Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin called the exam a torture for schoolchildren and proposed to cancel it, returning to the Soviet education system. Does this mean the big experiment in education has failed?
The head of the UK spoke at the scientific-practical conference “The Role of Law in Ensuring Human Well-Being” in Moscow and spoke in favor of a return to the Soviet education system.
“Let’s revive the Soviet school of education. She was the best in the world, everyone has always recognized this. And our legislative proposals should be aimed at this. To cancel the exam is just some kind of torture for young people. Cancel all these bachelor’s degrees, specialties.
After graduating from high school, students entered the technical school for secondary (vocational) education. Or finished their studies and passed exams at institutes where they received higher education. Bastrykin considers this scheme to be optimal and calls for the restoration of the prestige of professorial work and postgraduate studies “in the Soviet way.”
He also strongly opposes distance learning and the virtualization of higher education.
The head of the UK quite often makes statements on such topics. For example, he proposed to recognize cryptocurrency as property and condemned the participation of children in cyber competitions.
The debate about whether the new system of education has become better than the previous one does not stop. GIA, OGE and EGE have become a headache not only for teachers and schoolchildren, but also for their parents. The ambiguity of indicators and the possibility of rigging the results are worrying, and heck, who works in the admissions committees of universities, teaches students.
Whether the Soviet system was really “good old” and whether a return to it can be seriously discussed are questions that require a strategic solution. And the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education.