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Source: Government of the Russian Federation – Government of the Russian Federation –
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Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko and Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov held an All-Russian meeting with the heads of executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation implementing state administration in the field of education.
The event summed up the results of the 2024/2025 academic year and identified the key tasks facing the education system in the new 2025/2026 academic year.
Dmitry Chernyshenko thanked the teachers for implementing the key initiatives and events of the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland, declared by President Vladimir Putin. He also expressed words of gratitude to the veterans of the Great Patriotic War and participants in the special military operation, who continue to defend Russia's sovereignty today.
The Deputy Prime Minister noted that, starting last year, on the instructions of President Vladimir Putin, work began on the Strategy for the Development of Education for the Period up to 2036. It combines best practices and innovative approaches, defines clear guidelines for the future, allows for the systematic implementation of set tasks, and guarantees continuity and sustainable development.
"All our achievements were possible thanks to the strategic vision and support of the President. At the initiative of Vladimir Putin, the national project "Education" was launched, which was completed in 2024. As a result, schools, colleges and universities across the country received new opportunities for development. The groundwork created formed the basis for moving forward – already within the framework of the new national project "Youth and Children", – added Dmitry Chernyshenko.
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On September 1, more than 18 million children, including about 1.5 million first-graders, will go to 40 thousand schools across the country. In 28 regions, 43 new schools will be ceremonially opened.
Last academic year, an important step was taken towards creating a comfortable and accessible educational environment for students with disabilities.
One of the priority tasks for the new academic year is the development of natural science education. The indicators of the choice of the Unified State Exam in these subjects demonstrate positive dynamics.
This year, 40 thousand specialists graduated from pedagogical universities. There are more than 1 million teachers in Russia. About 30 thousand vacancies are posted on the "Work of Russia" service. In the new academic year, the task is to make teachers' salaries more fair and transparent, as well as to optimize staffing schedules. Also, on August 11, changes to the legislation came into force: students of pedagogical universities received the right to teach in schools and colleges after the 3rd year.
The Deputy Prime Minister thanked the participants for organizing the admissions campaign in colleges.
"Since 2019, the number of students entering colleges has grown by 200,000 people per year. This is a significant increase. And the number of 9th-grade graduates wishing to obtain secondary vocational education has increased by 15%. The admissions campaign is ongoing, but today applicants have already submitted over 3 million 300 thousand applications – 890 thousand more than last year. This is largely due to the successful implementation of the federal project "Professionalism" of the national project "Youth and Children", – he said.
930 thousand applications were submitted for the "Professionality" programs – 1.7 times more than last year. Schoolchildren's interest in technical specialties is growing. 506 clusters were created in 86 regions, including 13 clusters – this year in new regions and border areas. Industrial partners are about 2.5 thousand enterprises, and the volume of investment in colleges exceeded 8.5 billion rubles.
"Education of patriotic, socially responsible citizens based on traditional values is one of the national goals set by our President Vladimir Putin. Educational organizations have introduced positions of advisors to directors on education and interaction with children's public associations. Such advisors have appeared in more than 28 thousand schools and about 3 thousand colleges across the country. The work of advisors should be assessed based on real changes in the educational environment. As part of systematic work on education, we are together forming civic responsibility, values and social skills in the younger generation, which will live and govern our country," noted Dmitry Chernyshenko.
He also recalled that the President set the task of introducing the position of advisor to the director on education in all schools in the country.
In conclusion, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that educational work should continue to be carried out on the basis of traditional spiritual and moral values of Russia and be focused on achieving specific, measurable results in the educational environment.
"Today we are holding the All-Russian Conference of Regional Ministers of Education, with representatives from all 89 regions of our country taking part. We are facing new important tasks, and we ask you to pay the most serious attention to them. First of all, I would like to thank you, dear colleagues, for your work. Tomorrow we are holding the All-Russian Pedagogical Congress. The first such congress took place in 1925, and 100 years later we are reviving this tradition. At the congress, we will discuss the strategy for the development of education," said Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov.
More than 1.2 thousand people will take part in the work of the pedagogical congress – these are public teachers, school principals, winners of professional competitions of the Ministry of Education. The participants will discuss the Strategy for the Development of Education for the Next Decade, work on which is being carried out on the instructions of the President
"We relied in our work on the decision of Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin's strategic session. The strategy was discussed in all pedagogical universities, in all regions, a huge array of data was collected, which was used to the maximum extent during its development and will be used in a comprehensive plan for the implementation of the strategy. Our work does not end there, because the discussion is important to us," noted Sergey Kravtsov.
The head of the Ministry of Education presented the key achievements of the past academic year in the areas of general education policy, upbringing, secondary vocational education, infrastructure, personnel reserve and management.
Thus, in recent years, significant results have been achieved in the development of educational infrastructure. Since 2019, 1,688 kindergartens for children under 3 years old have been opened, more than 20 thousand places have been created in private preschool institutions, and 1,644 schools for more than 1 million students have been built. In 2024, this work was continued – the construction of 293 schools was completed and 847 buildings of educational institutions were overhauled. This year, it is planned to open 80 new schools and repair 1,279 buildings, which will create comfortable conditions for children's education.
The department, together with Rosmolodezh and the Ministry of Education and Science, is conducting systematic work on education, and formalism is unacceptable in this area, the head of the Ministry of Education noted.
Sergey Kravtsov also presented the interim results of the summer health campaign: over two shifts, 4.5 million children were covered by organized forms of recreation and health improvement.
The head of the Ministry of Education also outlined the tasks for the coming academic year. Among them is the implementation of the 704th order of the Ministry of Education, which is aimed at forming a single educational space. The order introduces a single lesson plan for individual subjects, regulates the number of tests, and also contains requirements for the workload of schoolchildren.
VK CEO Vladimir Kirienko spoke about the development of the national messenger Max. He noted that over four years of joint work with the Ministry of Education, education has become a systemic direction for the company, and effective services for students and teachers have been created.
During the All-Russian Conference of Regional Education Ministers, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko and Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov presented honorary certificates of the Russian Ministry of Education for consistently high work results. They were awarded to the Minister of Education of the Chuvash Republic Dmitry Zakharov, the Minister of Education of the Republic of Bashkortostan Ildar Mavletberdin, the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Mari El Larisa Revutskaya, the Minister of Education of the Voronezh Region Natalya Salogubova, and the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan Ilsur Khadiullin.
The title of "Honorary Worker of Education of the Russian Federation" was awarded to Konstantin Podrezov, Rector of the Tula State Pedagogical University named after Leo Tolstoy, and Maria Smagina, Minister of Education of the Stavropol Territory.
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