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UNESCO World Conference on Education to open in Paris.
PARIS, July 5 (Itar-Tass) - The 2009 World Conference on Higher
Education will open at the UNESCO headquarters on Sunday. More than a
thousand people including ministers and deputy ministers for higher
education of countries from all continents, international experts and
representatives of the private sector will participate in its work.
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko will lead the
Russian delegation to the forum.
The four-day conference will review modern trends in education from
the growing number of students to rapid growth of private education.
According to the UNESCO World Report on education in 2009, the number
of students in institutions of high learning has increased by 51.7 million
since 2000.
The conference will also discuss new trends and processes in modern
education. Its delegates will analyze problems of social responsibility
of higher education, work out recommendations on how to support equality
in education and consider ways of stimulating innovations and research.
The forum will also have to work out measures allowing higher
education and research and development to play a strategic role in the
creation of knowledge and exchange it for the purpose of building a future
aimed at stable development.
.Russia to participate in UNESCO World Conference on Education.
MOSCOW, July 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will participate in the 2009 World
Conference on Higher Education that will open at the UNESCO headquarters
in Paris on Sunday. More than a thousand people including ministers and
deputy ministers for higher education of countries from all continents,
international experts and representatives of the private sector will
participate in its work.
"The World Conference is the most significant event in higher
education. The last world meeting of such a large scale was held in 1998.
Thus, the conference will summarize the work carried out over the past ten
years and define some vectors of a future policy in higher education," the
Russian Foreign Ministry said.
According to the UNESCO World Report on education in 2009, the number
of students in institutions of high learning has increased by 51.7 million
since 2000.
The G-8 summit held in St. Petersburg in 2006 was the first to raise
the question of global challenges in education. Its participants voiced
determination to contribute to the creation of a global innovative society
through development and integration of all the three elements in the
"triangle of knowledge" (education, research and innovation), large-scale
investments in human resources, the development of professional skills and
scientific research as well as through upgrading and modernization of the
entire education system to make it meet the needs of the global economy.
Ten years after the first World Conference for Higher Education held
in Paris in 1998, about 1,200 representatives of the UNESCO member states
will confirm the strategic role of higher education in solving
contemporary global challenges - from eradication of poverty to stable
development.
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko will lead
the Russian delegation to the conference that will close on July 8.
.Hockey player Alexander Ovechkin named Sochi-2014 ambassador.
SOCHI, the Black Sea, July 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russian hockey player
Alexander Ovechkin has been named a Sochi-2014 ambassador as the city is
celebrating the second anniversary of Russia's victory in a bidding to
host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
Ovechkin received a diploma of the Sochi-14 ambassador at a ceremony
at the Sochi central stadium where a team of Russian football legends,
'Druzhba', was playing a friendly vs. a combined team of the Sochi-14
organizing committee.
"It's a great honor for me as a hockey player that the Games will be
held in my home country. When Sochi won in Guatemala, we were happy that
in 2014 we would be able to play at home on a new hockey field right on
the sea shore," Ovechkin said.
"As an athlete I'll do everything to win the Olympic gold to my
country; as a Sochi-2014 ambassador, I'll do my best to make sure that the
Games pass at the highest level," Ovechkin went on to say.
Ovechkin took part in the friendly against the 'Druzhba' team of
football legends on Saturday. His team lost to Druzhba 5-4.
Ovechkin said that it was worth coming to Sochi only to see how the
city is changing.
"I was here this time last year. Frankly speaking, the city is
changing fast. I am glad that they've already started building hockey
arenas," Ovechkin emphasized.
.Opera star Netrebko to sing at Stars of White Nights festival.
ST.PETERSBURG, July 5 (Itar-Tass) - World famous Russian opera singer
Anna Netrebko will give a concert at the Stars of White Nights
international festival in St. Petersburg on Sunday evening. Her repertoire
will include arias from Russian and Western operas.
