Demand for Russian education grows in Central Asia: MGIMO Russian School Abroad opens in Tashkent
05 september 2022
The first MGIMO RSA School opened in Tashkent on 5 September. The education centre is organized in the format of lyceum classes for children fr om 15 years old. The project is implemented within the "Priority 2030" state program to support Russian universities. It is planned to open at least 15 schools outside Russia by 2030.
The study programme for secondary general education with a Russian component, upon completion of which graduates received both an Uzbek diploma and a Russian certificate of secondary general education, started in Uzbekistan in 2020. The first graduation of 52 high school students took place in 2021, six of them received a diploma with honours. The state final attestation in the Russian language and mathematics was taken by the lyceum students at an examination receiving point opened specifically for this purpose in Tashkent. Among the 2021 graduates one lyceum student passed her USE in the Russian language with a 100 mark and successfully entered MGIMO University in Moscow. All the graduates in 2022, already 65 students, took State Final Exam in the Unified State Exam (USE) format. Their right to a gold medal and a certificate with honours was confirmed by 6 graduates.
MGIMO Lyceum in Tashkent, opened within the framework of Russian Schools Abroad project, on September, 5, 2022, admitted additionally about 30 school graduates, who have successfully passed examination. This will ensure a significant increase in the number of graduates who, in addition to an Uzbek diploma, will also receive a Russian certificate of secondary education in Uzbekistan in the coming years.
Students and teachers will be able to access the modern e-learning platform through specialized online portals of each school in their region. They will have a unified design, which will make them easy to navigate and recognizable.
In the next phase, dual certificate programmes are planned to be launched in Turkey. Thus, on June 14, 2022, a working meeting with representatives of private educational and research institutions was held at MGIMO with the support of the Andrei Karlov Foundation. The parties signed a cooperation agreement and started to establish a working group. At the moment, the processes of synchronising the curricula of the Turkish and Russian educational standards are actively underway. Plans for 2023 include opening the doors of the Russian School Abroad in Turkey.
"The educational model and curricula are built individually for each school, based on the national component, which is synchronised with the Russian one. Teachers at the Moscow Gorchakov Lyceum of MGIMO make a significant contribution to the development of teacher education. They regularly conduct additional professional education programmes for their colleagues from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, which makes it possible to implement targeted solutions and provide students with the most in-demand areas and, as a result, ensure a comfortable environment for learning programmes," said Roman Kotov, Vice Rector for teacher training programmes, general and secondary professional education of MGIMO.
Scientific activities play an important role in the RSA project. The results of the implemented methods and innovations are continuously evaluated by the scientific team of the MGIMO Interfaculty Department of educational systems and pedagogical technologies and invited experts. The data obtained are also used to improve the educational environment and teacher training in the regions wh ere the opening of new schools is planned. The results of the research will be regularly published as articles in scientific journals. In addition, a collective monograph "Modern Pedagogy and Educational Design in a Foreign Language Environment" is to be published by the end of 2022. It will present a promising model of the Russian Schools Abroad in the context of development of humanitarian cooperation of the Russian Federation with foreign countries. Specialists will explore the legal, socio-political, organizational-methodological and psychological-pedagogical foundations of organizing a network of Russian schools abroad.
The study programme for secondary general education with a Russian component, upon completion of which graduates received both an Uzbek diploma and a Russian certificate of secondary general education, started in Uzbekistan in 2020. The first graduation of 52 high school students took place in 2021, six of them received a diploma with honours. The state final attestation in the Russian language and mathematics was taken by the lyceum students at an examination receiving point opened specifically for this purpose in Tashkent. Among the 2021 graduates one lyceum student passed her USE in the Russian language with a 100 mark and successfully entered MGIMO University in Moscow. All the graduates in 2022, already 65 students, took State Final Exam in the Unified State Exam (USE) format. Their right to a gold medal and a certificate with honours was confirmed by 6 graduates.
MGIMO Lyceum in Tashkent, opened within the framework of Russian Schools Abroad project, on September, 5, 2022, admitted additionally about 30 school graduates, who have successfully passed examination. This will ensure a significant increase in the number of graduates who, in addition to an Uzbek diploma, will also receive a Russian certificate of secondary education in Uzbekistan in the coming years.
Students and teachers will be able to access the modern e-learning platform through specialized online portals of each school in their region. They will have a unified design, which will make them easy to navigate and recognizable.
In the next phase, dual certificate programmes are planned to be launched in Turkey. Thus, on June 14, 2022, a working meeting with representatives of private educational and research institutions was held at MGIMO with the support of the Andrei Karlov Foundation. The parties signed a cooperation agreement and started to establish a working group. At the moment, the processes of synchronising the curricula of the Turkish and Russian educational standards are actively underway. Plans for 2023 include opening the doors of the Russian School Abroad in Turkey.
"The educational model and curricula are built individually for each school, based on the national component, which is synchronised with the Russian one. Teachers at the Moscow Gorchakov Lyceum of MGIMO make a significant contribution to the development of teacher education. They regularly conduct additional professional education programmes for their colleagues from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, which makes it possible to implement targeted solutions and provide students with the most in-demand areas and, as a result, ensure a comfortable environment for learning programmes," said Roman Kotov, Vice Rector for teacher training programmes, general and secondary professional education of MGIMO.
Scientific activities play an important role in the RSA project. The results of the implemented methods and innovations are continuously evaluated by the scientific team of the MGIMO Interfaculty Department of educational systems and pedagogical technologies and invited experts. The data obtained are also used to improve the educational environment and teacher training in the regions wh ere the opening of new schools is planned. The results of the research will be regularly published as articles in scientific journals. In addition, a collective monograph "Modern Pedagogy and Educational Design in a Foreign Language Environment" is to be published by the end of 2022. It will present a promising model of the Russian Schools Abroad in the context of development of humanitarian cooperation of the Russian Federation with foreign countries. Specialists will explore the legal, socio-political, organizational-methodological and psychological-pedagogical foundations of organizing a network of Russian schools abroad.
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