On The Project «Education, Well being and The Emergent Economies of Brazil, Russia and South Africa», ESRC Rising Powers

Anna Shvedovskaya, Ph.D Moscow State University of Psychology and Education Russia

Oxford, UK October 3, 2011

New Russian strategy: from innovations to competencies

1 step in education – 100 steps in economy

Improvement of the Russian education system

Key official steps in education policy:

•  Federal State Program "Education“ – running now

•  National Education Initiative "Our new school” – running now •  Federal State Educational Standard – just started

•  The draft Law on Education – discussing now

•  Federal Target Program for the Development of Education 2011—2015 – running now

National Education Initiative "Our new school"

From February, 4-th 2010

Aims: •  School for everybody •  School of new technologies •  School as an interaction center for social and public institutions •  School with the New teacher •  School as a modern system of education quality assessment

Priorities of general education development: •  Transit to new educational standards •  Talented children support system development •  Improving of the quality of teacher education •  Change of the school infrastructure •  Preservation and strengthening of pupils’ health •  Extension of schools’ independence

Adoption of the Federal State Educational Standard

From September 1st, 2011

An instrument of state policy in education based on the new didactic model of education - competence-based educational paradigm, system-active approach and value of the parenting (vospitanie) aspect of the education process

It is meant to provide:

•  Equality and access to education for different starting opportunities •  Preservation of the unity of educational field in Russia •  Life-long learning and continuity of education

The Federal State Educational Standard establishes requirements for students’

achievements

•  Personal competence - students’ ability and readiness for self-development and personal identification, forming of their self-motivation for learning and purposeful cognitive activity, a system of valued personal and interpersonal relations, axiological and conceptual alignments reflecting personal and civil positions in activity, social skills, sense of justice, ability for goal-setting and life-planning.

•  Meta subject competence - development and mastering of inter-subject notions and universal learning actions (regulatory, cognitive, communicative) and ability to use them in learning, cognitive and social practice, independence in planning of educational activities and co-operation with teachers and classmates, creativity, ability for building an individual educational plan, skills in research and social activities

•  Subject competence - skills specific for a chosen area, gaining new knowledge within a school subject, its transformation and application in educational, research and social situations, development of scientific way of thinking, scientific notions of theories, types and kinds of relations, mastering scientific terminology and key concepts and ability to use it.

The draft Law on Education

Published on June 15 th, 2011 Public discussion in Russia - from December 1st , 2010 till February 1st 2011

Key points: •  Necessity of introduction of normative personal funding

for educational institutions •  Broadening of education system subjects. Employers,

social organizations take part not only in developing of state education policy (creation and control of federal education standards), but also in assessment of education quality

•  Emphasis on education of pupils with special needs in ordinary institutions providing integrative education

The draft Law on Education

The forthcoming law will introduce the notion of “parenting”.

Parenting - intentionally organized activity within the education system aimed at personal development, creation of conditions for student’s self-identification and socialization on the basis of socio-cultural, spiritual and moral values, socially-accepted rules and norms of conduct in the interests of individuals, families, society, state.

President’s assignments in the field of education

September 19th, 2011

President signs several assignments including those on education

•  Assignments were given to the Government of the Russian Federation on ensuring consistently high-quality educational programs, regardless of the type of general education institution; attracting young specialists and post-graduate students to teach core subjects corresponding to their areas of expertise at schools; equipping schools with educational and laboratory equipment required to meet government standards for core school education, as well as for student design and technical creativity.

•  The government and the executive authorities of Russia’s federal constituent entities were instructed to ensure improvement in teachers training, create a general education manager talent pool, and to modernise the system of teacher education in 2012-2013.

Federal Target Programm for the Development of Education 2011—2015

February 7th, 2011

The new program's key tasks are to upgrade the system of general and preschool education, bring professional education and training in line with the labor market demands, and develop a system of assessment of the education quality.

It will be carried out in 2011-2015.

157 billion rubles ($5.1bn) will be allocated to the program.

