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This directive has been drafted to fulfill the Government’s instruction issued on July 5, 2012 to implement the key proposals contained in the Presidential address on the budget policy in 2013-2015 and the instruction on the list of instructions of the President of the Russian Federation dated December 22, 2012 No.Pr-3411.
The directive takes into account the 2012-2018 programme of gradual improvement of state (municipal) institutions’ employee compensation plans approved by Government Directive No. 2190-r of November 26, 2012.
The Action Plan for Changes in the Public Services Sector Aimed at Increasing Effectiveness in Education and Academia (hereinafter the roadmap) reflects changes at every level of the national education system as well as in science and technology. The roadmap was drawn up with due consideration of the development guidelines stipulated by the relevant government programmes: Education Development in 2013-2020 and the Development of Science and Technology.
The changes included in the roadmap are aimed at the following:
- Education for children aged 3 to 7: to take steps toward eliminating waiting lists for preschools and ensuring a high quality of preschool education;
- General education level: to ensure that Russian students achieve higher results and enjoy equal access to quality educational services;
- Extracurricular services: to expand the system’s potential and create conditions for the development of gifted children and children with high motivation for learning;
- Professional education and vocational training: to consolidate and promote educational programmes as attractive investment targets, and maintain and improve the quality of training in these programmes;
- Higher education: to optimise and improve state higher education institutions, to revise the structure of education programmes, to improve the quality of training in professional education, and to develop human potential in the higher education sector;
- Science and technology: to build up a prospective research portfolio in priority areas of science and technology through extensive fundamental and applied research; to implement projects aimed at setting up large mega-science facilities across Russia, to develop human resources in the academic sector, and promote scientists’ mobility.
To implement the Government’s policy in education and science effectively, the directive hereby recommends that regional executive authorities develop and approve regional roadmaps.
A roadmap plan should stipulate the clear sequence of actions to be taken and the deadlines and officials in charge of each step so as to achieve the planned changes in science and education which are needed for the transition to an effective contract system.