I need a description of Russian Education System

[georgep]

Hello,

I write a short study about the Education System in Russia now. From the first class to university, how many hours on day/week, special teacher to each discipline or not etc.

Thank you.

Originally posted by georgep
Hello,

I write a short study about the Education System in Russia now. From the first class to university, how many hours on day/week, special teacher to each discipline or not etc.

Thank you.

First of all, there're no separate "elementary", "high" or other schools in Russia. Secondary school ("srednyaya shkola") consits of classes 1-11 that are usually located in the same building. Classes 1-4 are called elementary school ("nachal'naya shkola"), but for my view it's just logical division, not really a separate school.

The main difference between classes 1-4 and 5-11 is that children in elementary are taught by one "universal" teacher in one constant class room. Main subjects are russian language, mathimatics, reading, study of nature, physical culture. Usually school takes 5 days a week, max. 3-4 lessons a day, 40 min. each.

Since 5th class pupils have separate teachers for every subject and travel from one classroom to another for different lessons. Every new year adds new subjects. Biology (5th class, derived from "study of nature"), geography(5), physics (7), technical drawing (7), literature(5), astronomy (11), etc, etc. Time pupil spends in school increases up to 6-8 lessons a day 40 min. each, 5 days a week. By the way, pupil has no influence on set of subjets in school, it's determined by state educational standards.

Constitution grants everybody right to get free nine-class education. After 9th class everyone can decide how he wants to continue his education...

...to be continued.

[georgep]

Excelent, Alex, and very interesting!

I choosed this subject for a presentation I will to a course in Russian I go on University.

Alex, when you will post the next part of, I would like to know another one think. When I went in school (in Romania), the sistem was that elevs used classrooms alternatively. For example, in the same classroom went Class III between 8 - 12 pm and Class VI between 14 - 18. Now I live in Sweden where they have problem with school resources but should never accept a such system. My self I did not experienced any problem when I used it.


I am very grateful that you continue the story, Alex! This issue would be worth an own web site.

Regards,
George P.

There is alternative use of classrooms in Russian schools. Some classes go to school in the first half of a day, others - after 14pm. But birth-rate has dropped significantly in 1990s, so many schools do not use such system any more.

Let's continue the story. After 9th class putil passes state exams and gets certificate (called "attestat" in Russia) confirming that its owner has "not-full secondary education" - nepolnoe sredneye obrazovaniye. Here's the first crossroad. Person can whether leave the school and enter thechnical school, or continue to study in secondary school (classes 10,11). All that matters is pupil's desire. You do not pass any exams to enter 10th class. After 11th class there're state exams once again, and pupil gets certificate of "full secondary education" (polnoe sredneye obrazovaniye).

There're two kinds of thekhnical schools. One kind, "PTU" gives a working profession after short study (no more than 1 - 1.5 years. "Technikum" gives a profession and "full secondary education" (that toghether form secondary special education or "sredne-spetsial'noye obrazovaniye" in Russian), but that requires longer study, about 3 years. Such specialists occupy higher positions than those who graduated from PTU. Recently some technikum-level facilities were renamed to colleges. So term colleges also exist in Russian educational system, but they're roughly equal to technikums.

Full secondary education (after 11 classes or technikum) is requred to ender an institute, academy or university to get high education ("vysshee obrazovanie"), which is required to occupy position of engineer, manager, chief accountant, etc etc. It took 4 to 6 years (depends on specialization).

After graduation from university one can take post-graduate course, write a thesis (dissertation), defend it, and become "candidate of science". That's first scientific degree.

Of course, there's military education also. Military educational facilities can be also "secondary" (level of theknikum) and "high" (level of university).

That's all so far.

[georgep]

Thank you so much

[georgep]

Alex, again, tkank you for taking time for this presentation.
If possbile, I would like to know something about organization aspects in the school (especialy class I-IX). By example:

- leisure activity, hobby activities connected to the school; how teachers or other staff are involved

- combating antisocial phenomena like mobbing, vandalizing, other discipline issues

- communication and feedback between elevs, teachers, parents
Periodical meetings (colective or individual); how much parents are involved

- measuring knowledge - marks, examinations, from which class

- other interesting issues e.g. how schools are organized and administrated

And, at the end, but only if you want, what is your connection to the school - I am just curious.

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[r3b00t]

Alex, 3 - 4 lessons from class 1 to 4 and 40 min each. Does this mean they only have half a day of school or something like that, since here (Belgium) elementary is about 5 hours lessons a day. A school day for elementary starts at 8.30 and ends at 15.30 in most cases. Guess I'm just to used to our system, when you leave elementary you get 7 or 8 lessons a day, each lesson than is 50 minutes. We also have 12 grades instead of 11. It's interesting to see that there's so much differences between educational systems.

Do children go to a kindergarten class? And if they have so less school, on normal days, to they get a lot of vacation? I mean like with christmas, how long can they stay at home. Is there a long vacation (like here in the summer we have 2 months).

How are children taken care of if their parents have got to go to work in the morning or afternoon, when the lessons haven't started. Do schools take care of them, if yes from what hour? Or are there special childcare services that take care of such children.

Thanks.