On December 27 at a traditional meeting with rectors of higher educational institutions Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that important tasks are to be fulfilled by higher educational institutions, and their potential enables doing it.

Opening the meeting, Rustam Minnikhanov noted that 2013 was not an easy year for the republic. “We successfully held Universiade, and our higher educational institutions took an active part in the event. Many universities updated their material and technical base,” he said.

Tatarstan President underlined that Tatarstan higher educational institutions are successfully developing and implementing major projects. At the same time, high quality of specialist training should be provided.

Rustam Minnikhanov believes that educational system is the guarantee of a region’s competitiveness, and investors appreciate presence of qualified specialists. He called higher schools for taking into account experience of global research and educational centres, attract young talented people from other regions.

Summing up, Rustam Minnikhanov thanked heads of Tatarstan higher schools for team work with the Government and Tatarstan President’s Office.

Rector of Kazan federal university, in his turn, thanked Tatarstan President for the meeting and briefly told about activity of the university in 2013.