OREANDA-NEWS. Sergey Kogogin, General Director of OJSC KAMAZ, and Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan’s President, visited classrooms and laboratories of the branch of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University in Naberezhnye Chelny.

In the course of the meeting, Tatarstan’s President was informed of the situation in the automobile industry, today’s problems and possible solutions to them in this sphere. For example, the gap between educational and professional standards has long been discussed. Getting jobs at production enterprises, graduates have to be retrained in order to comply with the company’s requirements. Therefore, KAMAZ needs ready skillful engineers for all stages of modern vehicle production.

KAMAZ experts believe that the situation can be improved if Higher School of Automotive Engineering is established on the premises of the branch of KFU in Naberezhnye Chelny. It would help to create competitive environment for development, realization and continuous improvement of original training programs to prepare highly skilled engineers for the automobile industry. It is also necessary to open new ways of education and reform old ones, because today’s Russian automobile industry needs specialists able to introduce and support innovative developments. Besides, the opening of such a school would enable to implement a great deal of other ambitious projects of KAMAZ.