About what days Engel Fattakhov in the position of Minister of Education of the Republic of Tatarstan were considered, they began to talk in November. The reason for the rumors was about the study Tatar language that reached the Russian government. Fortunately, the point in this matter has been put. Probably, for many, Engel Fattakhov will be remembered by the person under whom the “ language conflict”, however, a number of important innovations were made under him.
The fight against requisitions
In 2012, Engel Fattakhov replaced Albert Gilmutdinov as Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan. According to human rights activists, one of the reasons for it was the numerous cases of school extortion. Sitting in the chair of the Minister of Education of the Republic of Tatarstan, Engel Fattakhov announced his desire to fight extortion. So, in 2014, he forbade collecting money from parents for any needs: repairing classes and schools, buying workbooks, etc. However, parents of schoolchildren continue to complain about the requisitions. As it turned out, some educational institutions came up with fundraising from both parents and teachers.
Learning foreign languages
Engel Fattakhov paid attention to foreign languages Special attention. According to him, testing in different classes showed that students do not know English well. In September 2014, Engel Fattakhov foreign language a compulsory subject for all first graders. In addition, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan has developed a map to improve training. So, in all 10th grades in 2018 year will pass testing in English with the section "speaking". Thus, according to him, the republic is preparing for the introduction of a mandatory USE in a foreign language.
Before the start of the academic year in 2015, the Minister of Education of the Republic of Tatarstan announced that in September six schools of the republic will start Chinese. The experiment involves a lyceum in the Bugulma district, a school in Sabinsky, Tatar gymnasium No. 1, gymnasium No. 6, schools No. 18, 35 of Kazan.
Testing in 4th grade
Tatarstan has developed a regional program for assessing the quality of education. In addition to the USE for graduates of 11th grade and the OGE for students of 9th grade, since 2015 testing for children graduating from 4th grade has started in Tatarstan. As Engel Fattakhov noted, it was introduced in order to regularly check the knowledge of students and get away from the perception of the USE as a psychological barrier.
Reduction of 10th and 11th grades
In 2015, Engel Fattakhov said that in order to improve the performance of the Unified State Examination, strong guys with good academic performance should be admitted to the 10th grade, and three and two students can be sent to colleges and technical schools.So the schools did, but the parents were unhappy new methodology. Therefore, after inspections by the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Tatarstan, a number of educational institutions either opened the 10th grade, or provided places for students in the existing ones.
Note that the problem of senior classes remains. In 2017, parents of schoolchildren again turned to the supervisory authority with a request to help transfer their children to the 10th grade.
Astronomy lessons
Since September 2017, astronomy has been in Kazan schools. The subject is studied by students of the 10th and 11th grades. Schools were provided with appropriate textbooks and teachers were retrained. It should be noted that the return of astronomy to schools is an all-Russian trend.
Introduction of a professional standard for teachers
In 2016, Engel Fattakhov said that the republic places special emphasis on providing quality education to all schoolchildren in the Republic of Tatarstan, regardless of their place of residence: city center, remote microdistrict, village. In this regard, he held two times in the form of the Unified State Examination for teachers, with which the teachers were extremely dissatisfied.
In addition, he will distribute 10 thousand laptops to teachers, upgrade working equipment and financially motivate teachers.
Tatarstan intends to declare itself to the world as a "separate state" ... in the field of education. For this, in the new academic year it will take part in the international comparative study of the quality of education PISA for the first time. “The results of our republic will be compared with the results of such states as Korea, Finland, Singapore, the USA,” the head of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan, Engel Fattakhov, outlined the goal at the republican August teachers' council, which was held yesterday in Muslyumovo.
The current teachers' council was devoted to the topic "Ethno-cultural and educational potential of the education system of the Republic of Tatarstan", which sounded especially relevant in the light of Vladimir Putin's recent statement that it is unacceptable to force citizens to learn a non-native language and reduce Russian teaching hours. However, the Minister of Education of Tatarstan, stating that the president did not mean our republic.
Engel Fattakhov began his speech at yesterday's plenary session with achievements. He recalled: the USE this year has graduates than last year, and in the Russian language, Tatarstan graduates, with their average score of 72.5, surpassed St.
