Pyatigorsk State University (PSU)
Pyatigorsk State University (PSU)

The date of foundation of Pyatigorsk State University is considered to be June 27, 1939, when the Pedagogical School officially became a higher educational institution. Since then, the university has undergone various changes and transformations - an increase in the number of years of study, several renamings - and officially became known as Pyatigorsk State University in 2016. Since 2005, the head of the university is Professor Gorbunov Alexander Pavlovich. By 2009, 10 faculties were formed at the university. Further, on their basis, institutes and higher schools were created, having one of the faculties in their composition. In addition, PSU is actively developing the system of pre-university, postgraduate and additional education. It has a branch in Novorossiysk. Currently, the university has 34 departments. Now Pyatigorsk State University has more than 5,500 students and 3,000 students from different regions of Russia and foreign countries. All the peoples of the Caucasus are also represented in PSU.

The teaching staff of PSU is part of the authors of the textbook "Innovative methods of teaching in higher education", published with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia and the Presidential Grants Fund. The textbook is devoted to topical issues of introducing innovative methods and technologies into the higher education system.

It examines the role of education as a cross-cutting area of innovative development, analyzes the effectiveness of methods of active and problem-oriented learning, flexible forms of organization of the educational process and evaluation of results.

Contains tasks and practical situations involving the organization of discourse in the social network Vkontakte and the availability of a software product to assess the effectiveness of students.

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