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On March 21, 2013, 34-year-old Valery Nikolaevich Falkov was elected the rector of Tyumen State University, the oldest and most advanced university in the Tyumen region. Falkov agreed to give his first major interview to the Tyumen magazine, and not within the walls of his native city, but in Skolko in Moscow, where he was at that time under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

The rector of Tyumen State University suggested that at first just take a walk and inspect the building of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo. At the same time, he joked: "It is not with her that the scandals of the last year are connected, but with the Skolkovo Foundation, which is not even located in this building."

- What are you doing here? - I specified.
- I study. The Ministry [of Education and Science of the Russian Federation] selected several people from universities in different regions (at the level of rector and vice-rector) and gathered here for a special program, where we are taught modern technologies for managing the development of educational institutions. Walk, so to speak, in step with the times. During the year, a variety of experts spoke to us, and literally tomorrow we are defending group projects - the results of our work throughout the year.

Valeriy Gut: What system of personnel training is needed by society and the state at the present stage of their development?

Valery Falkov: This is one of the key issues in the modern higher education system. The existing model of higher education was formed during the Soviet era. At that time, for those goals and objectives, it was undoubtedly one of the best in the world. But that was in the second half of the 20th century, in a rigidly centralized state with a planned economy. The cardinal changes that have taken place over the past 25 years in the world and in Russia require profound transformations from higher education. In Soviet times, universities carried out a specific mission - the provision of personnel for the sectors of the economy in accordance with the planned assignment. Today it is impossible to train personnel within the framework of such a system for many reasons. First of all, no one can predict how many and what kind of specialists the country will need in five to ten years. The world is changing rapidly, technology is developing at a revolutionary pace. During the period of study at the university, specialties appear, which at the time of admission simply did not exist. This means that at the initial stage, it makes no sense to prepare students for narrow programs. All the same, many of them, even within the framework of one professional trajectory, will have to change several specialties in their lives. In this regard, the emergence in Russia of a level education (bachelor's and master's degrees) becomes understandable - this is a response to the challenges of the time, and not a whim of officials. In the 21st century, university graduates face slightly different requirements: they must be as adaptive to changes as possible, be able to quickly retrain and retrain other people, be able to work with large amounts of information, know at least one foreign language well, and have the skills to work in interdisciplinary teams.

Taking this into account, what indicator of the university's performance should be considered the main one? Employment of its graduates in the specialty?

Of course, it must be taken into account, but only with a certain degree of convention and in conjunction with other factors. Universities are often reproached for their inability to train personnel that are in demand by the labor market. At the same time, the demand, as a rule, is measured by the number of graduates working in the specialty. One cannot agree with this approach, if only because a lot of professionally successful people are employed outside their specialty. But they took place and perfectly realized themselves in life! I agree with those experts who propose to consider the volume of total taxes paid by its graduates during the first three or five years as another indicator of the quality of the university's work. However, it can hardly be the main and only criterion, since graduates of pedagogical institutes, by definition, will be inferior to their peers from oil and gas universities. And it's not about the quality of education - the level of average wages in these sectors of the economy varies significantly. At the same time, there are areas where the size of wages is not a determining condition for success. Much more important is the public recognition of a person (for example, politics or the activities of non-profit organizations). The difficulty is in how to develop a mechanism for assessing the success of universities through this indicator. Thus, the quality of the university's work can be assessed through a system of interrelated data: employment of graduates, including in their specialty, the total amount of taxes paid by them during a certain time, and the level of their public recognition.

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Falkov Valery Nikolaevich

Was born on October 18, 1978 in the city of Tyumen. In 1995, he graduated with honors from the Novoseleznevskaya secondary school of the Kazan region and entered the law faculty of Tyumen State University.

In 2000, he graduated with honors from the Institute of State and Law of the Tyumen State University. In 2003 he defended his Ph.D. thesis ahead of schedule.

After defending his thesis, he worked at Tyumen State University as Deputy Head of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law, Deputy Director for Academic Affairs of the Institute of State and Law, Vice-Rector for Additional Education and Branches, First Vice-Rector, Director of the Institute of Law, Economics and Management, Acting Rector of Tyumen State University. At the conference of the labor collective on March 21, 2013 he was elected rector of Tyumen State University.

Head of the Tyumen City Branch of the Russian Bar Association. Deputy of the Tyumen City Duma, Chairman of the Commission for Urban Planning and Land Relations.

How do you assess the development of Tyumen State University?

Despite all the difficulties of the post-Soviet period, the university was confidently moving forward. In the most difficult periods, in the conditions of political and economic "turbulence", in my opinion, the right strategic decisions were made. However, time does not stand still, and today we (by the way, like most Russian universities) find ourselves in a crossroads of challenges: globalization, a reduction in the number of applicants, a transition to new production technologies, an essential renewal of educational activities itself. In order to respond to these challenges, it is necessary to determine the optimal trajectory of development, taking into account national and local characteristics.

What university does our region need?

The Tyumen region has been developing very dynamically and comprehensively over the past 10 years. It occupies a leading position in Russia in terms of investment attractiveness, the quality of public administration and the provision of public services, the volume of housing construction, the development of social infrastructure and many other indicators. Such a region needs a university that can not only promptly and adequately respond to the challenges of the time, but also get ahead of them. Ideally, it should become one of the drivers of economic growth. TSU has a good history and great potential, but in order to fully match the level of the region, we still have a lot to do. Our educational programs and research topics need to be more closely aligned with the needs of the regional economy and the labor market. The university should be included in all significant projects implemented in the region. In the long term, the region will not be able to compete with other territories without a progressive system of higher education.

