Engel Fattakhov: Education needs to be made attractive for investment

A conference of pre-school educators themed Tatarstan Perspective. Education 3.0 takes place in Kazan today. It is held at the premises of the secondary school No 177.

Tatarstan Education and Science Minister Engel Fattakhov and Alexander Kondakov, Doctor of Education and comprehensive education standards development project manager, take part in the conference. Other attendees are municipal education chiefs, secondary school headmasters, etc.

Opening the meeting, Engel Fattakhov said that Republic of Tatarstan’s education system entered a new stage.

The minister went on to deliver a report themed Tatarstan Perspective Project: Goals, Objectives and Implementation Techniques.

“Substantial financial aid has been given to the republic’s education system over the recent years. The rapidly growing economy imposes special requirements for personnel,” he stressed.

The new personnel generation needed to have a competence complex, the official said. “The disparity of the interests and efforts of various authorities, employers and businesses hinders its formation,” E. Fattakhov noted. “One of the project’s key goals is to achieve their unity.”

The project envisaged building a comfortable educational environment meeting the economic demands, the minister said, adding that expected results included social and political stability, equal rights for education, development of education goods and services that meet personal demands, and others.

“We are concerned over the effectiveness of financial injections in the education system. Education needs to be made attractive for private investment, and that work has been launched,” the speaker said.

The project will provide for transition from education 1.0 to education 3.0, building a sophisticated infrastructure for each level of education, designing and implementing a set of methods compatible with the education 3.0 requirements, etc.

Pre-school education needed special attention, Engel Fattakhov said. “We are going to resolve the problem of providing places for children above three, while keeping the crèche groups intact; promote active forms of pre-school education and ensure the development of non-state pre-school services,” he noted.