OREANDA-NEWS. June 04, 2010. As a part of the partnership with Higher Education Establishments programme, DTEK has equipped a computer class in the National Mining University (the NMU, Dnepropetrovsk). The energy company purchased 15 state-of-the-art computers, an interactive electronic whiteboard, an overhead projector and other office equipment to support the process of teaching the students of the NMU’s Underground Deposits Extraction Department. The cost of equipment is UAH180 thou. 
 
This project is one of the first steps in the long-term partnership programme, signed between DTEK and the NMU in March 2010. Other agreements between the company and the university are being fulfilled in parallel: formation of ‘DTEK Group’, students of which will be taught with the help of the programme prepared in cooperation with DTEK’s best specialists, starting September 2010. Managers of the Company and Pavlogradugol OJSC (DTEK) will participate in the state examination commissions’ activity and the best graduates with field-specific qualifications will be offered jobs in DTEK. Also, the university students will have their field experience at the Company’s enterprises.
 
‘The programme of DTEK’s cooperation with the field-specific higher education establishments is aimed at reducing the gap between the theoretical knowledge the students receive in universities and real requirements of employers. DTEK development strategy is based on the modern technologies application. And our goal is to start training the specialists who will join DTEK in future straight away, while they are still students. We do understand that a university should have good teaching facilities to train qualified specialists. That is why purchasing of computer equipment became one of the first steps in fulfilling the Agreement terms and conditions’, Alexander Kucherenko, DTEK Deputy HR Director, said.