Public Relations of the Ministry of Education of Russia Usman Rassukhanov noted the importance of signing the document to deepen cooperation between Russia and the DPRK in the field of education.
“The signing of an agreement on cooperation and interaction between pedagogical universities of Russia and the DPRK will give impetus to the holding of events within the framework of joint projects and will facilitate the exchange of students in the field of linguistics, psychology, pedagogy and natural sciences. In addition, under the agreement, universities will be able to send philologists to promote Korean and Russian languages and, of course, exchange the best pedagogical practices,” Usman Rassukhanov stressed.
Russian Russian Russian Russian Ministry of Education Department Director invited the representatives of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to consider the establishment of a Center for Open Education in Russian and Russian Language Teaching in the DPRK, as well as to identify a school on the territory of the DPRK for testing in-depth study of the Russian language and teaching general subjects in Russian. Usman Rassukhanov said that the Ministry of Education of Russia already has similar experience in Mongolia and a number of other countries. Russian teachers have been working in the first grades of school No. 162 in Ulaanbaatar since September 1 of this year, and the educational organization has begun a gradual, 12-year transition to Russian teaching standards.
In addition, Usman Rassukhanov drew the attention of foreign colleagues to the project of the Ministry of Education of Russia “Russian teacher abroad”, which can also be implemented on the territory of the DPRK. Russian Russian teachers teach Russian language and subjects in Russian in schools in Vietnam and Mongolia, Serbia and Turkey, the People’s Republic of China, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Cuba and Syria, Egypt and Ethiopia, India and Madagascar.
The Director of the Department of the Ministry of Education of Russia invited the North Korean side to develop joint projects to send students of the DPRK to study under secondary vocational education programs in Russia.
