On The Project

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On The Project Education, Well being and The
Emergent Economiesof Brazil, Russia and South
Africa, ESRC Rising Powers
1 step in education 100 steps in economy
New Russian strategy from innovations to
competencies

• Anna Shvedovskaya, Ph.DMoscow State University
  of Psychology and Education
• Russia

Oxford, UK October 3, 2011
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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 20112015 running now

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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 students
  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.

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Presidents 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
  Russias 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.

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Federal Target Programm for the Development of
Education 20112015

• 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.

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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 federations 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
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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-pedagogi
  cal personnel.
• Terms
• In 2009 2013 years 90,454 billion rubles will
  be allocated to this program

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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

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Budget and off-budget funding of general and
higher education
Pre-school children education General
education Primary professional
education Secondary professional
education Higher professional education
Proportion of off-budget education funding in
total amount of education funding
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Proportion of young people who want to get 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 200810 of graduates of primary professional
education programs enteredcolleges and higher
education institutions35 of college graduates
immediately entered colleges
Young people's involvement in education on the
way to mass higher education
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Prospective students achievements
Mark 2 - red Mark 3 - yellow Mark 4 - grey Mark 5
- green (exellent is 5)
Level of preparation of higher education
institutions enrollees (forfull-time state-funded
places)
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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.

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

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Average age of teachers
School Primary professional education Secondary
professional education Higher professional
education

• 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)

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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.

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The number of work permits issued in Russia
(thousands)
Labour migration grey total Included from the
CIS countries red From other countries - black
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The economically active population in Russia
(thousands)
Low grey Average black High red
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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.

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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
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The average teachers salary in Russia

• Today the average teachers salary in a regular
  school is approx. 12000 rubles. Average teachers
  salary is approx. 14000 rubles.
• Differences between regions are quite large. The
  average teachers 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
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Russians on their well-being

• Levada-Center 2011 ?.
• 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.

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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
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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
Didnt answer 1 1 lt1 2 2 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1
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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 
Didnt answer 9  6  7  11  11  11  11  12  13  11  13  7  7  6 
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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 Presidents
  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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Contact Us

• Anna Shvedovskaya, Ph.D
• Moscow State University of Psychology and
  Education
• www.mgppu.ru/en
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