In terms of the number of winners of the Olympiads, Tatarstan retains the third place after Moscow and St. Petersburg. Principals of our schools for the second year in a row are among the top three in all-Russian competition.
The minister then moved on to problems. One of them is a big gap in USE results between leading schools and outsiders. In particular, in the Russian language, a whole gulf lay between the worst and the best in the Zelenodolsk region, Kirovsky and Moscow regions of Kazan. The same situation with mathematics.
- Even in small schools, they could not properly prepare children for exams. So, in one of the schools of the Alekseevsky district there was only one graduate - and he passed mathematics with 27 points. IN rural school Alkeyevsky district - only two students, and also GPA 27! - the minister was indignant.
Fattakhov stressed that in improving the educational process important role play different assessments of the quality of education.
- In 2018, for the first time, the republic will take part in the international comparative study of the quality of education PISA, which allows positioning Tatarstan as a separate state ... The results of our republic will be compared with the results of such states as Korea, Finland, Singapore, the USA, - the head of the Ministry of Education solemnly announced.
The hall of the Muslyumovsky Palace of Culture reacted to the news with deathly silence. How else to react to the words about the separation of Tatarstan, when the agreement between Tatarstan and the federal center has died and is now on the political agenda.
The minister did not bypass the acute issue of studying two state languages in Tatarstan - Russian and Tatar. According to Fattakhov, a lot of work is being done to improve their teaching. But he focused exclusively on Tatar.
- The concept of teaching the Tatar language and literature was approved. This is a strategic document that sets the vector of development. The development and testing of new generation textbooks has begun, Fattakhov said.
Then he ardently addressed the heads of cities and regions:
- Please keep questions national education under personal control… Reports of high coverage of children with education in their native language in the absence of real education are self-deception. The effectiveness of Tatar schools, especially in cities, requires your attention. For the second year in a row, we give children the opportunity to take exams after grade 9 in eight subjects in the Tatar language. Considering that only 50% of children continue their education in the 10th grade, this is a good opportunity to complete basic education in their native language. At the same time, in such primordially Tatar districts as Atninsky, Sabinsky, Apastovsky, Kaybitsky, this year not a single student passed the OGE in Tatar.
Note, according to the Ministry of Education and Science, applications for passing the OGE in the last academic year, more than a thousand children applied in the Tatar language in the republic, but as a result, only 393 students from 25 municipalities decided to take exams in their native language.
This year, we have assigned responsibility for national education to the deputy heads of district departments of education. I think that in major cities separate employees should be allocated, whose duties will include the task of preserving and developing native languages. There is a good example in Kazan: they retained such positions in the city department of education and in the administrations of districts, - the minister praised the capital. And he cited as an example the Kazan Tatar gymnasium No. 2, which scored as many as five Tatar first grades this year.
Engel Fattakhov also asked the heads of municipalities to pay close attention to national education in kindergartens, as preschool age languages are best learned. In general, education in the native language today in Tatarstan covers 54% of Tatar children. According to the minister, this is not enough. And now he has already reprimanded Kazan:
- We studied the activities of 40 kindergartens with the Tatar language of education in Kazan. It turned out that only 24 teachers speak Tatar. Only a third of children continue their education in national schools. Based on the results of the audit, orgmeasures were adopted. In the new academic year, such monitoring will be carried out throughout the country.
Complaining about the low performance in teaching in native languages, Engel Fattakhov suggested that Rustam Minnikhanov, who was present at the teachers' council, revive the Research Institute of National Education at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan.
- The existing scientific potential will be used. This will not require financial investments, - the minister addressed the president.
At the end of his 40-minute speech, Fattakhov stressed that in matters of national education, Tatarstan is actively cooperating with the federal ministry and finds support in many respects.
- In the meantime, a number of unresolved issues remain... - said Fattakhov. - Until we find support for holding all-Russian verification work for grade 4 in native languages. The issue of writing dissertations in the native language has not been resolved; today it is impossible to do this even in Tatar philology. Alarming new educational standards V new edition. There are a number of provisions that need to be finalized, taking into account national regional characteristics.
