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Press Release
Russian University Awards
Honorary Doctorate Degree to Jagdish Gandhi
 
Ufa (Russia) October 5: On the occasion
of World Teacher’s Day
5th October 2009,
Bashkir State
Pedagogical University (BSPU), Ufa,
Russia awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Education
to Dr Jagdish Gandhi, Founder of City Montessori School
(CMS), Lucknow , India. BSPU is the largest Pedagogical
State University of Russian Bashkortostan State with
14,000 students and 600 professors.
BSPU considered awarding this honour to
Dr Jagdish Gandhi for his relentless work for the cause
of education, world unity and world peace for over 50
years since 1959 when he started his school with just
five children. Today
CMS is the world’s largest school in single city of
Lucknow, India with over 37,000 pupils and
is also the first and only school to receive the coveted
UNESCO Prize for Peace Education.
Prof R. M. Asadullin, Rector of the BSPU presented the
Honorary Doctorate Degree to Dr Gandhi in a glittering
function held in presence of 600 professors of the
University.
The Citation presented to Dr Gandhi by the University
says ‘the
Board Members of Bashkir State
Pedagogical University (BSPU), Ufa, Russia have
unanimously decided to honour you with the Honorary
Doctorate Degree considering the fact that you have
devoted 50 long years to the service of society and
humanity at large in the field of education and building
a world fit for children and generations
yet-to-be-born.’
Dr Gandhi was here on the invitation of BSPU and will be
in Russia till 8th October 2009. He will be
in Moscow on 7th and 8th October.
On 7th October,
the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of
Sciences and the Russian Philosophical Society has
invited Dr Gandhi to address a press conference on the
topic ‘Social Responsibility of a Modern Institute’. On
8th October he will address teachers and
students of Slavic Anglo American School in Moscow
before departing for India.
Contact:
Mrs Raisa Mingazitdinova Iksanova
Head of the International Department
BASHKIR STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY (BSPU)
3-A, Oktyabrskoy Revolutzii Street, Ufa 450000, Russia
Phone & Fax: +73472503686
Cell: 007-9173484755
Email:
oms_bspu2008@mail.ru
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