From January 23 on the North-Caucasus Federal University is hosting two Olympiads for school students – in Physics (Physics Runs The World, for 7-11 graders) and Mathematics (for 5-11 graders). On January 27 the Olympiads in Chemistry (for 8-11 graders) and Computer Science (for 5-11 graders) shall be started as well.

January 22 and 23 the NCFU hosted the Regional stage of Russian National Olympiad for school students in History of Russia. The students faced a tough task – on Day 1 the contestants were to demonstrate their knowledge of their homeland’s past along with their ability to match global events with those going on in Russia around the same time. In Tour 2 the students showed their creative talents writing two compositions.

On the eve of the Russian Students’ Day the Radio Komsomolskaya pravda-Stavropol invited NCFU representatives to talk at live broadcast. This time the radio show Cup of coffee hosted First Pro-Rector Dmitry Sumskoy and Chief Secretary of Admission Committee Irina Solovyeva.

Rector of NCFU Alina Levitskaya came to the studio to join the TV-show Open Talk (TV & Radio company Stavropolye). The programme was to mark the Day of Russian Students so the focus was on the reform in higher education, new trends in the regional universities, and the achievements so far.

The NCFU has selected those to compete for Vladimir Potanin’s Charity Foundation Scholarship. All of them are our students studying for their Master’s degree (47 person), which is another condition within this Scholarship Programme aiming at offering support to active students. In the end of January 46 of the students will go to Rostov-on-Don to join the final stage of the contest while one more student will represent the University in Moscow (he was invited there as the winner of another contest).

January 24, Friday the Torch of the XXII Winter Olympics and XI Paralympics arrives in Stavropol and NCFU students, teachers, and even alumni will join the Relay. At 11:30 the first man of the NCFU shall take up the Torch on Dzerzhinskogo Street (Building 151, Trade Unions House) after which the University representatives shall carry the Fire along up to the Tolstogo Street crossroads.

116 school students from all over the Stavropol Region came to the NCFU to demonstrate their knowledge in the Russian Language and compete for the high award within the III Regional Stage of the Russian National Olympiad 2013-2014.