RSA school is to open in Kyrgyzstan as part of the Priority 2030 programme
03 november 2021
On November 2, MGIMO Vice-Rectors A.V. Malgin and R.I. Kotov visited Bishkek. A Memorandum of Cooperation was signed at the end of the visit, setting out plans to launch two Russian Schools Abroad in Bishkek and Karakol.
Partnerships between educational institutions in different countries are an organic component of today's educational landscape. Such cooperation ensures the integration of pedagogical and information resources, facilitates the exchange of experience, and expands the space of opportunities for students.
The Russian Schools Abroad project is one of five strategic projects implemented by MGIMO within the Priority 2030 academic leadership programme. The project aims to support Russian education abroad, including through the creation and development of a network of Russian-language schools.
According to the University Rector A.V. Torkunov, MGIMO as the country's main international university encounters the activities of Russian schools abroad in all their diversity more and more often than other universities. The University has accumulated significant academic potential of classical schools and innovative projects, manifested through a variety of centres of competence.
MGIMO contributes to the development of teacher education through a synergy of complementary forms: authoring textbooks, participating in the "customization" of the USE in a number of subjects, interaction with regional schools, continuing professional education at the MGIMO School of Business and International Competences and the Parent-Teacher retraining program, the Department of Educational Systems and Pedagogical Technologies, the Master of Arts in Modern Education and Teacher Design, the Smart Neighborhood project at Hamo University and the University of Moscow. All these points of expertise connected together in MGIMO's ecosystem are a platform for integrating Russian schools and a source of new experiences for all members of the community.
"The Russian Schools Abroad project is an educational integrator that ensures the presence of Russian-language education abroad, a new image of Russian education as an effective mechanism of socialization and value solidarity with Russia," reads the presentation made by Torkunov during the Priority 2030 selection process.
"This is an ambitious project," says R.I.Kotov, MGIMO Vice-Rector for Educational Programmes, General and Secondary Professional Education and Director of the Gorchakov Lyceum, "every year the University takes a more and more active position in the development of school education. The MGIMO network of partner schools and lyceum classes has expanded beyond Moscow and the Moscow region and is scaling up in an international context.
The best conditions for the implementation of the project - due to historical preconditions - have developed in the post-Soviet CIS countries. School education in these countries is based on a system of subject education, which provides an opportunity to develop cooperation in terms of the creation of a joint RSA school.
MGIMO development programme for 2021-2030 envisages the opening of 15 Russian international schools with the help of a consortium established under the University.
In early November, MGIMO Vice-Rectors A.V. Malgin and R.I. Kotov visited Bishkek to develop Russian-Kyrgyz educational cooperation. As a result of the visit, a memorandum on cooperation between MGIMO and the Moscow State University Research and Education Complex School in Kyrgyzstan (MSU NOSHK) was signed, setting forth plans to launch two Russian international schools in Bishkek and Karakol.
According to Nuria Turdakunova, President of the MSU NOSHK, the partnership with Moscow universities and schools is an opportunity to obtain a dual certificate of secondary education - according to Russian educational standards and the standards of the country where the program is being implemented.
During the visit, the Russian delegation visited the English language classes at the Moscow State University's NOHK. "The level of English proficiency of students in this school is high," Mr Kotov shared his impressions. - Of particular interest is the way children fr om multilingual backgrounds easily switch from their native national language to Russian, as well as the way they learn foreign languages.”
"Cooperation between MGIMO and educational institutions in other countries contributes to the development of national education systems, including through the academic resources accumulated by the University, which we can offer to our partners in other countries. We are always looking for points of convergence between partner countries' educational systems, areas in which our experience can be useful to our colleagues. That is why we are primarily talking about implementing dual certification programmes," notes R.I. Kotov.
Anticipating MGIMO's participation in Priority 2030, the University launched a pilot dual-certificate programme in Uzbekistan already in 2019. Several MGIMO lyceums were opened at the Academic Lyceum International House Tashkent at TIIMSH and the Academic Lyceum of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy. The programme had its first graduates in 2021.
The peculiarity of these classes is the unique double certificate programme. Children simultaneously master Uzbek and Russian educational programs and upon graduation receive two documents of secondary general education: Uzbek state diploma of secondary education and certificate of secondary general education of MGIMO Gorchakov Lyceum.
A great advantage is that the curricula of the post-Soviet countries are largely overlapping - especially in science and mathematics: this facilitates the task of preparing a unified curriculum. Nevertheless, there are significant differences in the curricula, for example, in the study of history and languages. In this case, children study both subjects.
Having a Russian secondary education certificate allows children from other countries to enter Russian universities on the same basis as Russian citizens. "On the one hand, there is no need to take additional internal university examinations, which makes the admission process much easier for foreign applicants. On the other hand, entering universities on an equal footing with Russian school graduates is a highly competitive position. However, this year's practice in Tashkent has shown that Uzbek children - graduates of the dual certification programme - show high educational results - they are ready for such competition", Kotov says.
