The Ministry of Education is getting worried about the quality of teaching a foreign language at school. That is why it has decided that now not only 2 subjects (Russian and Maths) should be obligatory but it is also sensible to have one more subject as the USE- a foreign language that children study at school. The decision was taken after having analyzed the latest results of the German USE since they were the lowest ever (41 of 100). "After finishing any school, a child should be able to communicate in a foreign language! So it is for sure that these measures are the first step to speed up the process”.
Such ideas will have no other result except for the flourishing of the private tutoring sector. No quality is provided in most schools, pupils are not prepared for taking USE in English/German/whatever. Teachers have no stimulus improving their lessons. So if you want to pass the exam - look for an experienced teacher who will nurture you for money.
This is all nonsense. The government do not have any plans to improve the quality of education. The current tendencies prove that national education has now become the matter of business rather than the matter of public concern. The crashed educational system of the past has never been substituted or renovated. This doesn't have to do anything with salaries. Ask your former school teachers about the amount of duties and responsibilites they have to perform. One example: a teacher must never develop a teaching programme or syllabus. It is not the teacher's business. The teacher's business is to deliver knowledge, build skills, teach values. One comparison from the industrial sector. A mechanic at a car factory is not an engineer or a designer, his business is to assemble cars. If he is forced, within the same or increased working hours, to make new car designs and innovations, the assembling process will come to a standstill or mark a new catastrophic low-quality rate.
ok, the news is not so urgent anymore since the government thought that it was a bad idea to make everybody learn English in a way that pupils would be able to pass the USE, so it was simply repealed
As for me, I suppose they'd better increase the wages of teachers "to speed up the process". Well... I'm joking but still... If we introduce some new measure of control (especially such a doubtful one as the USE), will it change the situation? And if yes, will it be for better? I just think that with such low salaries we can't demand that everything (even the second foreign language) must be taught on the most lavish scale. Otherwise nobody will work in the educational sphere.