Why are some universities successful and others not? What does it depend on? And what is your formula for success for Tyumen State University?

The main driving force behind a university on its path to success is its people - students, faculty and staff. We all see how the competition for human resources, for intellect, is getting tougher. The coming years will be decisive as the higher education system has entered an era of dramatic change. Which of the universities will get ahead and who will remain the outsider will depend not only on the desire of management teams and the will of the collectives, on their focus on success and transformation, but also on the ability to attract talent to the university, on a well-thought-out personnel policy. In recent years, the work of our team has been aimed at achieving the most important strategic goal - to become a national research university. And it is not so much about formal recognition by the state as about an essential transformation. This goal for Tyumen State University has no other long-term alternatives.

If a graduate becomes a rector of a university, then he still retains a certain influence of the system in which he was formed, so he is unlikely to be able to significantly reform it. What do you think about this?

There are no perfect options, everything has its pros and cons. So it is in this case. A graduate-rector is a product of the system, and it is often difficult for him to abandon the stereotypes existing in the university, to “step over himself” in making decisions that are urgent but unpopular in the team. For a while, the authority of his predecessors dominates him. It is easier for "Varyag" in this respect: he is not bound by obligations either with the collective or with the previous leaders. He can do everything from scratch. However, “his” rector is a bearer of traditions, he knows well all the intricacies in the university, the history of relations between the people working in it, and this helps in making the right decisions. Ultimately, everything depends on the person. There are many examples in history when graduates of universities became their successful leaders or, conversely, did not live up to expectations. As well as rectors from outside.

With what feelings did you take up this post? What tasks did you set for yourself even before the election?

Changing a university rector is often very painful. There is no need to look far for examples; it is enough to refer to the experience of our colleagues from neighboring regions (for example, the Kurgan region). Therefore, my first task was to maintain the dynamic development of the university and social tranquility in the team. As for the feelings, they are difficult to convey. By the time of my appointment, I had a very definite vision for five to seven years ahead: administrative work in the largest structural unit of the university (Institute of Law, Economics and Management), preparation and defense of a doctoral dissertation, implementation of a number of interesting educational projects ... What happened - like a snowball on your head. Well, after that there was no time to talk. It was important at least to keep all the specified parameters. What is a university? A huge amount of routine work, daily decision-making, not even strategic, but tactical, but they still need to be taken, because if you do not do this, then very serious problems can arise. The university has one peculiarity - it accelerates for a very long time and slows down slowly. In other words, once it has picked up speed, it is difficult to quickly change course. You are already pulling off the stop-cock, and it will fly in pairs for another year. You know, there is a big difference between the acting and the rector already. This is a completely different level of freedom in decision making. The responsibility is the same, the ideas may be the same, but when you are acting, there is not much you can do. Your position is like on ice. And it's very easy to have a dialogue with you. Because you are on a slippery surface and try not to take a single careless step. You are standing on the ice of a frozen lake, and everyone is watching whether you crash or not. (Laughs.) And some do not just look, but provoke you to various kinds of administrative pirouettes. As soon as you are elected rector, you move on to a solid surface. That is, in fact, the whole difference.

Probably, the expectation of grandiose changes is associated with your arrival. Do you think your age in your current position is a plus for your job or a minus?

Rather a plus. Of course, I do not correspond to the classical image of the rector: gray-haired, over 50 and over, with large horn-rimmed glasses. But on this score, I have never been complex and do not have a complex, so now, live in someone's formats? The state today has a very positive attitude towards young leaders and young people in general. And the Tyumen region is unique in this sense. If you look, we have a lot of young politicians and managers. So age, on the one hand, is not a guarantee of success, but on the other hand, and not an obstacle to achieving meaningful results. Young people have advantages - a fresh look, a desire for change. Of the minuses - the lack of experience and often the desire to make a decision as soon as possible in a young age, but I try to often consult with knowledgeable people, not to rush and measure every step. While I'm in no hurry. The university is a very conservative structure. Here you should "hurry slowly", find a middle ground. It will not be possible to improve everything at once, you need to choose the right priorities.

Ted Turner, founder of CNN, said this: "My father told me: always set a goal so high that it cannot be achieved in one life, and that way there will always be something ahead." Do you have any global task that, having taken the post of rector, would like to put so far ahead that, perhaps, even your energy, no matter how long you have been in this post, would not be enough to solve it?

All universities in Russia can be roughly divided into three categories. The first is 14 selected by the state, which have been tasked with becoming one of the top 100 universities in the world - they have already been nicknamed "cosmonauts." We are not one of them. The second category includes about 350-450 universities, between which there is a fierce competition. It is in this category that we must take a leading position. The third category, about 20% of the total, is "ballast" - educational institutions that issue diplomas without the proper quality of education. They will be closed in the coming years.

In your opinion, where is Tyumen State University today?

