Adaptation of University and College Graduates to Real Life: Fighting Down

Unemployment and Improvement of Youth Competitiveness

Mr. Dmitry LIVANOV, Minister of Education and Science of the

Russian Federation

1Education World ForumLondon, 21 January 2014

Graduates’ competitiveness: main challenges

• Low labor productivity

• Shortage of skillful industrial workforce but too much tertiary level graduates;

• Deficit of qualified instructors • Educational system mismatches labor

market demands

2OECD Economic SurveysRussian Federation 2014

Problem solving initiativesTransformation of educational system:

• Motivation to life long learning

• Quality assurance• Program design based on

learning outcomes• Student oriented approach

3-5 years

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Russia in TIMSS score 2011 (primary school students) compared average (in brackets)

Mathematics …………………………………………..542 (500)Science …………………………………………………486 (501)

Meeting universities with schoolsSuccess story 17 Moscow universities

arranged network of technological support to advanced studying of engineering at school level

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Welcoming business

Success Story Russian Hi Tech “Sistema” company in cooperation with INTEL have developed a regional networks of school centers for technological education

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Generating systemic changes in vocational labor force training system

• Engaging Professional Communities

• Independent accreditation of training programmes

• Development of multipurpose centers of excellence sharing facilities for different target groups

• Curricular modernization• Providing business with real

governing capacities in education

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Providing graduates with global competencies• Networking

universities • CIS university• SCO university • BRICS university (prospective)

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Welcome to Global University Summit in Moscow, 24-25 April 2014

Encouraging universities to be internationalAmbitious goal:

5 Russian universities within top 100 positions of world rankings by 2020

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EU-Russia S&T projects within total number of international cooperation

projects within FTP on R&D (2007-2013)

Allocated funds for EU-Russia projects within total number of

international cooperation projects within FTP on R&D (2007-2013)

50%

50%

EU coun-tries

69%

31%

EU coun...

Distribution of the EU-Russia S&T projects

between participating partner-countries with the international cooperation

projects within FTP on R&D (2007-2013)

More then 30 events during EU-Russia year of science

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Combining educational and youth policy

This year 30 million dollar fund is available for granting student unions at 154 Russian universities

• Network of youth forums: discussions and team building

• Grants to support youth initiatives

• Securing healthy lifestyle

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Promoting language studies

• 27 foreign languages and more than 70 languages of ethnics populating the Russian Federation are available at Russian Schools

• Russian language is number 5 by popularity in the world and the second in the INTERNET

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This year in October at the Educational Salon we expect ICT for studying presented by companies from all over the Globe

Thank you and welcome to Russia!

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