Indicators of evaluation of Federal Target Program for the Development of Education

Indicator 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

1 Level of availability of education 64 68 71 74 78

2 Level of meeting modern standards 91 92 93 95 97

3 Share of disabled children 35 40 50 60 71

4 Share of families in preschool education 71 78 85 90 97

5 Share of teachers who completed new address models training

8 25 45 65 85

6 Share of managers who completed advanced training in conformity with new requirements

20 28 38 49 60

7 Share of education systems of federation’s subjects and municipal institutions

7 26 38 76 100

8 Share of 9-grade graduates living in rural areas with distanced education

40 50 65 82 98

9 Share of students of professional education engaged in programs which involve employers

20 30 45 60 80

10 Share of employed graduates 74 78 82 87 92

The scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel of innovative Russia (2009 — 2013)

July 28th, 2008

Aim:

Creating conditions for efficient reproduction of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel and keeping young people engaged in science, education and technology, preservation of continuity of generations in science and education, creation of a system of renovation mechanisms for scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel.

Terms: In 2009 – 2013 years 90,454 billion rubles will be allocated to this program

State support of leading Russian universities

In 2009 it was decided to allocate additional financing to goal-oriented support of leading Russian universities. 90 billion rubles will be allocated from 2010 till 2012.

Directions of the support:

1. Support of development programs of the Moscow and St-Petersburg state univiersities

2. Support of federal universities with regard to modernization of research process and innovative activities

3. Support of national research universtities 4. Development of cooperation between the Russian universities and

production enterprises 5. Recruitement of leading scientists in the Russian universities 6. Development of innovative infrastructure in the Russian universities 7. Support of research projects realized in cooperation of leading universities

and research organizations

Budget and off-budget funding of general and higher education

Proportion of off-budget education funding in total amount of education funding

Pre-school children education

General education

Primary professional education

Secondary professional education

Higher professional education

Proportion of young people who want to get higher education

Young people's involvement in education on the way to mass higher education

Young people enrolled in primary professional education institutionsin proportion to total population of 15-year-olds

Young people enrolled in secondary professional education institutionsin proportion to total population of 15-year-olds

Young people enrolled in higher education institutions in proportionto total population of 17-year-olds

Up to 1/4 of young people receive professional education by successivestudying on main programs of different levels

According to Rosstat's data in 2008:10% of graduates of primary professional education programs enteredcolleges and higher education institutions35% of college graduates immediately entered colleges

Prospective students’ achievements

Level of preparation of higher education institutions enrollees (forfull-time state-funded places)

Mark 2 - red Mark 3 - yellow Mark 4 - grey Mark 5 - green

(exellent is 5)

The share of teachers who have other paid jobs

Teachers in universities (aroung 67 % each year), professional education institutions (42,2 % in 2006, 45,2 % in 2008 and 40,1 % in 2009) and schools (40,8% in 2006 and 36,2 in 2009) had additional paid jobs.

Secondary employment of teachers in professional education institutions increased from 29,8% in 2006 t0 35,7% in 2007 and then decreased to 32,3%.

Average incomes per month from different sources in higher education (thousand of rubles)

Average incomes of university teachers for teaching and administrative activity in this institution increased from 9,1 to 15,4 thousand of rubles per month in the period from 2006 till 2009, as well as for teaching in other institutions -

from 6,4 to 9,7 thousand of rubles per month.

Teaching and professional activity in this educational institution

Main place of employmentTeaching and administrative work in other educational institutions, programs

Scientific activity

Tutoring

Other additional work

Average age of teachers

Rejuvenation process among teachers in Russia is extremely slow. Share of lower grades teachers younger than 30 is lower than in other developing countries (13,7% of teachers with work experience of less than 10 years against 30% of the total number)

School

Primary professional education

Secondary professional education

Higher professional education

Migration

Scale of labour migration into Russia have been constantly growing during the last decade. In 2008 the number of official labour migrants in Russia approached 2,5 million.

Most migrants come to Russia for a year or more. Only 15-20% of them are short-term migrants, contrary to a popular point of view that considers labour migration seasonal.

In 2010 1 840 446 foreign citizens were registered in Moscow.

More than 80% of legal foreign workers are employed in six main fields: construction, wholesale and retail, agriculture, manufacturing activities, mining, transport and media.