There is no universally recognized university rankings to answer this question with confidence. All universities are divided into technical, classical, medical, agricultural, federal, national research. But in general, I know that today there is a group of universities that, according to any ratings, are among the 25 best in Russia. It seems to me that we are getting closer to this, but have not yet entered the list. And I would like our university to become one of the leading in Russia, not in terms of ratings, but in its essence, in terms of quality. In fact, this is a serious life mission. On the one hand, it is very difficult, on the other, it is feasible with a competent approach, concentration of forces and consistency in work. Of course, this is not a one-year task, and it should not be associated only with the position of the rector. Why? Because it is obvious that rectors come and go, but the university remains. And it is not only as a rector that one can contribute to the advancement of the university. This, probably, often consists of wisdom: to find such a niche in order to actively help the university without being a rector. Both before the rector's office and after it.

The Tyumen region has been developing very dynamically and comprehensively over the past 10 years. It occupies a leading position in Russia in terms of investment attractiveness, the quality of public administration and the provision of public services, the volume of housing construction, the development of social infrastructure and many other indicators.

When I was studying at Tyumen State University (since 1998), Gennady Kutsev (rector of Tyumen State University from 1992 to 2007 - Ed.) Constantly told us that we are already in the top ten universities. Was it so?

I repeat once again, it all depends on the ratings, so Gennady Filippovich was right in his own way. The fact is that even today I will find you a rating, where we are in the top five: there are statistics. This is how you look at it. But we ourselves know that we are not yet in the top ten and, probably, we have never entered. Now I will name 10 universities that are stronger than Tyumen State University by definition: Moscow State University, St. How can we compete with them? We simply do not have such a concentration of intellectual, organizational and financial resources and never have. This means that we need to look for a unique development model.

Can this be applied to other Tyumen universities as well?

Of course, each of them had, are and will have different stages of development. Now, when the focus is on the leaders and the best will have to become even better, and the worst will either lose themselves or simply vegetate, - in such conditions, entering not even the top ten, but the TOP-25 of the leading Russian universities is already a super task. But it is not set to satisfy personal ambitions. The boundaries of the university are the region. Moreover, the region in a broad sense, the whole of Western Siberia. And the region cannot be strong with a weak university. This is nonsense, a short-term growth model. It is good that there is a strong leader in the region in the person of the governor: he will pull out. So what is next? What is it in 10 years, in 15? You don't have to think that we are the smartest and most successful here. At the same time, one cannot say: what difference does it make to us whether there is a university here or not? That's impossible. There is no good university - there is no environment for the reproduction of new generations of leaders who have the desire to live and work in the region.

What can you say about the position of universities in the 1990s?

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, higher education was left to its own devices. On the one hand, the decentralization of management, incomprehensible rules of the game in a transitional economy, and on the other, a large-scale demand for higher education. And universities began to survive, to look for the optimal trajectory of development in conditions of total underfunding. This is how branches, "jurisprudence", "economics" and "management" appeared wherever possible and impossible, including technical and agricultural universities, metropolitan cities and northern villages. At the same time, all reasonable people understood: if the number of universities increased, but the number of teachers did not, then they would have to pay with something. So we still pay "according to the Hamburg bill" - the quality of education. We will get out of this situation for another 10 years. It seems to me that in the 1990s, higher education saved the country from revolution: universities were the place where many of the flaws in school education were smoothed out, a worldview was formed, and young people adapted to life. At least, it somehow saved the guys in that "gangster" period. I entered the Tyumen State University in 1995, in the prime of the “crimson jackets”. Everything could have turned out quite differently, if I had not got to the university.

Will Tyumen State University ever be able to compete with Moscow State University?

By our birth, we cannot compete with Moscow State University. You have to be aware of this. It is stupid to set a goal for yourself to become the best university in Russia. Why? Because, by definition, there are no such resources. But we are capable of becoming the leading regional university of the country, providing personnel and scientific support to the dynamically developing economy of the Tyumen region.

What did you learn at SKOLKOVO?

To be successful. SKOLKOVO is criticized a lot - and in vain. They say: "So much money has been wasted by the state." But we are with you at a private business school. In general, there is a good atmosphere for creativity here. The first thing I got for myself at SKOLKOVO was an absolute understanding of the current agenda in the education system in particular, and in general of where the world is heading ... I learned a lot of new things at SKOLKOVO; very good world-class specialists. The program was intense. Much before I did not understand so deeply. Let's say I didn't have a clear idea of ​​where higher education was heading in the world. That is, intuitively, I imagined, but now I have a clear understanding. They are trying to "look beyond the horizon" and find answers to very difficult questions. As a matter of fact, they are trying to move away from the routine and make a leap forward for 30-50 years. Or at least 20.

What about the globalization of higher education?

This is one of the obvious trends that have the most direct impact on the Russian education system. It is naive to expect that the world's leading universities will never come to our region. They will come! Have already come, look how many children (the best of the best!) Study in foreign universities. And this is just the beginning. The demand for distance education through online courses is being formed. The implications of this for our education system can be significant. The second trend is digitalization. Live communication cannot be replaced by anything, but from year to year we gradually transfer more knowledge not verbally, but in electronic format. Today it is important not to memorize anything, but to be able to quickly navigate the information space, to work with “accumulated complexity” - constantly growing data arrays, between which a correlation is established. And finally, the third trend is the pragmatization of education. Many argue about this, someone calls it sad for education, but bachelor's degree, especially in its applied format, is nothing more than pragmatization. Business does not need people who talk about a ray of light in a dark kingdom.

