Researchers, businessmen from 4 countries to discuss edu technologies

BARNAUL, September 27 (Itar-Tass) - Central Siberian city of Tomsk,
which is widely viewed as one of the major centers of higher-school
education in this country, will host an inter-university technological
dialogue conference from October 3 through to October 7, a spokesman for
the Tomsk-based University for Control Systems and Radionics said Tuesday.
Apart from Russian researchers and business people, the conference
will also feature a number of researchers and businessmen from Ukraine,
the U.S. and Japan.
Seminars, roundtables, workshops, presentations, and master classes
included in the itinerary make up an unusual format of the event.
The University of Control Systems and Radionics will become the venue
of the conference where many of the participants will present their
business projects and technological concepts helping design a new model of
university life.
Researchers from Japan's Ritsumeikan University will present their own
vision of the problems existing in university education right now.
Dr Yoshio Nakatani from Ritsumeikan, which is Japan's third-largest
school of higher learning, is expected to deliver a lecture on the
experience with building international cooperation that helps bring the
university's intellectual products to the international market.
Anna Degtyaryova, the Director-General of Global Management Challenge
Ukraine, is due to speak about the changes that she believes are taking
place in the approaches to social project-making and about the utilization
of business projects as tools for creating a business-friendly atmosphere
at a university.
President of New York's Parsons School of Design, Thomas Werner, will
also take part in the discussion of education-related technologies.
The future of these technologies will come into focus of a two-day
session on innovative education and creative techniques of problem solving
where the teachers and students from a number of Tomsk-based universities
and colleges will take part.
The objective of the conference is to identify the problem zones in
the educational processes, as well as the need for a revision of current
university education formats and the development of new ones.