The Parliamentary Committee on Education, Science and Culture considered the legislative initiative of the deputies of the Tiraspol City Council concerning the requirements for teachers working on an individual entrepreneurial patent. We are talking about such activities as teaching foreign languages, music, choreography, tutoring in various disciplines, organizing sports or other sections. The conditions under which these entrepreneurs will be allowed to teach children are proposed to be prescribed in the law "On an individual entrepreneurial patent".
As the deputy of the capital city council Dmitry Ivashchuk explained, training services are nothing but pedagogical activity, and hence the requirements for the work of these individual entrepreneurs should be the same as for the rest of the education sector.
The legislative committee recommended the adoption of the legislative initiative in the first reading.
The law-in-draft, developed by parliamentarian Vitaly Kalin and considered by the deputies of the profile committee, refers to the process of teaching children. The author of the law-in-draft proposed to provide for the possibility in the law "On Education" of the possibility of speech therapy for students, if necessary. In his opinion, this function should be implemented by pedagogical psychologists.
Representatives of the Ministry of Health ascertained that the activity of the speech therapist is more governed by the legislation concerning the education of children with disabilities. The work of speech therapy cabinets is generally regulated at subordinate level. At the same time, as a whole, there are not enough specialists in this sphere.
The chairman of the committee, Mikhail Burla, outlined the problem. The Committee recommended that the law-in-draft be adopted on first reading and, when further considering, take into account the suggestions made during the discussion.