A good university cannot be democratic in terms of admission. We have already taken the first steps by introducing a real competition even for paid places in the most demanded areas of training

Applied competencies are in demand today. Hence the pragmatization. And here it is important: if higher education does not teach this, then corporate universities will. Unfortunately, this will inevitably lead to a change in the essence of university education, which has always been valued for its fundamental nature and universality. We are now seriously thinking about how we can level the costs of this process. Today, one of the main topics is the consolidation of the university. Is this a trend? If this is possible, what universities can be affiliated with Tyumen State University in the future?

The inclusion of two pedagogical universities (Tobolsk and Ishim) in the university is a serious challenge for all of us. This is a kind of intellectual challenge, primarily for management teams. The simplest thing is to change the sign. But this is not our way. To introduce new approaches to management, to obtain a fundamentally different quality of education, to change the very attitude of teachers to their work - and these are the tasks we face - we need to work hard. We have not yet missed our chance. There is time.

10 years ago, I witnessed the irreconcilable ideological enmity of the Tyumen State University and the State Oil and Gas University. Something has changed?

Those were the times of Kutsev and Karnaukhov. These are people who have always competed with each other, and this rivalry was reflected in universities. The situation has changed. We have a very constructive relationship with Vladimir Novosyolov. And today we both understand that we need to think about something else - about what is happening outside our region and how we can jointly compete with other universities. There is an important goal: to create a brand "Tyumen education" and attract the most talented and prepared from other territories to the region. And it's better to think about it together. But the dispute about which university is better, who has more students, who has attracted more funding, can lead to the fact that talented students will leave the region. Of course, there is healthy competition for the student between us, it is useful.

Still, Tyumen State University is more considered a humanitarian university. How do you plan to develop technical areas and do you plan?

This is our priority for the coming years. A classical university is not a liberal arts education. For example, there is a medical faculty at a classical university in Voronezh. He is at RUDN University and at Moscow State University. In general, let us recall the history of the formation of a classical university - this is the Faculty of Medicine, theological, philosophical and legal. But it seems absurd to us in Tyumen that a classical university can have humanities, medicine, and technical fields. Therefore, we are still comprehending for ourselves the possibility of creating a polytechnic school, on the basis of which the training of elite engineering personnel will be carried out at the request of specific enterprises. Our strategy is to develop harmoniously. We are not going to be a pedagogical university, but we will not remain only humanitarian. We will develop the technical component, especially since we have elite areas of training - bioengineering, biotechnology, technical physics ... There are some groundwork. But this does not mean that all of this will be implemented tomorrow. We will do technical education according to modern standards.

Man, as one of the modern classics said, is a fundamental possibility. We must help every student to realize himself in countless opportunities

What scientific projects, designed for implementation in the future, are already being implemented today?

It is difficult in Russia today with world-class scientific projects. And Tyumen State University is no exception. There are not so many scientific reserves in general in the region and in the Tyumen State University, in particular. This is problem. It seems to me that we have prospects in the field of ecology: applied technologies are associated with waste processing. I cannot say that they are replicated or unique, but, nevertheless, there is experience of work and interaction with oil companies. We have good groundwork related to the analysis of water quality, but not with a primitive analysis at the level of the sanitary and epidemiological station, but with the processes taking place in the ecosystem of the region. Research has been carried out in the field of anthropogenic impact on the natural environment.

TSU has a very strong reputation as a classical university. Many call it the best. Do you think it is necessary to change something in the marketing policy of the university now?

Necessary. And a lot. I believe that the word "best" is dangerous and raises questions: with whom are we competing? If we say that we are the best university within the region, our graduates occupy such and such positions ... Wait! Did we have a real opportunity to compete with someone within the region? If we became the best in Russia, and our graduates would work in the Governments of Tatarstan and St. Petersburg - this would be a success in a real competition. And we are talking about a region where we are practically monopolists. In any case, in the field of training personnel for public authorities. The Oil and Gas University prepares specialists for the fuel and energy complex enterprises, and it is just as proud of this. The Medical Academy provides the region with specialists in its field. And he is also proud of it. And all our universities need to cooperate and go beyond the region in order to compete with the education that is given in Yekaterinburg, for example. We must learn to compete together in foreign markets for talents and resources.

Is it difficult to enter your university?

A good university cannot be democratic in terms of admission. We have already taken the first steps by introducing a real competition for paid places in the most demanded areas of training among applicants - jurisprudence and economics. This allowed us to select the best and, I hope, the most motivated. This year we will go further and extend this practice to other areas of study. The principles are the same in the magazine, and in restaurants, and at the university: select the best and not sell your brand. I think this is an integral part of the marketing policy. We will focus on full-time education and diversification of educational programs, without skewing towards the most popular areas. We are thinking about reducing admission to correspondence courses and seriously improving distance education. But these are plans for more than one year, they cannot be implemented overnight.

What is the most important task of the university?

The university should educate a person with a certain system of values ​​and an individual picture of the world. Man, as one of the modern classics said, is a fundamental possibility. We must help every student to realize himself in countless possibilities. With what results will Tyumen State University come to its 100th anniversary? Wait and see. The university began to change, in five to seven years it will be different: completely new names will appear. And the situation is interesting because we don't even know who it is. But they will begin to see the situation in a new way. They are somewhere on the way, partly inside, partly outside the university, partly they will only be invited.

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Falkov Valery Nikolaevich

Rector of Tyumen State University.

A candidate for deputy of the Tyumen City Duma of the sixth convocation in the 5th single-mandate constituency.

