Education in Russia: News

Are boys falling behind girls in education in Russia? That is what is happening in the US. I think a big reason is feminists are in charge of academia in the US.


https://fcpp.org/2019/02/09/why-men-are-falling-behind-in-schools/


https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2018/05/07/why-are-so-many-campus-feminists-anti-male/

Just want to know is vocational technical education valued in Russia and other countries outside of the US? I think the death of the shop class as well as the overemphasis on everybody going to college played a role.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarabrown/2012/05/30/the-death-of-shop-class-and-americas-high-skilled-workforce/?sh=44dc0cfc541f&fbclid=IwAR0WMXSUatox1pFvwRMWQ-lhtWjal5pezDKOkwk0TwhHB4NAd73vM3lJEkk



From A Critical Review of Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft


...the skilled trades are undervalued in America. They are undervalued in the American educational system that has systematically eliminated shop class. They are undervalued in the collective consciousness that views them as lowly, “blue collar”, dirty, unprofessional. But, the funny thing is that there is one place where they are actually not undervalued at all, and that is in the marketplace, which has seen a greater and greater demand for the skilled craftsman, be he a carpenter, electrician, machinist, mechanic, and so on. On account of his being in demand, the skilled tradesman has his choice of jobs, needs answer to no one, and earns a living wage, perks that are not to be scoffed at in this economic environment.

http://apprehensiontheory.blogspot.com/2011/05/critical-review-of-matthew-crawfords.html

Ministry of Education returns basic military training lessons to schools

Primary military training will be taught in Russian schools again, a corresponding proposal was received from the Ministry of Education as part of the main program of secondary general education. The document has already been published on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

According to the new program, it is proposed to introduce NVP for students in grades 10-11. True, military training will not be taught as a separate subject, as it was in the USSR, NVP will be introduced into the Fundamentals of Life Safety (OBZH). It is planned to launch two courses, one of which will be devoted to medicine, the second - to military training.

As part of the first, called "Fundamentals of Medical Knowledge and First Aid", high school students will learn first aid for various injuries or ailments, wounds, etc. The program is quite broad and will cover not only the application of bandages and splints and the like, but also help with various poisonings, burns, drowning, etc. In addition, students will be taught how to deal with various epidemics.

The second course, entitled "Elements of Basic Military Training", will include the rules for handling weapons , high school students will study the main machine gun of the Russian army AK-74, offensive and defensive hand grenades RGD-5 and F-1, and study the tactics of military personnel as part of a motorized rifle departments on the BMP. Also, this course will include the study of personal protective equipment, first aid on the battlefield, the creation of individual shelters from enemy fire, as well as camouflage of equipment.

The topics given are not a complete list of what high school students will learn in the lessons of initial military training, a complete list is given in the corresponding document. Most likely, the CWP lessons will be introduced from the new academic year, although it is possible that earlier.

https://topwar-ru.translate.goog/204243-ministerstvo-prosveschenija-vozvraschaet-v-shkolu-uroki-nachalnoj-voennoj-podgotovki.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

Putin signs law to prohibit unnecessary modern anglicisms in education and other "official" spheres.
https://m.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2023/02/28/19855063.shtml

Exceptions are when there are no analogues/direct synonyms in the Russian language.

God damn I wish this would happen here in Europe. I don't mind English, evidently, but it still infuriates me when I hear lazy anglicisms being used in lieu of perfectly acceptable (and far more intelligent sounding) native terms.

Among kids it's extra bad. Oftentimes it is evident that they don't even know the actual native word for something.

You can't legislate how people talk in private, and you can't stop languages from evolving, but it is a good initiative to clean up official channels at least.

flamming_python wrote:The first building of the new Lomonosov science & technology cluster of the Moscow State University looks to have been completed.

Inaugurated too. They are incorporating co working space for students who are interested in starting startups. All very nice, but the problem is, to meet the increased cost, Lomonosov attracts a lot of foreign students who mostly come from third world countries of Africa and Asia. Already too many such coloured students in Moscow/Russia. We don't need more but Sobyanin doesn't share these concerns.

It is the future... and it will make Russia great again.

Tolstoy wrote:..too many such coloured students in Moscow/Russia. We don't need more

Weakling

At the end of the day people are people... there are good people and bad people... and just like bad people don't have warning labels saying they are bad people, skin colour, eye colour, hair colour are not indications of anything useful at all.

Get to know them... they might be real pricks, or they could become the best friend you ever had... but that has nothing to do with their skin colour... unless you make it like that and then the problem is with you.

But of course you wont listen to this... such beliefs are deeply rooted and didn't arrive easily and likely wont be changed easily either.

There was an RT documentary about some black Americans whose family went to the Soviet Union in the 1930s because they were engineers and couldn't get work in the US. They worked in the USSR and were treated with respect and got good jobs... some went back to the US in the 1990s and their families reunited with old family ties.
In the 2010s one young black woman who had heard all these stories wanted to see for herself and she went over. She was in a large city and a policeman came up to her to talk to her. Growing up in the US she was scared, but he said hello and she replied in Russian, which surprised him, and she explained what she was doing. The policeman went away and came back... with flowers for her. She was surprised to say the least.

Respect to that police officer... would that happen in the US?

I know Russia excels at Math education but how is calculus, statistics and personal finance taught in Russia schools?

Do you guys agree with this author that Calculus is overrated and Statistics is underrated?

https://stanfordreview.org/calculus-is-overrated-why-we-should-prioritize-statistics-ec8b147389a3/