The isolation of Russian education from the needs of the country
The investment climate in Russia has recently improved somewhat. Unfortunately, it is impossible to talk about serious advances that would lead to the implementation of truly breakthrough projects, but, nevertheless, it would get off the ground. If even 12-15 years ago, the investment background in the Russian Federation seemed extremely negative, today there are positive developments. However, for the development of the investment attractiveness of our country there are significant obstacles that must be overcome. One of these problems: the gap in the educational sphere. Today in Russia, the majority of schoolchildren who have received a secondary (complete) general education, apply for education in higher educational institutions. At the same time, the strangest thing is that most of the applicants to higher educational institutions enter these higher educational institutions. This situation of total "income" in universities is associated with a demographic problem. Naturally, prestigious universities still have a big competition, but universities, let's say, the average hand has a significant shortage of applicants, and therefore they are ready to accept literally everyone - and even those, who will leave much to be desired.
In this regard, a serious imbalance is born in the country when every year the educational system graduates a large number of specialists with a university degree. The middle-end fertility pit of the 1990-x manifests itself fully, which does not give educational institutions room to maneuver. After the reform of education, when the Ministry of Education and Science literally makes it difficult for all those whose knowledge and skills are literally at zero level due to ignoring the educational process, the situation with the pseudo-quality of Russian education is literally forced to go to a head. Under the pseudo-quality it should be understood that diplomas will eventually receive the overwhelming majority of applicants, as the practice of deductions can seriously hit the budget of the school, technical school, university. This puts the leaders of educational institutions in Russia in a very rigid framework, when you have to turn a blind eye to the pedagogical credo and the system of assessment, drawing in the diplomas those grades that many graduate students simply do not deserve. But if you don’t draw at least the notorious “satisfactory”, then you can call the anger of the inspection commission, which declares that the educational institution simply did not cope with its task. Nobody from the directors and rectors wants to get a hat, and therefore we have a tremendous growth in the “quality” (read, pseudo-quality) of education in recent times.
Naturally, students are well aware that they are the sacred cows themselves, on whom a priori the hand of the leadership of the educational institution cannot rise in terms of their deduction. So it turns out that today, according to the most conservative estimates, about 10-15% of university students do not receive an education, but simply are registered in their high schools. And who will get the state at the exit? And it will receive such graduates, whose services it would be better to immediately refuse before they implement the first project. Moreover, even from among those who really gnawed at the granite of science, units will begin their professional activities precisely in the profession indicated in their diploma.
It turns out that huge amounts of budget funding go down the drain. A state that seeks to attract investment in various fields of activity and develop domestic production itself follows the slippery path of the irrationality of the educational system.
Literally daily from television screens, we hear calls from government officials for business to go along the western path and participate in financing education. But business is still mostly deaf to such calls, because today many business representatives find it much more profitable to hire someone who has been called guest workers rather than investing in home-grown personnel. In recent years, business has learned to count pennies, and therefore it is much more profitable to hire labor "partners" from Tajikistan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, and other countries to implement production projects. Not only that, these workers already have some experience in relevant activities, they can also save social benefits, “forget” about paying taxes, and in general you can enter into a collusion with the Federal Migration Service to declare illegal immigrants in a certain area. Such cases, when the business owner simply “rents” his workers, who are engaged in labor activity on an illegal basis, to representatives of the FMS, in order then simply not to pay the due wages. A move that is well known to the prosecutor’s office, but for some reason still practiced on numerous industrial and, especially, construction sites.
It is absolutely not profitable for a business that is placed in a rather complicated framework, which is akin to a survival framework, to finance vocational training. A metalworking enterprise today does not need a worker who, as it is fashionable to say in the educational sphere, is comprehensively developed. Business today does not need thinking people at all. The main task of Russian business, which is forced to balance between the principles of economic well-being and government intervention, is to obtain personnel trained by someone who will be in a silent and obedient mode. robots carry out their duties, making a profit. At the same time, those who are dissatisfied and overly “understanding” are waiting for a banal dismissal without any regard for the obligations regulated by the Labor Code.
In this case, there is a difficultly resolvable contradiction: the state wants to receive specialists in any industry with different levels of education, but at the same time differing in comprehensive development, while business structures are concerned only with labor competencies. It turns out that the state finances educational institutions from the budget, and Russian businessmen are in no hurry to use the services of graduates of these educational institutions. What kind of talk about financing is not from budget sources? ..
Today in our country, a few units of enterprises are ready to finance educational projects, conducting students under the educational program, which was developed jointly by the management of the enterprise and the administration of the educational institution.
Russian education today could give a significant impetus to the manufacturing sector, as well as help to increase the positiveness of the investment climate in the country, if we could no longer make a kind of “pushing and pushing” out of it, one head of which is directed back and the other to the advanced principles of interaction between the field of study and business areas. Another question is whether today the state has the right to interfere in the interests of the business ... Is it able to find ways to solve this complex problem, or will everything again be left to chance? ..
But if this problem is left unsolved, it will soon be possible to get the option of the final isolation of the educational system from the real economic needs of the country. And then we will get the country of graduates, workers and other graduates of educational institutions, the demand for which is zero.
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