“Tyumen is developing very dynamically. This is especially noticeable against the background of other cities. It is important not to lose the momentum of development. There should be no imbalance in the development of different parts of the city. Each territory has its own specifics, its own characteristic problems and prospects. Against the background of large-scale urban projects, one should be attentive to the problems of citizens on a particular street, in a particular yard. It is this combination that will allow the city and all its districts to develop harmoniously. "

BIOGRAPHY

Was born on October 18, 1978 in the city of Tyumen. In 1995, he graduated with honors from the Novoseleznevskaya secondary school of the Kazan district of the Tyumen region and entered the law faculty of the Tyumen State University.

Parents live in the Kazan region, my mother works as a district nurse at a children's clinic, and my father is the head of an enterprise.

He is married and has two sons (9 and 13 years old).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY.

In 2000, he graduated with honors from the Institute of State and Law of Tyumen State University with a degree in Jurisprudence and entered full-time postgraduate study. In 2003 he defended his Ph.D. thesis ahead of schedule.

After defending his thesis, he worked at Tyumen State University as Deputy Head of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law (until 03/01/2007), Deputy Director for Academic Affairs of the Institute of State and Law (until 10.10.2007), Vice-Rector for Additional Education and Branches (until 03.24.2011) , First Vice-Rector (until 01.03.2012), Director of the Institute of Law, Economics and Management of Tyumen State University, Acting Rector of Tyumen State University (until 04.16.2013). At the conference of the labor collective on March 21, 2013 he was elected rector of Tyumen State University.

SOCIAL ACTIVITY.

In the period from 2009 to 2011, he was elected chairman of the Council of Young Scientists and Specialists of the Tyumen Region. In order to form a search system for talented children in the region, he initiated and organized a multidisciplinary Olympiad for schoolchildren "Mendeleev". In 2011, the Council was recognized as one of the most efficiently working in Russia.

Chairman of the city branch of the all-Russian public organization "Association of Russian Lawyers" (since March 2012).

Awarded with the Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation (2003), the Certificate of Commendation from the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation (2008), the Certificate of Commendation from the Governor of the Tyumen Region (2008), the Honorary Badge of the Tyumen Regional Duma (2009).

To mods with a soul, to the city like a master!

The weekend in Tyumen promised to be hot. Several teachers of the history department of Tyumen State University announced a picket at the monument to the Students who did not return from the war.

According to the information provided earlier, the teachers were outraged by the program of uniting universities, called "5-100". So, according to the picketers, after the reform, it is planned to abolish the correspondence form of education, and also raise questions about the concept of "elite" and "simple" bachelor's degree. In addition, it was said that already now teachers are being evicted from service apartments into a kind of "dormitory to be demolished." They also talked about the possible sale of the sanatorium "Solnyshko", which is located in Tuapse, as well as the base "Maksimikha" on Lake Baikal, belonging to the university.

The teachers' picket did not go unnoticed, the leadership immediately reacted to the public protest - the rector of Tyumen State University Valery Falkov rushed to work on the day off. But here the most interesting thing awaited - the picket initiators refused to proceed to the White Hall of the University to meet with Valery Falkov in order to discuss all the claims. Thus, it took place between the leadership of the university - Valery Falkov, Olga Zagvyazinskaya and journalists. The questions raised by the picketers had to be asked to journalists, and the university administration willingly commented on all the teachers' claims.

- Valery Nikolaevich, please comment on the information about the eviction of some of the university staff and teachers from their service apartments. This is true?

- Firstly, we have no official apartments. There are only hostels. Secondly, the hostels need to be overhauled. What is "overhaul"? This means that it is impossible to live in this building during the renovation. Therefore, we offer temporary relocation to our other hostels. Another thing is that, say, from a hostel on Krasin Street, not everyone agrees to move to a hostel on Pirogov Street.

— Is it true that the sale of the Solnyshko sanatorium and the Maksimikha base is planned?

- Both the sanatorium and the base are under the jurisdiction of the Federal Property Management Agency, and even if I wanted to sell them, it is impossible, since I do not have such rights.

- The picketers talk about dividing the bachelor's degree into “simple” and “elite”. What does it mean?

- You probably understand the word "elite" in the social sense, and I mean the scientific one. That is, it is "elite", for example, because some of the lectures will be held in foreign languages. In the "simple" bachelor's degree, all lectures are provided only in Russian. That's the whole difference.

There was also a question about the abolition of extramural education. It turned out that the enrollment is planned for the next academic year, that is, the "part-time" at Tyumen State University remains the same.

Thus, it turns out that all the information provided by the picketers is untrue. Now it becomes clear why they did not come to the White Hall to ask their questions to the rector personally. By the way, Mr. Falkov shared his bewilderment with journalists: according to him, he met with the collectives of the institutes that are part of the Tyumen State University, and there were no prerequisites for holding protest actions.

It should be noted that an application for an event near the monument was submitted on behalf of the entire team of teachers of the Faculty of History. However, only two people came to the picket. This can hardly be explained by the day off or by the irresponsibility of other teachers. Rather, hysteria is caused by other reasons. But it was not possible to find out them - by the time the meeting with the rector was over, the picketers were no longer present.

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TYUMEN, September 14, IA UralPolit.Ru. The editors of UralPolit.Ru received an open letter from the teachers of the Department of Mathematical Analysis and Theory of Function to the rector of Tyumen State University Valery Falkov. They ask for clarification on four points: workload norms, teacher choices, curricula and targets.

