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Welcome! From a college with 20 students founded just at the dawn of the Perestroyka, IGUMO has grown into an inventing institution with a mission to advance knowledge, promote teaching and research, and help society to discover new ways to overcome its most pressing problems. IGUMO's academic environment attracts outstanding students and scholars from around the country and abroad, while its generous financial aid programmes make IGUMO available to students from all economic backgrounds. IGUMO is proud of its ties to the local community. Our musical and theatrical offerings, public lectures, and forums enhance the intellectual and cultural vibrancy of the region. At IGUMO education is limited neither by time nor space. It is an ongoing and restless research, one to which this institute is dedicated. It is a pleasure to me to welcome you to IGUMO. I hope that your stay will prove enlightening, enjoyable and educational. The Institute for the Humanities and IT: Summing up The Moscow Institute for the Humanities and IT (IGUMO) is an institution of higher professional learning which has been providing educational services since 1992 under the licence issued by the Russian Ministry of Science and Education on September 3, 2004, A No 001795 (Registration No 1756), appendices No1, No2, No3, No4 and No5. At present IGUMO offers courses in 23 specialities of higher education, 6 specialities of secondary professional education, 4 specialities of postgraduate studies, and 4 syllabi of supplementary education (pre-entrance preparatory courses and advanced vocational training). The Institute has 8 faculties, 23 departments, the Syllabi Division, the Students Support Division, the Admission Committee, the Preparatory Courses, the Library, the Accounting Division, the Editorial and Publishing Division, the Personnel Division, the Legal Division, the Computer Division, the PR Division, the Administrative and Logistics Division and the Academic Council made up of 31 members. At present IGUMO has the following faculties:
There are two forms of pre-university education in IGUMO: career-guidance programmes involving the students of the senior grades of Moscow’s Eastern Administrative District schools and the IGUMO preparatory courses. In order to enhance the interaction between the compulsory schooling system, the labour market and various social institutions, IGUMO has set up a Career Planning Centre which provides:
Another way of attracting talented young people to IGUMO is holding competitions in different school subjects among the pupils of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow. Only in 2007 7 such competitions were held. Every year IGUMO takes part in the “Education and Career in the 21st Century” exhibitions. IGUMO’s curricula for all the fields of training it offers, meet state standards of higher professional education. Good jobs obtained by IGUMO graduates are the result of the purposeful work of the faculties and departments in organizing the students’ placement (internship) in various entities according to the specialities chosen. IGUMO classes involve an extensive use of new information and computer technologies. The total number of IBM compatible computers used in the corporate network of IGUMO amounts to 170 items. There are 115 terminals with Internet access, 3 local computer networks and 5 computer classrooms. Electronic textbooks and information obtained through global information networks are used in the training process. The software used includes the latest software products and educational programmes.
IGUMO’s electronic library of full-text books and documents, the legal database “Counsellor-Plus”, the database “Guarantor” and the integrated training process automation system “IGUMO” are extensively used in the Institute. All the programmes are available in computer classrooms and at workstations connected to IGUMO’s corporate network. IGUMO graduates’ employment results attest to the high quality of their training and their being in high demand in the labour market. This is the result of the structural change in the training process implemented over the past five years in order to meet the needs of the region’s labour market. To supply the labor market demand IGUMO offers training in new specialities as well as in new specializations within the existing specialities. In the past few years the following specializations have been introduced:
The Institute has worked out and is introducing its own system of training quality control. This system encompasses all the basic elements of the academic activity: the curricula quality control, the control of the quality of training and the control of the quality of teaching. The said system is based on an automated system of academic activity management. IGUMO’s faculty totals 130 people. 43 of them are on the staff and work full-time, 60 people are by-workers who work part-time, and 27 people are part-time employees paid by the hour. Out of IGUMO’s 130 instructors 25 or 19 per cent are professors and 90 or 69 per cent are Ph.Ds. IGUMO’s library meets the readers’ needs for information, and assists in training highly skilled specialists. It also contributes to the upgrading of the training process, the enhancement of research and educational work and encourages self-study.
