New education quality monitoring center opens in Kazan

Today, Republic Education Quality Monitoring Center’s new building opened in Kazan. It will be serving as regional data processing center during the Unified State Examinations (EGE).
Tatarstan Education and Science Minister Engel Fattakhov attended the opening ceremony.
“If we set large-scale tasks for our education system, we need an up-to-date education quality monitoring center. It will store analytical material pertaining to teachers, students and graduates' work. We need to check our teachers’ progress at least once a year, as they are the weakest link at the moment,” the minister said.
Federal Testing Center Director Sergei Ponomarenko reminded that Tatarstan Education Quality Monitoring Center ranked among the best ones in Russia in 2011, with the new building continuing the course for education enhancement.
Professor Yuri Vyazemskiy, head of World Literature and Culture department at Moscow State University of Foreign Affairs, expressed his opinion that this work should be continued. “I am sure that if Tatarstan starts monitoring and control the education quality and EGE, everything will be great, Tatarstan-style,” he said.
After Engel Fattakhov and Sergei Ponomarenko snipped the tape, everyone was invited to inspect the new building’s modern rooms and equipment. The center features a conference room, scanning and verification halls and State Final Examination department.
Technical staff and 38 employees work at the new center.