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Dmitry Chernyshenko took part in a strategic session on the development of education
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov, Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov, Head of Rosmolodezh Grigory Gurov and Head of Rosobrnadzor Anzor Muzaev took part in the strategic session chaired by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
The event summed up a series of strategy sessions under his leadership – on personnel, engineering education and the quality of education in general. It discussed issues of developing the Strategy for the Development of Education until 2036 with a perspective until 2040.
Dmitry Chernyshenko noted that the strategy is being prepared on the instructions of President Vladimir Putin. This is work of unprecedented scale in the modern history of Russia. It involves the widest range of participants – teachers, scientists, public figures, representatives of various ministries and departments, students and their parents. All entities are also involved – a meeting with regional education ministers has already been held, and regional and district sessions have taken place.
“Here, in the Coordination Center, we receive feedback from various sources. We have already collected more than 338 thousand opinions from citizens, including more than 45 thousand proposals through the public services portal. Thus, the strategy is being prepared by the entire country. 14 working groups are developing proposals and analyzing materials – this is more than a thousand experts,” the Deputy Prime Minister said.
The process is coordinated by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs and the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science. An active discussion of the strategy took place during the government hour at the State Duma. Dmitry Chernyshenko thanked the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and the deputies for the productive dialogue and the decisions that are being followed up by legislation.
Answering the question of why the strategy is needed, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that a huge number of different participants are involved in the education system. The strategy will consolidate uniform principles and approaches to the educational process and will become its main guideline.
In addition, it is necessary to create a sovereign education system that will unite society, reveal the potential of each person and ensure Russia’s leadership in technological, cultural and social development.
“The key mission is to train and educate professionals, patriots of Russia, who preserve traditions and shape the future. This meets the national goals set by the President. It is important that we do not propose revolutionary changes in the education system, but only an evolutionary approach, when we take the best that we have accumulated since Soviet times. The strategy will be based on the best traditions and practices of the scientific and pedagogical national school, as well as the main achievements of the past decades,” said Dmitry Chernyshenko.
Minister of Education Sergey Kravtsov noted that at the strategy session, the Chairman of the Government was presented with the first approaches to the Strategy for the Development of Education for the period up to 2036 with a perspective up to 2040.
“This event is important for the entire country. We have received approval, and instructions have already been given for its further implementation. At the meeting, all issues facing the education system were considered in detail. This includes increasing teachers’ salaries, reducing the bureaucratic burden, unified educational programs, and improving the quality of natural science education. We also discussed the results that have already been achieved. Based on them, we must move forward, taking into account the challenges facing the education system and the country. I would like to emphasize that it is important to act evolutionarily, to be guided by the principle of “do no harm,” “the Minister of Education said.
He drew attention to the fact that the student and teacher are at the center of the strategy. The Minister of Education added that it is very important not to lower the quality of education and to rely on effective solutions in the field of education. The head of the department recalled that all indicators of the national project “Education” have been achieved. More than 1,600 schools, 1,688 kindergartens have been built, almost 5 thousand schools have been overhauled. By 2030, the task is to bring all schools in the country to a standard condition.
Speaking about how higher education will change within the framework of the Education Development Strategy, the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Valery Falkov noted that the changes will be comprehensive and will affect all areas of activity of Russian universities. At the center of this major work is the transition to a new model of higher education, which is based on three key principles: fundamentality, practice-orientedness and flexibility. They will be reflected in new educational standards and the mechanism for their rapid update, and a new list of relevant specialties will also be formed.
The head of the Ministry of Education and Science emphasized that the task of the entire higher education system is to prepare professionals with a broad outlook, creative, critical thinkers, who love the Motherland and are ready to work for its benefit.
“Working on the Education Development Strategy together with colleagues, we propose a set of measures that will strengthen intergenerational dialogue between children and adults, make opportunities more accessible for every young person in our country, and create high-quality content based on our traditional spiritual and moral values. All these measures are aimed at creating a single educational space at all stages of growing up and becoming a young person,” said Grigory Gurov, head of Rosmolodezh.
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