At the university, the correspondent of "UralPolit.Ru" was told that after receiving the appeal, the teachers of the department met with the rector Valery Falkov, and a written answer was given to them at the end of last week. Tyumen State University Press Secretary Elena Druzhinina commented to UralPolit.Ru on all four claims of teachers.

Load rates

In their appeal, the teachers of the Department of Mathematical Analysis and Theory of Functions write that "For 2016–2017 academic year, by order of the rector No. 181-1 of April 28, 2016, the norms of hours of classroom load were significantly increased due to a significant decrease in non-classroom load. As a result, at the Department of Mathematical Analysis and Theory of Functions, the number of hours of study load decreased to 12 rates. If the calculation of the number of bets is carried out from the norm of 350 hours per bet, i.e. take into account only the classroom component, you get 18 rates. Consequently, a teacher should work 1.5 times more (525 hours) for one job. "

Elena Druzhinina clarified that the number of hours of study load decreased because the financial and economic institute refused to work with this department: "BCorrections were made - two teachers from the department of mathematical analysis moved to this institute. They are referring to the law, and under this law we have a total workload of 10,000 hours» .

Elections

The second claim concerns the tradition of competitive selection at Tyumen State University. “Recently, when holding competitions for filling a vacant teaching position, the election is carried out for terms of less than a year - three months, six months. It is not clear why, with such an outcome, to carry out the tender procedure, if, according to one of the provisions of Article 332 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federationcan a teacher work for up to a year by order without going through a competitive selection? The emerging "tradition" of such "competitive selections" gives teachers a feeling of uncertainty about the future, creates a nervous atmosphere in the team and affects the mental and physical health of teachers ", - the teachers write.

Tyumen State University Press Secretary Yelena Druzhinina clarified that the university accepts only part-time jobs without a competition and for a period of up to a year. In other cases, this procedure is required. “The university is in fierce competition. And unlike all other departments, the staff of this department is the least effective. They are not engaged in career guidance and development ", - stressed Elena Druzhinina.

Educational plans

The next complaint of employees against the management of the university is that "With the introduction of new educational standards, the mathematical component of engineering and economic curricula has been significantly reduced and continues to decline".

Elena Druzhinina explained that for the university this is the most important direction and the university supports the message of the governor Vladimir Yakushev to develop mathematical directions: “We just named the disciplines differently - mathematics has not been removed. They write about it because they have a conflict with the institution. Everything depends on this ".

Targets

“The norms for increasing the workload are associated with the normative indicators of the Ministry of Education and Science in terms of the number of students per unit of teaching staff. This figure, according to the order of the Government of the Russian Federation of April 30, 2014 No. 722-r, should be 11.1 in 2016. At the same time, other numbers of this order are forgotten. Thus, the share of administrative, managerial and support personnel should be 38% of all employees of the University in 2016, the salary of teachers should be 150% of the average monthly salary in 2016 in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation - the Tyumen region, and by 2017 this figure should reach 200%. Speaking at the Academic Council of Tyumen State University in August 2015, the rector V.N.Falkov announced the following figures: the total number of teaching staff - 869 people, the total number of university employees - 1963 people, i.e. the share of administrative, managerial and support personnel was 56 %, PPP - 44%.

According to Rosstat, the average salary in the Tyumen region (excluding the autonomous regions) is 37262 rubles, therefore, 150% of this amount is 55893 rubles. At the same time, the most qualified teacher is a professor, receives about 40,000 rubles, and professors at the University of Tyumen are about 10% of the total number of teachers. What is planned to be done to achieve the named targets? " teachers describe the fourth claim .

Press secretary of Tyumen State University Elena Druzhinina noted that the salary and rates are respected in connection with the recommendations of the Ministry of Education: “The ratio of the average salary of teachers to the average salary in the region is 110.2%. The bonus is paid two more times a year ".

Note that the letter was circulated before the elections, in which the rector of Tyumen State University Valery Falkov also participates. He is running for the Tyumen Regional Duma in District No. 17.

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Valery Falkov, the rector of Tyumen State University, compares the city to a family. Each family has a history and traditions passed down from generation to generation, in different families different habits and even peculiarities of the kitchen. All this is characteristic of cities that have their own "family secrets." They are tacitly kept by city buildings, parks, old courtyards ... Many houses have survived epochs.

So it happened with the house on Orzhonikidze Street, 47. If it were not for the big green trees, the dirty gray building in the center of Tyumen would seem completely gloomy and lonely. Looking at the harsh appearance, it is difficult for a visiting person to immediately imagine that there are halls with bright canvases of the Museum of Fine Arts inside. This can be guessed only by the billboards. And all the more you will not think that behind the cold walls, once erected for the purposes of the CPSU, student life was in full swing. They studied here, passed exams, made friends, fell in love ... For hundreds of students of the 90s, this building was dear and beloved. Cold in appearance, but warmed by warm feelings and memories.

The former House of Political Education, and now the Museum of Fine Arts, rector Valery Falkov called his "place of attraction."

Cor .: Valery Nikolaevich, what is your favorite place in the city for you?

I thought about this question for a long time, it turned out to be not so simple. After all, you need to listen to yourself, to understand where this place is in the city, being in which there is a feeling similar to when an adult comes to his home.

