Benchmarking, motivated students and satisfied companies
It’s time to say: I’m proud to announce we have launched a pilot project with Department of Marketing (St.Petersburg State University of Economics) and ROSSINNO, hi-tech company from St. Petersburg. During next 6 weeks the students will be working in 8 teams on 4 projects. This is absolutely new format of studying and working both for students and companies. I have no doubts it will yield great results to us.
So what this has to do with benchmarking? The thing is that I brought this idea from Finland this spring. I was taught this way at HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences. Being impressed and excited by the way Finnish universities do their job, I came back with strong intention to adopt their best practices into Russian educational reality.
That is how I found myself in front of the Department’s door at the end of August. Today is September 23, and the project was launched 3 days ago. I’m very optimistic about it and looking forward to seeing the results of the project.
