Joint Sino-Russian Academic Excellence Programme
"Language Services in a Disruptive World"
"Language Services in a Disruptive World"
The Russia-China Joint Academic Excellence Project "Language Services in a Disruptive World" is an academic project jointly carried out by Russian and Chinese educational institutions.
The project was initiated by the educational institution Literra Education Centre (Russia), which is among top 20 language service companies in Eastern Europe, united 25 Russian universities and Chinese educational institutions such as the Language Service Competence Assessment & Training Centre (PRC), aiming to improve the English ability, translation skills, and language service practice level of English teachers in Chinese colleges and universities.
At the same time, this project also provides opportunities for these teachers to study the theoretical foundations of a language or training method in a specialised postgraduate programme at Russian universities.
The project was initiated by the educational institution Literra Education Centre (Russia), which is among top 20 language service companies in Eastern Europe, united 25 Russian universities and Chinese educational institutions such as the Language Service Competence Assessment & Training Centre (PRC), aiming to improve the English ability, translation skills, and language service practice level of English teachers in Chinese colleges and universities.
At the same time, this project also provides opportunities for these teachers to study the theoretical foundations of a language or training method in a specialised postgraduate programme at Russian universities.
The programme lasts 3 academic years and includes:
1. "Specialised English" course (industry-specific 100-hour course based on the translation and localisation expertise of the leading Russian language service companies) with a completion certificate by a licensed CPD institution, Literra Education Centre;
2. "Introduction to Language Service Industry" 16-hour course designed by Literra Education Centre with participation of members of the Russian Association of Translation Companies;
3. "Language Service" course (300-hour course provided by the Language Service Competence Assessment and Training Centre, involving interpretation and translation practice, machine translation post-editing, and corpus processing);
2. "Introduction to Language Service Industry" 16-hour course designed by Literra Education Centre with participation of members of the Russian Association of Translation Companies;
3. "Language Service" course (300-hour course provided by the Language Service Competence Assessment and Training Centre, involving interpretation and translation practice, machine translation post-editing, and corpus processing);
4. "InternationalLanguage Service Teacher Certification" issued by the International Language Service Institute of Beijing Language and Culture University, after passing the assessment;
5. Doctoral programme at one of the 25 universities in Russia in one of the three majors:
- Specialisation 5.9.6 "Languages of Peoples of Foreign Countries (Germanic Languages)"
- Specialisation 5.9.8 "Theoretical, Applied and Comparative Linguistics"
- Specialisation 13.00.02 "Theory and Methodology of Teaching (Foreign Languages)"
5. Doctoral programme at one of the 25 universities in Russia in one of the three majors:
- Specialisation 5.9.6 "Languages of Peoples of Foreign Countries (Germanic Languages)"
- Specialisation 5.9.8 "Theoretical, Applied and Comparative Linguistics"
- Specialisation 13.00.02 "Theory and Methodology of Teaching (Foreign Languages)"
The Russian doctoral programme ends with awarding of a Candidate of Science degree which is equivalent to a PhD (cf. https://www.wes.org/advisor-blog/credential-evaluations-russian-students/).
Universities
Literra Education Centre will assist with the enrolment process, document legalisation (if required) and initial induction. The prospective universities that can accept students for the doctoral programmes include:
I.S. Turgenev Oryol State University;- M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University;
- M. Akmulla Bashkir State Pedagogical University;
- Russian New University;
- Russian State University for the Humanities;
- A.I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University;
- F.M. Dostoevsky Omsk State University;
- National Research University Higher School of Economics;
- Military University;
- S. Pushkin Leningrad State University;
- Lomonosov Moscow State University;
- Moscow State Pedagogical University;
- Moscow State Linguistic University;
- Moscow City Pedagogical University;
- Mariy-El State University;
- Nevsky Institute of Language and Culture;
- Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University;
- Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University;
- Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University;
- St. Petersburg State University;
- St. Petersburg State University of Service and Economics;
- St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation;
- St. Petersburg Mining University;
- Ulyanovsk State University;
- N.A. Dobrolyubov Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University;
- North-Caucasus Federal University.
According to the arrangement of universities that can choose to study for a doctoral degree, there are two enrolment plans for this project in August 2023. The specific plans are as follows:
Plan A: Study at A.I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University (St. Petersburg)
- Russian online training and certification time: every July
- Chinese online training and certification time: twice a year in January/July
- Doctoral admission interview time: August 2023
- PhD offline teaching time: April-August every year (min. 120 days), including time for research
- Mode of defence: Russian, English-Russian interpretation and translation are allowed.
- Chinese online training and certification time: twice a year in January/July
- Doctoral admission interview time: August 2023
- PhD offline teaching time: April-August every year (min. 120 days), including time for research
- Mode of defence: Russian, English-Russian interpretation and translation are allowed.
Plan B: Ulyanovsk State University (Ulyanovsk)
- Russian online training and certification time: every July
- Chinese online training and certification time: twice a year in January/July
- Doctoral admission interview time: August 2023
- PhD offline teaching time: April-August every year (min. 120 days), including time for research
- Mode of defence: Russian, English-Russian interpretation and translation are allowed.
- Chinese online training and certification time: twice a year in January/July
- Doctoral admission interview time: August 2023
- PhD offline teaching time: April-August every year (min. 120 days), including time for research
- Mode of defence: Russian, English-Russian interpretation and translation are allowed.
For all the details please contact Literra Education Centre at training@li-terra.com.