15 February 2011
On 15 February, the Gorbachev Foundation hosted a discussion on “Education reform: As seen by the public”The Civil Dialogue Forum continued a series of discussions on the current situation in the education sphere. The first event in this series was a Round Table, attended by experts and held on 15 December 2010.
Mikhail Gorbachev: “Despite the existing Constitution, anticonstitutional measures are being taken. And who is calling the shots? Leaders – leaders in the education sphere. The new Russian President also felt it – when they brought him that draft law for signing. He did sign it, but did not let it go further. Hewasrighttodoso. Although he could have done even better if he had simply raised the issue, rejected the draft law and made them put it up for debate – in all organisations and spheres....”
Full transcript of the Discussion (in Russian) is available here.
Speakers in the discussion included M.S.Gorbachev, Co-Chairman of the Civil Dialogue Forum; O.N. Smolin, Deputy Chairman of State Duma Committee for Education; Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education; B.A.Vinogradov, State Duma Deputy; Ya.S.Turbovsky, Chairman of the Creative Teaching Academy; A.I.Rozhkov, Director of the Applied Legal Research Centre,Institute for Educational Studiesofthe Higher School of Economics State University; Ye.S.Abelyuk, Honoured Educator of the Russian Federation; K.Larina, a journalist; V.Ye.Shudegov, Deputy Chairman of State Duma Committee for Education; and I.I.Taradanova, Deputy Director of the General Education Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
The discussion was hosted by Olga Zdravomyslova, Executive Director of the Gorbachev Foundation.
Also taking part in the discussion were A.M. Abramov, A.Bogdanov, Ye.I.Bashkirova, A.Vinogradov, R.S.Grinberg, I.Zavalishina, S.Z.Kazarnovsky, A.K.Kovaldzhi, P.M.Kudyukin, M.I.Kuznetsov, A.Ye.Levedev, S.M.Lukashevsky, V.S.Milov, V.N.Molodtsova, P.R.Palazhchenko, L.Rybina, A.F.Cherepanova, G.Shneider, and others.
Webcast of the discussion is available at www.a-z.ru
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