Maestro Valery Gergiyev and his Symphony Orchestra will take part in
the concert.
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Education will open at the UNESCO headquarters on Sunday. More than a
thousand people including ministers and deputy ministers for higher
education of countries from all continents, international experts and
representatives of the private sector will participate in its work.
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko will lead the
Russian delegation to the forum.
The four-day conference will review modern trends in education from
the growing number of students to rapid growth of private education.
According to the UNESCO World Report on education in 2009, the number
of students in institutions of high learning has increased by 51.7 million
since 2000.
The conference will also discuss new trends and processes in modern
education. Its delegates will analyze problems of social responsibility
of higher education, work out recommendations on how to support equality
in education and consider ways of stimulating innovations and research.
The forum will also have to work out measures allowing higher
education and research and development to play a strategic role in the
creation of knowledge and exchange it for the purpose of building a future
aimed at stable development.
.Russia to participate in UNESCO World Conference on Education.
MOSCOW, July 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russia will participate in the 2009 World
Conference on Higher Education that will open at the UNESCO headquarters
in Paris on Sunday. More than a thousand people including ministers and
deputy ministers for higher education of countries from all continents,
international experts and representatives of the private sector will
participate in its work.
"The World Conference is the most significant event in higher
education. The last world meeting of such a large scale was held in 1998.
Thus, the conference will summarize the work carried out over the past ten
years and define some vectors of a future policy in higher education," the
Russian Foreign Ministry said.
According to the UNESCO World Report on education in 2009, the number
of students in institutions of high learning has increased by 51.7 million
since 2000.
The G-8 summit held in St. Petersburg in 2006 was the first to raise
the question of global challenges in education. Its participants voiced
determination to contribute to the creation of a global innovative society
through development and integration of all the three elements in the
"triangle of knowledge" (education, research and innovation), large-scale
investments in human resources, the development of professional skills and
scientific research as well as through upgrading and modernization of the
entire education system to make it meet the needs of the global economy.
Ten years after the first World Conference for Higher Education held
in Paris in 1998, about 1,200 representatives of the UNESCO member states
will confirm the strategic role of higher education in solving
contemporary global challenges - from eradication of poverty to stable
development.
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko will lead
the Russian delegation to the conference that will close on July 8.
.Hockey player Alexander Ovechkin named Sochi-2014 ambassador.
SOCHI, the Black Sea, July 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russian hockey player
Alexander Ovechkin has been named a Sochi-2014 ambassador as the city is
celebrating the second anniversary of Russia's victory in a bidding to
host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
Ovechkin received a diploma of the Sochi-14 ambassador at a ceremony
at the Sochi central stadium where a team of Russian football legends,
'Druzhba', was playing a friendly vs. a combined team of the Sochi-14
organizing committee.
"It's a great honor for me as a hockey player that the Games will be
held in my home country. When Sochi won in Guatemala, we were happy that
in 2014 we would be able to play at home on a new hockey field right on
the sea shore," Ovechkin said.
"As an athlete I'll do everything to win the Olympic gold to my
country; as a Sochi-2014 ambassador, I'll do my best to make sure that the
Games pass at the highest level," Ovechkin went on to say.
Ovechkin took part in the friendly against the 'Druzhba' team of
football legends on Saturday. His team lost to Druzhba 5-4.
Ovechkin said that it was worth coming to Sochi only to see how the
city is changing.
"I was here this time last year. Frankly speaking, the city is
changing fast. I am glad that they've already started building hockey
arenas," Ovechkin emphasized.
.Opera star Netrebko to sing at Stars of White Nights festival.
ST.PETERSBURG, July 5 (Itar-Tass) - World famous Russian opera singer
Anna Netrebko will give a concert at the Stars of White Nights
international festival in St. Petersburg on Sunday evening. Her repertoire
will include arias from Russian and Western operas.
Maestro Valery Gergiyev and his Symphony Orchestra will take part in
the concert.
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