Education in Russia: News

Modern Hebrew spoken in Israel is a language revived from nothing. And very successfully too. An artificial language even, as it differs as much from ancient Hebrew as modern Greek does from ancient Greek. It was formalized by some Belarussian Jew in the beginning of the 20th century or something and then that work was adopted by the Zionist movement.

While Israel is kind of a fake country of course, there is no denying the role that this language has played in the cementation of their statehood and identity.

You can argue that small, local languages are useless and doomed but what if you made that argument about religions, or about peoples themselves. Wouldn't it be better if the entire world's population had the same identity, spoke the same language, all looked the same, and had the same belief system. According to some, that will solve all the world's problems and remove the reasons that everyone is at each others throats.
Of course though that's nonsense. And not only nonsense, I suspect that more than a few people will object too. Because belief systems are subjective, national identities are subjective, native languages are subjective - but they all have value to the particular people that they belong to. That on the whole though being everyone though; as we all have native languages, national identities and belief systems. Some are under threat and some aren't, that's the only difference.
And since we're all human, if an aspect of our experience such as knowing one's ancestral language being important to enough people isn't criteria enough to make it a priority for society towards on the whole, no less so than other common interests such as protecting the environment, saving endangered species, etc... then what is?

So yeah, I can totally get behind language support schemes and language revivals.
Star Trek style communicator, real-time auto-translation devices do look like they're only a matter of decades away. But I think that after humanity has spent some more time adjusting to this technology, it can actually end up preserving minor languages. No longer will it be necessary to teach kids in the regional lingua franca at school or at least not exclusively in the lingua franca. They simply have all their speech and writing auto-translated regardless. We can already see that here on this forum with a couple of members who I've noticed use Google translate to read everything in their own language and write everything in English.

During the Soviet era a lot of the reading materials had Ukrainian versions. Not sure about sciences specifically but definitely a lot of the humanities as well as fiction, etc... And these Ukrainian-language books were all over the stores. This is what I heard at any rate.
Because essentially the language while confined to the villages and West of the country in colloquial use, seemed to have been marketed as a sort of intellectual language in print as well, for the higher-brow reader.

When I traveled to Belarus I observed the same phenomenon. The country itself was being "Belarussified" in the public sphere, in a soft non-invasive sort of way, so things like the metro signs and announcements, and stuff like that. On the streets meanwhile all you ever heard was Russian. But when you go into the book store, you notice that the proportion of Belarussian-language literature is very high, considering the dominance of Russian in Minsk. Maybe a 1/3rd of all the books on sale. A lot of high brow stuff among them. And some books were bilingual Russian/Belarussian, which would have been a waste of ink for ordinary consumption as anyone who knows the later surely knows the former, but for someone who wanted to practice their Belarussian - it would have been just the ticket.

The Ukr language is a political project just like Ukria itself. It follows that it would have gaps such as you see in the science field. Sure, there was an
Ukr dialect in use by the peasants in the west of Bolshevik concocted Ukraine. But this language did not have any presence in written literature until
after 1900. All the "Ukrainian" literature before then was written in Russian.

Taras Schevchenko was writing mostly in Ukrainian.

caveat emptor wrote:Taras Schevchenko was writing mostly in Ukrainian.

Schevchenko was the original Ukro nationalist

Complaining about the Moskals in letters to his brother and that his brother's kids wrote to him in Russian instead of a 'human language' (by which he means Ukrainian)

Sanctions convinced Russians of the possibilities of domestic education, by Marina Lemutkina for VZGLYAD. 02.12.2024.

Sanctions stimulated the country to import substitution and healthy selfishness, with these words experts comment on the results of a survey on the reaction of Russians to Western sanctions directed against Russian education. Sanctions in this area, according to Russians, either did not affect our country at all, or even contributed to the growth of the quality of domestic education.

The very first blows of anti-Russian sanctions turned out to be very painful for students from Russia studying at foreign universities. “We received appeals from parents, from students themselves. Various life situations began, oppression, various kinds of incidents - everyday, simple, everyday. Students from Russia became uncomfortable. And this is not one or two or ten people, but hundreds and even thousands,” Valery Falkov, head of the Ministry of Education and Science, described the situation a year ago.

Indeed, sanctions, including in the field of education, have become a serious challenge for our country. “This also applies to our youth, who are faced with a number of challenges,” admitted the head of the Russian government, Mikhail Mishustin. The West was rapidly destroying long-term scientific and educational inter-university ties, blocking academic mobility and exchanges, and complicating the circulation of curricula, scientific ideas and personnel that had existed for decades.

The Czech Republic, Poland, Great Britain, France, Austria, and Finland especially aggressively squeezed Russian students out of their universities. However, the same processes took place in other Western countries - the USA, the Netherlands, Germany. As a result, by the end of the 2022-2023 academic year, Russian universities accepted two and a half thousand Russian students expelled from universities in unfriendly countries.

The exodus of Russian students from Western universities has not yet ended. But in the end, Mishustin stated, the sanctions backfired on their authors. But our country is adapting to new conditions, having overcome the negative effect of Western sanctions, in particular in the field of education.

The Russian government has developed an action plan. To begin with, a simplified mechanism for transferring students from foreign universities to domestic ones has been launched. But the matter will not be limited to emergency measures. The education system is facing large-scale changes.

“Under the conditions of sanctions and restrictions, domestic enterprises especially need employees - developers of promising equipment, systems engineers, programmers, and representatives of a huge list of other specialties that are necessary to strengthen industrial potential.

