"The Textbook" Program and the Draft Budget

The Committee on Education, Science and Culture recommends approval of the state target program "The Textbook". It is necessary to provide educational institutions with educational literature. Educational and literary fund of the Ukrainian and Moldovan schools and kindergartens, special (correctional) educational institutions and secondary vocational education institutions is in badly need of upgrading. The program will last five years. Initially, it was about the sum of 6.5 million rubles. The Committee during this meeting the representatives of the MOE identified the need for increase funding, taking into account last year not paid services publishing history textbooks for grades 10 and 11. Payment of the publishing and printing services must be spent nearly 173 thousand rubles. Due to lack of funds the high school students started the school year without the necessary literature (printed books are in print shop). Parliamentarians consider it necessary to ask relevant ministry to meet the request. Necessary amendments will be issued to the Plenary.

Whether "The Textbook" program is financed, it will be known only after the adoption of the budget 2017. The program does not appear in its design, as the budget was imposed on the basis of already adopted in its design. The project itself is the main financial document under consideration by the Supreme Council. Members of the Education Committee of the interest profile of the article. Representatives of the Ministry of Finance talked about the social orientation of the budget-2017: 75.3% of the total planned expenditure attributed to the socio-protected articles.

It planned to spend 260.6 million rubles in 2017 direly for education. These funds should be sufficient to train 5813 students of secondary vocational education, 5274 college students, 908 pupils of boarding schools and other students.

The state maintenance costs per student amount to little more than 10,200 rubles a year. Scholarship Fund is 15.9 million rubles. 120,000 will be spent on the payment of presidential awards to the best students. There are scholarships for orphans. Regardless of the performance of their size will be 207.9 rubles - 15% of the subsistence minimum, which will be equal to 1386 rubles in 2017.

20 million rubles is allocated in the scientific sphere. Another million is the Republican Fund of development of science and innovation. Mikhail Burla is interested in the mechanism of the distribution of these funds, noting that they were not used for other purposes in the past year. They asked about the size of minimum wage. It is planned for the calculation of salaries and pensions at the level of 7.3 rubles like last year.