{"id":5,"date":"2008-04-23T19:29:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spbs.herzen.spb.ru\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:35:17","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About SCIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>SCIT offers a non-degree post-graduate professional training program which aims at producing highly qualified interpreters and translators capable of meeting the requirements of the international market. It is a cooperative effort of the language services of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the United Nations.<\/h5>\n<p>SCIT was founded at Herzen University in 2008. Every year, around\u00a015 highly-trained graduates leave the school to pursue international careers in translation and interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>70% of the School\u2019s graduates do internships with the UN. 41% of the School\u2019s graduates get full-time jobs with the Russian MFA and such international organizations as the UN, Medecins Sans Frontieres, and others.<\/p>\n<p>The courses at the School are designed and\u00a0taught exclusively by practicing interpreters and translators.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCIT offers a non-degree post-graduate professional training program which aims at producing highly qualified interpreters and translators capable of meeting the requirements of the international market. It is a cooperative effort of the language services of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the United Nations. SCIT was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7562,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/7562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}