Photos from the websites of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan
The promised week, during which Olga Vasilyeva must give in to Tatarstan, expires, the Minister of Education is waiting, and the department itself is turning its attention to other issues
Today Kazan hosted a council under the President of the Republic of Tatarstan on education and science. Strange as it may seem, they dedicated it not to the problem of studying the Tatar language, but to the reform of the Academy of Sciences. Seven Kazan research institutes were merged into one organization - the Federal Research Center, based on the Kazan scientific center RAN. The FASO leadership admonished: "there will be funds if there is a result." The meeting still attracted the attention of journalists from all media: both local and federal. They were interested, of course, not in the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, but in the fate of the Tatar language. We received a response, but not quite the one we expected. Details are in the material of Realnoe Vremya.
Engel Fattakhov did not comment on the issue of the Tatar language
The Council for Education and Science under the President of Tatarstan has never attracted the attention of so many journalists. And the Kazan Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where the event took place, clearly did not count on a large number of press. There were not enough chairs for everyone, and for an hour and a half the correspondents were forced to stand.
The attention of the media, including federal ones, flattered the scientists, but the journalists gathered not for the sake of science. Everyone expected to hear news about the fate of the Tatar language from the first persons - Rustam Minnikhanov and Engel Fattakhov. But, despite the relevance of the topic, not a word was said about it at the meeting.
At the end of the event, journalists tried to literally encircle Engel Fattakhov. Whether the Minister of Education hesitated and did not have time to leave the hall together with a mass of officials, or he deliberately stayed, - it is not clear. He did not give a specific answer to reporters.
“Please comment on the information circulated today that federal center will not change its position regarding the voluntariness of learning the Tatar language,” Realnoe Vremya's correspondent asked.
No, not until I do. We are waiting for now, - answered Engel Fattakhov.
How long are you waiting for? - the correspondent of Realnoe Vremya specified.
I don't know, - the minister answered and went towards the exit from the hall.
Will there be an answer this week? the journalist of Realnoe Vremya asked again.
I don't know yet. We wait.
Literally one question, Engel Navapovich ... - the journalists did not let up.
We wait. We are waiting, waiting for an answer from Moscow,” Fattakhov repeated, rapidly moving away from the journalists who were chasing him until he disappeared into his office.
The answer was to be sent by Olga Vasilyeva. Photo by Alexander Korolkov (rg.ru)
Letter from Olga Vasilyeva to Engel Fattakhov: two days left
The answer, we recall, was to be sent by Olga Vasilyeva. At a meeting of the State Council of Tatarstan on November 8, Engel Fattakhov reported to parliamentarians that at a meeting with the Moscow boss, he offered her some kind of compromise, and said that a preliminary consent had been received and “next week we expect a corresponding letter from the ministry.” It was about special curriculum for Tatarstan, which would provide for two hours a week of studying Tatar by everyone as the state language, and 2-3 hours - as part of the subject “ Native language” for those who choose it as their native.
A week after the loud statements, the Tatar language in schools continues to be studied voluntarily as part of the subject "Mother tongue". As Fattakhov stated at the same time, about 70% of parents chose Tatar as their “native language”.
The silence of the Tatarstan authorities, who never made public Vasilyeva's answer, gave birth to the assumption that there would still be no answer - the Ministry of Education of Russia does not intend to yield to Tatarstan and change the Federal State Educational Standards. As RBC reported today with reference to a federal official, the Kremlin will not change its position on the study of the Tatar language in schools - it should be studied on a voluntary basis.
Farid Mukhametshin, chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, did not bring clarity today either. According to him, Putin's order is now being fulfilled, and native languages are studied on a voluntary basis. “This is a rule for all national republics, there will be no exceptions for anyone. Representatives of all peoples living in our republic voluntarily study their native languages of their choice - 2-3 hours a week. This applies to Russians, and Tatars, and Chuvash, and Mari, and others. And the statement of Dmitry Peskov, who confirmed this: “Yes, indeed,” is quite logical and does not carry any sensation.”
The topic of the council concerned the reorganization of the Russian Academy of Sciences: seven Kazan research institutes were merged into one organization called the Federal Research Center
They asked for a billion, but they will receive 100 million: Kazan research institutes reported on the merger
The topic of the council, which today faded against the background of the language problem, concerned the reorganization of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Seven Kazan research institutes were merged into one organization called the Federal Research Center - these are the Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry, the Zavoisky Kazan Institute of Physics and Technology, the Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, the Institute of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering and the Research Center for Energy Problems. Tatar Research Institute will be added to them Agriculture and Tatar Research Institute of Agrochemistry and Soil Science. Plus, the FRC included a polyclinic of the KSC RAS. They promised to allocate more than 100 million rubles for the development of the new scientific center.