The number of work permits issued in Russia (thousands)

Labour migration – grey; total Included from the CIS countries – red; From other countries - black

The economically active population in Russia (thousands)

Low – grey

Average – black

High – red

Prediction of education policy prospects. «Strategy 2020»

Successful solution of “innovative human-being” competence-forming tasks demands modernizing state education policy in a number of key directions. Advanced training of teachers, researchers and managers.

Development of support mechanisms for cooperation between universities and enterprises from innovation sector. Not less than 10% of university budget funding must be allocated to corresponding projects.

Development of continuos education system, creation of conditions (infrastructure) for constant training and improvement for all economically active population. An advanced training system for not less than 15-20% of employed citizens must be created by 2020.

Forming a system of university-based schools for gifted children. Each leading federal university will have such a school which will provide both regular and distanced education.

Indicators of results of the «Innovative human-being» program

Indicator (%) 2010 2013 2016 2020

Share of educated population aged 5-18 (%) 93,6 (2009) 94,6 96,6 97,0

Monthly nominal received salary in education, in % to general salary 67,2 75 80 100

Total share of students educated in federal standard programs:

general education primary and middle-grade professional education higher professional education

0 0 0

20 75 75

65 100 100

95 100 100

Share of graduates of professional education institutions employed in their specialization field for more than 3 years 45 51 55 60

Share of students participating in competitions of different levels 27 35 42,5 50

Share of population engaged in continuos education (for the last 12 months), aged 25-64 24,8 (2008) 30 40 55

The average teacher’s salary in Russia

Today the average teacher’s salary in a regular school is approx. 12000 rubles. Average teacher’s salary is approx. 14000 rubles.

Differences between regions are quite large. The average teacher’s salary in a regular school is 33 479 rubles in Moscow and 7 033 rubles in the republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessiya.

Indicator 2010 2013 2016 2020

Monthly nominal received salary in education, in % to general salary 67,2 75 80 100

Russians on their well-being

Levada-Center 2011 г.

Poll among a Russian sample of city and rural population including 1624 people aged from 18 in 130 population centers from 45 regions.

Answers distribution is shown in percentage from the total number of respondents including data of previous polls.

What statement is fit with your well-being?

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2011

Things are not bad, we can live 13  19 21  18  20  21  25  26  26  28  29

It is no longer possible to bear our miserable situation

31  21 21  24  22  24  18  17  15  14  16

How would you rate the current financial situation of your family?

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2011

Very good and

good 4 4 4 6 7 7 7 8 11 10 13 11 15 15

Average 44 41 36 46 51 53 55 55 55 57 54 57 61 60

Very bad and bad 51 54 60 46 40 37 37 35 33 31 32 31 23 24

Didn’t answer 1 1 <1 2 2 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1

How would you rate the economic situation in Russia?

1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2009  2010  2011 

Very good and good 1  1  1  2  2  3  3  4  6  10  13  8  8  12 

Average 20  14  9  26  31  36  36  41  39  44  47  46  51  47 

Very bad and bad 70  79  83  61  56  50  50  43  42  35  27  39  34  35 

Didn’t answer 9  6  7  11  11  11  11  12  13  11  13  7  7  6 

References

•  mon.gov.ru - Draft law on education and its discussion •  fcp.economy.gov.ru — Russian federal target programs (after 2010) •  www.programs-gov.ru — Russian federal target programs (before 2010) •  www.fcpro.ru- Federal target program for the development of education for 2011 - 2015 •  http://fcp.economy.gov.ru — Target indicators of the Federal target program for the development of education

http://mon.gov.ru — National education initiative “Our new school” •  http://www.odardeti.ru - Federal target program “Gifted children” •  http://www.fcpk.ru — Federal target program “Scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel of innovative

Russia” •  http://standart.edu.ru/ — State education standards •  http://2020strategy.ru/ — Strategy 2020 •  http://education-monitoring.hse.ru — Education economic monitoring •  http://www.kpmo.ru — Electronic monitoring of schools’ transition to new generation standards •  http://www.mamso.ru — Interregional association for monitoring and statistics •  http://kremlin.ru/assignments — President’s assignments •  http://www.komitet8.km.duma.gov.ru — Education committee of the Lower House of the State Duma http://

mon.gov.ru/ - Ministry of education and science •  http://www.educom.ru/ - Moscow Department of education

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