I was born in Tyumen, but in fact I got to know the city at the age of 16, from the moment I came to enter the university. He grew up in the Kazan region, finished school there. In Tyumen, the area of ​​the House of Political Education, now the Museum of Fine Arts, has become a special place for me. It's like the first love that remains in the heart forever.

At the age of 14-15, when I was deciding where to enter, I arrived in the capital of the region and for the first time walked through the former House of Political Education on Orzhonikidze Street, it was here that the Faculty of Law of the State University was located. In 1995, I was enrolled in a university and began my studies at the law faculty, within these walls I spent four and a half years as a student. He lived in different parts of the city, in rented apartments - first at Mayak, then at Belinsky Street ...

From the first day, my studies brought me a lot of positive emotions, and the building itself had a special aura, it bore the seal of the previous era. It was significant for the Soviet era, I remember that the facade was decorated with bas-reliefs of Lenin and Marx.

It was 1995, timelessness ... no one was seriously involved in youth education, in the sense that there were no pioneers or Komsomol members ... For me this was a special freedom. I drove 400 kilometers away from home and suddenly I was left on my own. University is not a school, you can go to classes or not. The environment has completely changed, new friends and entourage have appeared. A new life has begun.

This area has accompanied me to this day. My youngest son goes to school # 21, I live nearby. I especially love this central part of the city on weekends, it becomes absolutely free and comfortable for walking. When I walk along Orzhonikidze Street, every house is familiar to me. For example, I walk past the Adidas store, but for me it is still the Knowledge store.

Cor .: How did studying at the law faculty, taking place in the building of political education, affect your life?

My formation, both personal and professional, took place at the law faculty, where significant meetings took place - with peers, with mentors. Acquaintance with Gennady Nikolaevich Chebotarev partly determined my fate. He read the discipline "Municipal Law" with us and later became my scientific advisor. Sergey Yuryevich Marachkin was the dean of the faculty, now he is the director of the Institute of State and Law of Tyumen State University. Oswald Ivanovich Klotz, who was also the dean of the faculty ... many interesting personalities can be named.

Cor .: What was special during the years of your studies? How do you perceive the building now?

Now, when I come to the Museum of Fine Arts, I have an ambivalent feeling. I see the exhibition, but I involuntarily try to find signs of the past in this building. I remember where the dean's office was, where the forensics office was. By the way, in it I passed the exam on "Criminal Procedure" (one of the most difficult subjects).

Many lawyers are nostalgic for that time, although the building was completely unsuitable for training. For example, a foreign language was taught on flights of stairs ... But for us there was an amazing atmosphere, we did not think about the conditions, we studied and were happy. Probably also because the very fact of entering the law faculty at the university was then the ultimate dream.

I remember the large hall for 300 people, we were given lectures. Here we received the first "lessons of democracy". In 1996, oppositionist Sergei Atroshenko, a rival in the elections of Leonid Roketsky, spoke before us. The meetings were held with great emotional intensity, Atroshenko's statements were impressive, seemed to us very courageous, we understood that freedom in the country was unlimited.

In the building of the Political Education and behind its windows, I saw completely two different Russia. When we went out into the street, we watched how, on the contrary, the luxurious Tyumen hotel was being built ... The students lived in a different reality - we did not take a taxi, we counted every ruble, but here they were building a hotel for new Russians, which was overgrown with myths.

By the way, notice how architecture is built in Tyumen. We do not have “elite” districts as such. There is no "Tyumen ruble", we have an "elite" house next to it, and right there - an ordinary panel house. I believe that this is a Tyumen feature, although someone may argue. Of course, the city center, by definition, is considered attractive for living, but even here I will show you many places where new expensive housing is adjacent to the old one.

That's how it was then. Orzhonikidze Street divided two eras: the House of Political Education, which is decorated with bas-reliefs of communist leaders, and a hotel built by the Turks, where Mercedes cars drive up. Two symbols of the new country.

Cor .: Did you want to get into the kind of life that was unfolding opposite?

No, I never had a dream to wear a crimson jacket ... (laughs) Just what I saw gave a clear idea of ​​all the poles of modern life. We were not at all jealous. I considered myself the happiest person, and my friends, because our whole life belonged to us.

Cor .: Did you deliberately go to the Faculty of Law, or were there other options?

Yes, I wanted to go to law school. I passed my English and social studies with excellent marks, but I was simply out of luck with the Russian language. Therefore, I entered the contractual place. I wrote an essay based on Gorky's novel "Mother", but I had less time than all applicants, 4 hours, but much less. I had to return for a passport forgotten at home. This combination of circumstances did not play in my direction ... I even know which of the teachers checked my work. When I became rector, I asked for my personal file, it became interesting!

Valery Nikolaevich Falkov was born on October 18, 1978 in the city of Tyumen. In 1995 he entered the law faculty of Tyumen State University. In 2000, he graduated with honors from the Institute of State and Law with a degree in Jurisprudence, after which he entered graduate school and in May 2003 graduated early. In 2007 he was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law of Tyumen State University.

Since 2003, Valery Falkov's track record includes the positions of head of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law of Tyumen State University, Vice-Rector for Additional Education and Branches, Chairman of the Council of Young Scientists and Specialists of the Region, Director of the Institute of Law, Economics and Management of Tyumen State University.

On March 21, 2013, he was elected rector of Tyumen State University at a conference of the labor collective. Since March 2012, he has been Deputy Chairman of the Regional Branch of the Russian Bar Association. Initiator of the Open School of Law project. Laureate of the highest legal award in the Tyumen region "Lawyer of the Year 2014".

