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How To Make Mathematics Exciting For Everyone
Mathematics is at the core of virtually all sciences, including humanities, which makes learning it from a young age essential. But what can teachers do to instill a love for the subject in children, knowing that it’s considered by many useless for daily living? Keep reading to learn how to make math fun and easy-to-learn from the experts at Yet another Conference on Education.
06.12.2022
Russia on Film: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Donning fur coats year round, drinking vodka with every meal, and plotting evil schemes are just some of the ways in which filmmakers love to portray Russians. But are they true? Let me take my ushanka off and take a closer look at some of the most common stereotypes.
23.11.2020
Metanano 2020 on Gender Inequality in Science
The METANANO 2020 International Conference on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials has included a round-table discussion regarding gender diversity in science. The participants of the round table were scientists from France, Germany, Switzerland, and Russia. In this article, ITMO.NEWS sums up the main points of this online discussion.
21.09.2020
Career Guidance for School Students
In Russia, people aren’t really used to getting counseling. Still, they’ve gradually started to turn to professional help with particular issues such as career guidance. A career guidance expert can help a person to choose several promising options from the multitude of possible career paths, as well as suggest particular development strategies based on one’s individual preferences and ambitions. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, Tatyana Klimova, psychologist from ITMO’s Career Guidance and Scouting Office, spoke about the best ways to choose one’s career and the associated issues.
08.10.2018
Career Guidance for School Students
In Russia, people aren’t really used to getting counseling. Still, they’ve gradually started to turn to professional help with particular issues such as career guidance. A career guidance expert can help a person to choose several promising options from the multitude of possible career paths, as well as suggest particular development strategies based on one’s individual preferences and ambitions. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, Tatyana Klimova, psychologist from ITMO’s Career Guidance and Scouting Office, spoke about the best ways to choose one’s career and the associated issues.
08.10.2018
Career Guidance for School Students
In Russia, people aren’t really used to getting counseling. Still, they’ve gradually started to turn to professional help with particular issues such as career guidance. A career guidance expert can help a person to choose several promising options from the multitude of possible career paths, as well as suggest particular development strategies based on one’s individual preferences and ambitions. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, Tatyana Klimova, psychologist from ITMO’s Career Guidance and Scouting Office, spoke about the best ways to choose one’s career and the associated issues.
08.10.2018
Those Who Code: Female Programmers on Gender Issues in IT
When one talks about programmers, the first image that comes to mind is a bearded man with a cat, some geek in hipster glasses, or a nerd that doesn't see behind his monitor… Anything but a woman. There is still a stereotype that coding is not for women, which is being gradually destroyed by those girls who become interested in IT and study it. ITMO.NEWS interviewed those who fight this stereotype daily. Female IT students from different Russian universities shared about why working in IT is on-trend, how they feel among their male colleagues and whether they ever faced gender inequality problems in their professional lives.
08.03.2017