The successful experience of rolling out the dual certification programme opens up prospects for replicating such experience in other countries wh ere there is interest in obtaining secondary education in Russian with passing a state final exams and getting a Russian secondary education certificate.
Partnerships between educational institutions in different countries are an organic component of today's educational landscape. Such cooperation ensures the integration of pedagogical and information resources, facilitates the exchange of experience, and expands the space of opportunities for students.
The Russian Schools Abroad project is one of five strategic projects implemented by MGIMO within the Priority 2030 academic leadership programme. The project aims to support Russian education abroad, including through the creation and development of a network of Russian-language schools.
According to the University Rector A.V. Torkunov, MGIMO as the country's main international university encounters the activities of Russian schools abroad in all their diversity more and more often than other universities. The University has accumulated significant academic potential of classical schools and innovative projects, manifested through a variety of centres of competence.
MGIMO contributes to the development of teacher education through a synergy of complementary forms: authoring textbooks, participating in the "customization" of the USE in a number of subjects, interaction with regional schools, continuing professional education at the MGIMO School of Business and International Competences and the Parent-Teacher retraining program, the Department of Educational Systems and Pedagogical Technologies, the Master of Arts in Modern Education and Teacher Design, the Smart Neighborhood project at Hamo University and the University of Moscow. All these points of expertise connected together in MGIMO's ecosystem are a platform for integrating Russian schools and a source of new experiences for all members of the community.
"The Russian Schools Abroad project is an educational integrator that ensures the presence of Russian-language education abroad, a new image of Russian education as an effective mechanism of socialization and value solidarity with Russia," reads the presentation made by Torkunov during the Priority 2030 selection process.
"This is an ambitious project," says R.I.Kotov, MGIMO Vice-Rector for Educational Programmes, General and Secondary Professional Education and Director of the Gorchakov Lyceum, "every year the University takes a more and more active position in the development of school education. The MGIMO network of partner schools and lyceum classes has expanded beyond Moscow and the Moscow region and is scaling up in an international context.
The best conditions for the implementation of the project - due to historical preconditions - have developed in the post-Soviet CIS countries. School education in these countries is based on a system of subject education, which provides an opportunity to develop cooperation in terms of the creation of a joint RSA school.
MGIMO development programme for 2021-2030 envisages the opening of 15 Russian international schools with the help of a consortium established under the University.
In early November, MGIMO Vice-Rectors A.V. Malgin and R.I. Kotov visited Bishkek to develop Russian-Kyrgyz educational cooperation. As a result of the visit, a memorandum on cooperation between MGIMO and the Moscow State University Research and Education Complex School in Kyrgyzstan (MSU NOSHK) was signed, setting forth plans to launch two Russian international schools in Bishkek and Karakol.
According to Nuria Turdakunova, President of the MSU NOSHK, the partnership with Moscow universities and schools is an opportunity to obtain a dual certificate of secondary education - according to Russian educational standards and the standards of the country where the program is being implemented.
During the visit, the Russian delegation visited the English language classes at the Moscow State University's NOHK. "The level of English proficiency of students in this school is high," Mr Kotov shared his impressions. - Of particular interest is the way children fr om multilingual backgrounds easily switch from their native national language to Russian, as well as the way they learn foreign languages.”
"Cooperation between MGIMO and educational institutions in other countries contributes to the development of national education systems, including through the academic resources accumulated by the University, which we can offer to our partners in other countries. We are always looking for points of convergence between partner countries' educational systems, areas in which our experience can be useful to our colleagues. That is why we are primarily talking about implementing dual certification programmes," notes R.I. Kotov.
Anticipating MGIMO's participation in Priority 2030, the University launched a pilot dual-certificate programme in Uzbekistan already in 2019. Several MGIMO lyceums were opened at the Academic Lyceum International House Tashkent at TIIMSH and the Academic Lyceum of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy. The programme had its first graduates in 2021.
The peculiarity of these classes is the unique double certificate programme. Children simultaneously master Uzbek and Russian educational programs and upon graduation receive two documents of secondary general education: Uzbek state diploma of secondary education and certificate of secondary general education of MGIMO Gorchakov Lyceum.
A great advantage is that the curricula of the post-Soviet countries are largely overlapping - especially in science and mathematics: this facilitates the task of preparing a unified curriculum. Nevertheless, there are significant differences in the curricula, for example, in the study of history and languages. In this case, children study both subjects.
Having a Russian secondary education certificate allows children from other countries to enter Russian universities on the same basis as Russian citizens. "On the one hand, there is no need to take additional internal university examinations, which makes the admission process much easier for foreign applicants. On the other hand, entering universities on an equal footing with Russian school graduates is a highly competitive position. However, this year's practice in Tashkent has shown that Uzbek children - graduates of the dual certification programme - show high educational results - they are ready for such competition", Kotov says.
The successful experience of rolling out the dual certification programme opens up prospects for replicating such experience in other countries wh ere there is interest in obtaining secondary education in Russian with passing a state final exams and getting a Russian secondary education certificate.
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