TOMSK, Sep 27 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk State University (TSU) became a member of the International Association of Universities of the Third Age (IAUTA); this community unites higher education institutions of the different countries which work with elderly people, the press service of TSU reported on Tuesday.
IAUTA – is the authoritative organization which includes higher education institutions of Europe, Asia and America. It was established in 1973.
"There will be a studying of technologies of work with people of this age. Actually it isn't simple. For example, we were the first in Tomsk who started free English language courses for elderly people, and the first year of work shown us that it is necessary to use absolutely other, special techniques", – the director of the "Open University" center of TSU Elena Novikova is quoted in the message.
On the basis of "Open university" several programs for people of "the third age" are implemented: "Art of the gardener", "Lectures for office of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation on the Tomsk region", groups of computer literacy and English "Age of freedom". For the first six months of 2016 502 persons became listeners of programs.