The reading room holds 34 reader desks. There are also 11 workstations with Internet access for working with electronic editions. Internet access and access to IGUMO’s databases are available in computer classrooms as well. The IGUMO library has an information system which enables the students and faculty members to search for the necessary editions straight from their workstations. IGUMO’s library stock amounts to 199507 items. Since 2003 the library has been purchasing 17000 copies of new literature annually.
The library provides the students with basic textbooks and academic literature on all the subjects of the curricula as well as the pertinent periodicals and newspapers. The main means of providing access to the electronic editions the library has is IGUMO’s web-site. The web-site of the faculties also contains the current information pertaining to the training process: the time-tables, tutorial schedules, examination schedules etc. In IGUMO research is carried out in 7 main areas. It is within the framework of these areas that research is planned, theses are defended and research results are published. Research is conducted at the departments and faculties of IGUMO. The general plan of research is submitted for approval to the director. Research in IGUMO is supervised by the deputy director for research and coordinated and controlled by the academic secretary. Since 2004 postgraduate courses have been run in IGUMO in the following specialities:
At present there are 29 internal and external postgraduate students and 5 candidates for the Ph.D. degree who are preparing their theses without attending the postgraduate courses offered by IGUMO. Every year IGUMO holds conferences at international, national, interuniversity and faculty levels. In 2007 there were 7 conferences including the international workshop conference “Professional Communication: Verbal and Cognitive Aspects” held in February and the all-Russian conference “The October Revolution of 1917Viewed from a 21st Century Standpoint”. The reports made at both conferences have been published.
In 2007 IGUMO also held conferences at which all the reports were made by students. Thus, in April the student workshop conference “New Generation Specialists: Competence in Solving New Priority Problems” was held, in October the Psychology faculty held the conference “The Problems of Professional Self-identification”, in November the Law faculty held the conference “Protection of the Rights of the Participants in Civil Law (business) Relations” and the Psychology faculty held the conference “Inclinations and Capabilities as the Basis of Professional Approval”. In November IGUMO also held the inter-university conference “The Steady and Effective Development of Home Trade in Russia”.
To involve the students in research a student research society was set up in IGUMO in October 2007 and a plan of organizational and research activity was worked out.
The employees of IGUMO actively contribute to research projects and conferences not only in IGUMO itself, but also in other universities, think tanks, etc. and publish the results of their research both in Russia and abroad. Only in the 2006-2007 academic year the Institute’s employees published 5 monographs, 4 textbooks, 9 other books and 86 articles. The regular employees took part in 29 conferences, round-table discussions and seminars.
IGUMO’s participation in international cooperation is based on its five-year partnership with Warsaw University, Poland. Within the framework of this partnership the dean of IGUMO’s Foreign Languages faculty Professor G.Gumovskaya Ph.D.(Philology) worked for two years (2004-2005) as a professor of the Department of Languages for Specific Purposes of Warsaw University. She shared her experience with her Polish colleagues and took part in the implementation of the European research project “Languages for Specific Purposes and Terminography”.
A lot of attention is paid to the work of student societies and organizations such as the student Council, the student research society the editorial board of the students’ radio and newspaper and the student business incubator.
IGUMO attaches great importance to a healthy life-style and the popularization of sports. It regularly holds competitions in volleyball, bowling, football, swimming, shooting, and table tennis. IGUMO students annually participate in many district, Moscow, national and international sports competitions. Social and cultural events held in the Institute are always very popular among the students. The students Initiation ceremony is held annually in late September. There are also events dedicated to All Russian Students’ Day (St.Tatiana’s Day, January 25). Twice a year competitions in wittiness are held by the Club for the Cheerful and the Quick-Witted. Intellectual competitions are held twice a year by the “What? Where? When?” Club. There are special facilities for holding such events, i.e. an assembly hall with 210 seats and rehearsal rooms.
All of IGUMO’s academic activities are held on the premises it manages. All the premises used by IGUMO meet the requirements of epidemiological and fire safety. |