To solve these problems, the Russian education system must become more modern and competitive on the world stage. <...> Now the world is going through another stage of changing technological structures, which is leading to a transformation of the requirements for existing specialties, as well as to the rapid emergence of new professions that require deep competencies in innovative areas. And of course, we need to more actively attract talented young people into the field of research. This will be facilitated by a large number of events within the framework of the Decade of Science and Technology, which was announced by the head of state in 2022,” Mishustin said in early January 2024.

In particular, a network of new world-class university campuses is being equipped in different regions of the country (on February 1, 2024, campuses were opened in Moscow, Bashkiria, Tatarstan and Ugra; in total there will be 25 such supercampuses ). In parallel, “Advanced Engineering Schools” are being created on the basis of 30 universities, where more than two thousand young people are already studying.

However, the most interesting thing is perhaps something else. Following the state, society also accepted the challenge posed to Russia by sanctions in the field of education. Thus, according to a December survey by the Synergy University analytical center, 26% of Russians believe that the situation with Western sanctions has a positive impact on the development of the education system in Russia, and only 16% see this as a negative impact.

An important positive consequence of the sanctions, according to Russians, was Russia’s abandonment of the Bologna education system and the building of its own approach with an emphasis on the interests of the national economy. This position was expressed by 35% of respondents.

Also, among the important advantages, respondents identified an increase in the quality of education due to the development of new educational directions (29%), strengthening of patriotic education (19%) and the influx of foreign students from countries friendly to Russia (17%).

This reaction, including regarding the abandonment of the Bologna system, has a completely rational explanation, Vadim Lobov, president of the Synergy corporation, explained to the VZGLYAD newspaper.

“The Bologna process is one of the most obvious manifestations of cooperation between the Russian education system and the Western one. It is with Russia’s accession to this system that the brain drain from the country is most often associated,” says Lobov. – The guys studied in Russia, the state spent energy and resources on them in the hope that they would work in their country, produce new products or services. But some of them went abroad first on exchange, and then stayed there forever, largely under the influence of propaganda rather than real advantages. Now Russia has withdrawn from the Bologna process – and this flow has stopped. Of course, from the point of view of society and the state, this is positive, which is confirmed by the survey.”

The authors of the study also found out how the situation with sanctions, as observed by Russians, influenced the choice of profession by students. Amid sanctions, a number of foreign companies left Russia and a significant number of jobs became vacant. As a result, demand among Russians has increased for professions that were not previously particularly popular - for example, workers and engineers (this point of view is shared by 34% of survey participants).

According to 27%, the number of young people who want to study and work in Russia or in friendly countries has increased. Well, 21% believe that sanctions do not play any role when students choose a future career or specialization.

58% of respondents believe that sanctions did not have any impact on the educational system at all. Meanwhile, 41% of respondents from among those who see restrictions as having a predominantly negative impact on the education system in Russia (recall that this is only 16%) noted that sanctions have caused difficulties with studying abroad, but the majority (63%) say that This means that sanctions only partially prevent students from gaining international learning experience. About 30% do not see any obstacles and only 7% believe that sanctions completely limit students’ opportunities to get an education or internship abroad.

The situation is obvious. “About 11 thousand sanctions and restrictions have been imposed against Russia, which to varying degrees affects almost all areas of our life. Therefore, we look at the branch of education that we understand through this prism. It turned out that the sanctions, contrary to expectations, had a very limited, targeted effect, and in some ways even stimulated the country to import substitution and healthy selfishness, which is also noticeable to many. Hence the positive assessments,” Lobov commented on the survey results.

https://vz.ru/society/2024/2/12/1249648.html

The hater retards in NATzO couldn't help their base impulses to attack Russians. So they lost a generation of potential pro-western recruits. It is common to see
around the world people taught in NATzO universities acting like enablers of NATzO's imperial agenda.

Keep huffing and puffing with hate NATzO. It won't save you.

International student from Zambia gives a tour of the new university campus for the Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg) that was commisioned recently

Looks nice and spiffy

More than 400 more schools will be built in Russia by the end of this year. This was announced by President Vladimir Putin on October 3 at a meeting with winners of all-Russian competitions in the field of education.

"We have already built, I think, 1.4 thousand schools, and another 400 plus should be built by the end of the year. We have already renovated over four thousand schools," the head of state noted.

He added that he had already visited some of the renovated schools and could confirm that “the standard of such educational institutions is very good.”

In addition, the president noted that Russian authorities should pay attention to schools and libraries in new regions , since the situation there is deplorable due to the attitude of previous leaders.

At the end of August, the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergey Kravtsov reported that by September 1, 1.3 thousand schools had been put into operation in Russia. Including 132 modern schools that had opened by the beginning of the school year. The authorities also plan to renovate 4.5 thousand educational institutions by the end of the current year, the head of the department noted.

In December, at a meeting of the State Council on the role of teachers and mentors, the Russian President emphasized that all victories are laid in school; this is the foundation for society and the state.

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franco wrote:More than 400 more schools will be built in Russia by the end of this year. This was announced by President Vladimir Putin on October 3 at a meeting with winners of all-Russian competitions in the field of education.

"We have already built, I think, 1.4 thousand schools, and another 400 plus should be built by the end of the year. We have already renovated over four thousand schools," the head of state noted.

Now, just for your understanding, how big was the USSR. As of 1991, there were 69,700 schools in the USSR. Just think about these numbers.