Since 2013, a deputy of the Tyumen City Duma.

Since 2014 - in the reserve of management personnel under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation.

Has certificates of honor and awards at the federal and regional levels.

Cor .: There is a city of brides, a city of metallurgists, a city of scientists, Tyumen - whose city?

Tyumen is different in different years. Before the revolution, she was undoubtedly a merchant. And with the beginning of the development of the oil and gas sector, Tyumen would like to be called a city of oil and gas workers, but this is not entirely correct. I would call it the city of those who built, who mastered the north. All design institutes and central administrations were located here. Many note that Tyumen, sacrificing, giving everything, like a mother to her children, itself developed poorly. This is a city of pioneers, conquerors of Western Siberia, who accomplished a feat, created a fuel and energy complex for the country. The contribution of Tyumen and the city is special.

Cor .: It remains a city of pioneers even today?

Today is a unique situation - we must all together think about the future of our city. Obviously, Tyumen will live for some time in the logic of the 60-70-80s of the last century, when we were an outpost for the north. But we must get out of it, because the future, of course, is completely different. The capital of the region is looking for its own way, and one of the possible - "Tyumen - University". The existing base will make it possible to turn Tyumen into a dynamic city, where people will come to study from all over the country. This can become one of the dominants of the city, one of the city functions. Our city is comfortable, compact, convenient in terms of transport infrastructure in comparison with other Siberian cities. We are not a "bear's corner", we are a kind of hub for many northern cities. True, we must not forget that Tomsk is claiming the status of a university city, and today it is more successful, that Yekaterinburg, the “millionaire”, is nearby ...

It is important to understand which social group will determine the appearance of the city. If these are students and teachers, then the development of infrastructure will follow a certain scenario. Much has already been done in Tyumen - the embankment, bicycle and pedestrian paths, new original formats of communication with young people are being applied. These are all attempts to find your identity ...

By the way, there is one more vector: Tyumen is a city of the older generation, why not? Many people of retirement or pre-retirement age come to us from the north, we are building entire neighborhoods for them. This path provides for a different strategy for the city's development. These are other accents in the development of infrastructure, other medicine, architecture, leisure, catering. Is it possible to combine two formats in Tyumen? Perhaps. But sooner or later, we still have to decide which of them will be the main one.

Cor .: Do you discuss the fate of the city with other deputies in the Duma?

There is no obvious discussion yet, but everything is heading towards this. This topic is raised in one way or another at different venues. I think that many of today's decisions are made based on a view of the future of Tyumen. It would be nice to reach the public and professional level of discussion. To clearly see all the pros and cons. After all, a city can develop by itself without a clear goal, it often happens in our country. But if we want Tyumen to have a clear image, more dynamic development, then, of course, it is better to prioritize.

Cor .: As a city dweller, what places do you miss in the city?

It is obvious that there are not enough parks and squares in Tyumen. Gilevskaya Grove, Zatyumensky are good places to stay, but you still have to get there. And it is desirable that you, while living in the microdistrict, can walk in the park, which is located nearby. So that the parks are inside the city. In the historical part, in the future, I see an opportunity to use the territory of the Settlement, where instead of building it is possible to systematically create park areas - "zones of advanced ecology".

Although, I must admit that the city is rapidly moving in this direction. 5 years ago there was a completely different rhetoric: traffic jams, motorization, new bridges, interchanges ... And now there is a demand for a different quality of life. Parks can be talked about by the urban community, which is relatively satisfied with everything else.

Cor .: Valery Nikolaevich, do you have any ideas about creating a new street, park, monument in the city?

My dream is to create a good park for Tyumen students. We do not yet have a holistic, ideological, popularly recognized place for students in the city, it has to be done.

Cor .: How is Vorobyovy Gory in the capital?

Our embankment can become this place. See how she changed the city and the townspeople. I love to walk there at any time of the day, and there are always a lot of people. I see how many amateur athletes! I'm not sure if these people played sports before. A new urban culture is being born there. There are many elderly people who practice Nordic walking. This place has become a point of attraction. It's great that the urban environment has such an impact on people. Tyumen residents began to treat their health differently, the younger generation is being brought up on such positive examples.

Cor .: Whom representatives of the state university can, in your opinion, be called outstanding people of Tyumen?

Among the current employees, this is a large-scale scientist, the same age as the university, academician Vladimir Zagvyazinsky. His merits are very significant for Russian education. Writer Konstantin Yakovlevich Lagunov. While working at the university, they did a lot for the city.

I cannot but name Professor Viktor Deryabin, who made every effort to create a university from a pedagogical institute in Tyumen in 1973. This was a serious step forward, because, thanks to him, the first university appeared in Tyumen.

The House of Political Education was removed from the side of the square, on the site of which the Quality Hotel Tyumen will be built

Lawyers of Tyumen State University on the porch of the House of Political Education

One of the issues of the Faculty of Law since the House of Political Education. In the first row, student Vladimir Yakushev.

Alma mater for many Tyumen lawyers

Valery Falkov's "place of attraction", which became the crossroads of eras, still retains the features of time. The building has the same massive colorful staircase, high ceilings, thick Soviet lacquered doors, shabby parquet ... for what and how you love your hometown.

Elena KUKHALSKAYA,

Photo Denis ZINOVIEV