 |
RUS |  |
ENG |
 |
|
09:25 GMT 13:25 Moscow
Local Time: 13:25
|
|
|
The problem |
|
G8 response |
 |
Russia's position and role |
|
Opinions |
| NEWS | G8 | AGENDA | WORKING MEETINGS | VENUE | MEDIA | CONTACTS |
Russia’s Position
Under the circumstances, Russia intends to make initiatives both in the field of primary and secondary education, and in professional training.
The Education for All (EFA) program, initiated in 2000, is a priority direction of the G8 effort to promote education in the developing countries. Today, it is aimed at achieving universal basic education there by 2015. The quality of basic education remains a problem. As a co-chairman of the EFA program in 2006, Russia suggests that the G8 concentrate on upgrading the quality of basic education, and creating mechanisms for assessing the quality of basic education in the developing nations in the EFA framework.
As for professional education, Russian experts believe that the global effort should focus on creating an international system for comparing professional competence, and evaluating the quality of professional training. This will promote free movement of skilled personnel, which is a major condition of the global economic development.
Russia suggests paying special attention to international programs of academic exchanges, and to closer cooperation between universities of industrialized and developing nations.
In addition, Russia has proposed discussing with other G8 members a number of measures of social, cultural, and professional adaptation of migrants via education. This is important because today migration is indispensable for a steady economic growth of both industrialized and developing nations.
Russia has an effective system of primary education, a successful experience of social and educational policies in the poly-ethnic and multi-religious environment, and solid traditions of fundamental education. In view of this, discussion of the suggested issues during the forthcoming G8 summit in St. Petersburg may generate a number of major decisions, which will substantially promote the development of the global economy.
|
 |
print page |