In the course of the meeting of the Committee on Education, Science and Culture, parliamentarians considered several legislative initiatives aimed at improving the norms of the law "On Education".
In the course of second reading the law-in-draft, aimed at changing the basic law and regulating the legal status of a teaching employee, the deputies considered the amendments. In particular, the parliamentarians decided to leave the wording in the law "an organization that carries out educational activities". As the representatives of the Ministry of Education explained to the Committee's deputies, unlike the educational organizations in the republic there are institutions for which the educational function is not profile. For example, the Research Institute of Agriculture, on the basis of which students of the State University are trained, graduate students. Taking into account the amendments, the deputies recommended adopting the law-in-draft in the second, final reading.
"To reject, to study the situation in more detail" - such a verdict was adopted by the parliamentarians to the government's legislative initiative aimed at allowing the inclusion in the programs of denationalization and privatization of objects that belong to the education sphere, but are not used for a long time. The parliamentarians noted that there are many such facilities in the republic, in most cases these are the so-called unfinished ones, which are a burden on the education system, are being destroyed, and are becoming unusable. At the same time, if these objects are in private hands, commercial enterprises may appear on the territories of educational institutions, which is unacceptable. According to the head of the committee Mikhail Burla, the problem exists and needs to be studied. Following the discussion, it was recommended to reject the law-in-draft with the possibility of further consideration of the issue within the framework of the working group.
Members of the responsible committee recommended that in the second, final reading, legislations providing for changes in the norms of the laws "On Higher and Post-Graduate Education" and "On Education" are adopted. According to the legislations drafted by the chairman of the profile committee Mikhail Burla, the graduates of schools will take only two compulsory exams in the subjects "native language" and "mathematics", the results of which they can use when entering the university. Or, entering the higher educational institution, the entrant can choose introductory tests. The law-in-draft also provides for the validity of the USE results for admission to the university for five years.
Deputies of the Committee fully supported the position of the author of the legislations.