"Knowledge Day is a time of open roads and successful future," - Nikolai Kurko
On the last day of summer, the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management has opened the door to knowledge for thousands of students in all corners of Ukraine and abroad.
By long-standing tradition, Knowledge Day celebration started with a prayer service at the chapel of St. George, who spent archpriest Dionysius Martyshin, doctor of theology, professor ICA and Archpriest Sergei Kotsar, the candidate of theology, an associate professor of ICA. In his speech, the father of Dionysius Martyshin said:
«Every year the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management is starting a new academic year with reference to God, the Virgin Mary and all the Christian saints. Prayerfully turning to God, we call on God's blessing the multifaceted processes of education, training, research activities, and the experiential knowledge of the spiritual world. It is not surprising, because our Academy pays great attention to the study of the foundations of Christian morality, the Christian church history, religious philosophy, the main aspects of Orthodox theology and religious thought of mankind. It should be emphasized that Christian theological thought constantly emphasizes the unity of science and religion, education and spiritual life, intellectual and spiritual search of the Truth».
August 31, students of all IAPM institutions, technical school and college, Institute of Advertising, students 'Prestige' educational complex had visited holiday lineup at the Academy. Also, with the assistance of management IAPM and the Institute of International Education at the celebration were invited distinguished guests, representatives of the political, artistic, scientific and sports elite of Ukraine:
• Constantine Vashchenko - Ukrainian public servant, chairman of the National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service, Honored Economist of Ukraine;
• Hassan Haddur - Ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic in Ukraine;
• Nazim Aliyev - Chargé d'Affaires of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Ukraine;
• Behnan Behshedi - Consul of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran;
• Nikolai Anoufriev - Doctor of Law, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, Honorary Rector of the AIDP;
• Elbrus Tedeyev - Honored Master of Sports in freestyle wrestling Olympic champion, MP of the 5th, 6th and 7th convocations;
• Zhan Belenyuk - Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler, Olympic silver medalist (2016), silver medalist at the European Games (2015), champion and bronze medalist of world and European championships, Universiade bronze medalist (2013), Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine;
• Basil Nechepa - Kobzar, national Artist of Ukraine, laureate of Taras Shevchenko National Prize.
After entering the Ukrainian flag, flags of the International Personnel Academy and Interregional Academy of Personnel Management and the performance of the anthem of Ukraine, rector of Academy Nikolai Kurko turned to the audience with a greeting and parting words:
«Today, the Academy opened the classrooms doors and new academic year starts. It is the Responsibility time in the life of each of you, dear students! This is the time when the roads are open to education and a successful future. I want to turn to freshmen: be persistent to achieve high results in the mastery of knowledge! After the learning process the university responds promptly to the changing demands of society, so the Academy team is doing everything in order to prepare specialists in a fundamentally new level! May this academic year opens up new horizons for young people knowledge of ourselves and the world».
The representatives of political, scientific, sporting elite of our country welcomed all present.
«On behalf of the Government of Ukraine, let me congratulate everyone with the Knowledge Day! I want to congratulate freshmen to the fact that you made a good investment in your skills, in your future careers, and your self-development. After IAPM – this is an opportunity to learn from good teachers, it is an opportunity to receive a quality education that will allow to be competitive in the labor market, to be the best whether it be in the promotion of the ladder of public service, whether in business. I wish you an interesting training and meet in IAPM walls true friends!» - said in his speech Konstantin Vashchenko.
Medalist and current Olympian IAPM student Belenyuk Zhan also said the words of welcome and wished success in studies, luck, patience and urged the students to get a lot of knowledges, studying at the Academy, because they are completely useful in the future.
At the great celebration Nicholas Anoufriev and Elbrus Tedeyev handed a symbolic student card to freshmen.
Students also congratulated their classmates. On the Square of knowledge young "Prestige"pupils act with poems and danced. Alina Levenchuk congratulated everybody with song. And students of IAPM Economics and Law College created theatrical act, making the individual letters of the word "student" and illustrated what qualities should have an applicant for a modern education.
In the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management much attention is paid to national-patriotic education of youth. Therefore, after the official lineup for all first-year students was held the first lecture, "We are Ukrainians", which carried out pro-rector for scientific and educational work Nikolai Holovaty and national Artist of Ukraine Vasyl Nechepa. Nikolai Fedorovich told freshmen about the value of Ukrainian independence and responsibility to be Ukrainians. Also, during a lesson on the scene exhibited exhibition, which was prepared by experts of the Yaroslav Mudry International Library and Information Center on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Independence of Ukraine.
«Today you can see in this exhibition unique IAPM book. We first began to speak about Ukraine as an independent state! Among the submitted books there are a dictionary "Ukraine in the world", which contains basic information about the territory, the population and the outstanding discoveries of our country. Academy Publishing House has published several books about the outstanding figures of the country, including the "Golden Names of Ukraine", which collected more than 500 little-known but unique biographies of the people of our state», - said Nikolai Fedorovich.
In the first lecture Basil Nechepa made with excerpts from his own program, dedicated to the 160th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Franko Ukrainian Kamenyar. With Kobza in his hands, bandaged yellow-blue ribbon, Vasily sang younger generation imperishable masterpieces: «Ne pora», «Pisnya moya», «Оh Moroz, Morozenko», «Ponad gaem zelenenkim».After class freshmen noted that it is honorable and responsible them to be Ukrainians.
Congratulations to the students! We wish you inspiration in the field of knowledge!
Olga Korobiy