The calculation is based on a researcher, for this center it is more than 100 million in the first year for development, and we will continue to look, - commented Irina Chugueva, head of the department for coordinating the activities of scientific centers of the Office for Coordinating and Supporting the Activities of Organizations in the Field of Science of the FASO of Russia.
Oleg Sinyashin, chairman of the Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, director of the Arbuzov Institute of Physical Chemistry, headed the Kazan FRC. Rustam Minnikhanov was offered to head the Board of Trustees.
The center has serious potential, unique support from the leadership of the region, and we are ready to seek funds, but this will be ineffective if there is no development. There will be no penetration into education if there is no interest in these ideas from the industry, and here is our big task. I have no doubt that the indicators can be improved in the very near future, and we will be able to compare the Kazan Scientific Center not only with republican institutions, but also with the best centers in Russia and the world, - Mikhail Kotyukov, head of FANO, set the task.
Oleg Sinyashin headed the Kazan Federal Research Center. Photo kpfu.ru
Let us recall that earlier real time”published detailed material on the creation of the Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Arbuzov IOPC expected to receive about 1 billion rubles from the merger for several years to re-equip instruments. Representatives of other institutions were more restrained in their desires, having talked with colleagues from other regions who survived the merger, they came to the conclusion that funding could be significantly less: “Well, not zero, probably, but it can be very small,” commented Acting Zavoisky Institute Alexey Kalachev.
Daria Turtseva
Radio Azatlyk asked representatives of the national republics of Russia to comment on the words of President Putin on how Russian and native languages should be taught in the country's schools. "Idel.Realii" offer short translation material published in the Tatar language.
Minister of Education and Science of Tatarstan Engel Fattakhov: “In Tatarstan, the Tatar language is the state language for everyone. It is written in black and white in our Constitution. We operate within the law. Consensus reached. Educational programs correspond federal standards. There are no complaints from the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.”
Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan Rafael Khakimov: “Tatarstan has its own constitution and law on state languages. Based on these laws, both state languages are taught in the same volume. The Supreme Court of Russia ruled in this regard and recognized that it is absolutely legal. In order to exclude the teaching of the Tatar language, it will be necessary to change the Constitution. We hope it doesn't come to that."
Professor of the Faculty of History of the Bashkir state university Marat Kulsharipov: “These words of Putin are the next step in the creation of the Russian nation. The saddest thing is that high-ranking officials succumb to this. Now in Bashkortostan, the Bashkir language is not taught as a state language. Prosecutorial checks were even carried out - allegedly teaching Bashkir language as a state is against the law. It all comes down from above! They came up with the thesis of a single Russian nation and put it into practice.
Russia is on the way former Yugoslavia. There is a policy against the preservation of the language, history, traditions of non-Russian peoples. It's done on the sly."
Member of the Parliament (Il Tumen) of Yakutia, chairman of the public center Sakha Ivan Shamaev: “These words of Putin refer primarily to Tatarstan. It seems that only in this republic the teaching of the national language remains. If Tatarstan can adequately respond to this pressure, we will give a standing ovation. It would seem that in the national republics state languages should have been taught on a mandatory basis, but de facto this has long been absent in almost all republics.
I think Putin's words that national languages should be taught on a voluntary basis are what he really wants. The national republics are forced to bear the burden of preserving their own languages.
In Komi, the Komi language is not taught, in Buryatia the same way - these languages are threatened with extinction. But in Tatarstan the situation is different. He set an example for many. I hope the republic will defend its national rights.”
Recall that on July 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the teaching of Russian and national languages in the country.
Forcing a person to learn a language that is not native to him is just as unacceptable as reducing the level and time of teaching Russian in schools of the national republics of the Russian Federation. I draw special attention to this Russian Federation- Putin said at a meeting of the Council for Interethnic Relations, which was held in Yoshkar-Ola.
To study these languages is a right guaranteed by the Constitution, a voluntary right, - he noted.
