Study is our whole life

At the last meeting, creators of the Pridnestrovian state spoke with the head of state on foreign policy and economics. Minister of Education Tatyana Loginova was invited to talk about the state of public education, prospects for its development. Mikhail Burla, Chairman of the Committee of the Supreme Council on Education, Science and Culture, and Deputy Safronov, who in the first membership of the Pridnestrovian government, held the post of Minister of Education took part in the dialogue.

After an hour-long speech by the current head of the branch from the parliamentary rostrum, the members of the advisory meeting had questions. Our sphere of education is the heir to the Soviet education system, its traditions are preserved, first of all, in the issues of the quality of teaching, the quality of the students' knowledge.

Cognitive for the participants in the meeting were the statistical data characterizing the system of public education. Its components are 158 pre-school educational institutions, 160 schools, 16 secondary vocational schools, 8 universities and 14 additional education organizations. There are 2,268 pre-schoolers who attend kindergartens, 45086 schoolchildren.

One of the most acute discussed in society topics in past years was the so-called optimization of educational institutions. 14 schools were reorganized in 2015-2016, not one was closed in 2017-2018. On the contrary, a new school complex was established in Nezavertilivka, in the Slobodzeia region, and the Suvorov Military School began its work in Tiraspol. Of course, the unfavorable demographic situation leaves an imprint on many processes occurring in the educational system. For example, one first-grader and two pupils are studying in the second grade, in the Bychok school of  Grigoriopol district. Such a burden on the teacher can not be compared with the Moscow Humanities and Mathematics Gymnasium, where there are 32 students in each class. The salary of teachers is the same.

With remuneration for work, Pridnestrovian teachers also have big problems, it seems, our educational system, and this follows Soviet traditions. The young teacher who graduated from high school receives 1606 rubles, the teacher with the experience of -2100 rubles. The question of how to fix the cadres in such cases, turns into a rhetorical one. Graduates of universities do not go into pedagogy. It seems that the dynamics in this regard is positive (in 2013, 48 graduates came to work in the industry, and in 966 - 96), but it is fixed at the beginning of the academic year, after it the ranks of young teachers are considerably thinning out. In order to secure the cadres, the government sent a law-in-draft to the Supreme Council, which again can bring us all back to the Soviet past. Remember the compulsory workout for three years? But this rule of law will only apply to students who have been trained at public expense.

In the area where the cadres, including pedagogical personnel, were entrenched in Pridnestrovie, the following topic was discussed during the meeting of the deliberative meeting of the first Pridnestrovian deputies. More than three hundred graduates, will study in Russia after passing the Russian EGE on the territory of the PMR. They will return after receiving a diploma of higher education - another big question. As practice shows, units are returned.

The questions asked by the first Pridnestrovian deputies revealed many problems in the industry. For example, illegal tutoring, when a tutor acts as a tutor, who was obliged to give the same knowledge in school lessons. Or a constant reduction in the number of schools and classes with Ukrainian and Moldovan language of instruction. A weak material base of the industry, which for many years remained in oblivion. Or a shortage of workers. In general, the conversation is never-ending ...

However, there are few problems to highlight, they need to be solved. And who knows, perhaps, a frank discussion at the parliamentary level about the fate of our children, the fate of the whole industry will give an additional impetus to their solution.