Dagestan wins in three federal education development contests

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Makhachkala, November 6, 2018. The Republic of Dagestan will receive subsidies from the federal budget for the implementation of the national project "Education" in 2019. "For the development of the regional education system, six priority areas were identified. We were able to win the selection process for the implementation of three federal projects. This will significantly improve the material and technical conditions in the rural schools and trigger the development of additional education in the region" - the press service of the republican ministry for education and science reports.

The equipment project of the children's center IT-creativity "IT-cube" won in the contest for grants within the framework of the federal project "Digital educational environment". The project implies to teach the students fundamental programming, mobile app development, system administration and working with big data. In total, apart from Dagestan, such IT-centers will appear in 16 regions of Russia. The second project - "Modern School" provides for improving the material and technical base of rural schools, as well as updating the content of educational programs in the subjects "Technology", "Basics of vital activity security" and "Informatics". In Dagestan, it will be implemented in six rural educational institutions.

Another winning project, “Success of Every Child” envisages the creation of a regional model center for the additional education of children. The project will provide 80% of Dagestan children aged 5 - 18 with high-quality additional general education programs by 2025. The peculiarity of this project is personalized financing. The funds for training will be allocated for each child, based on their chosen educational program. According to the acting Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Communications of Dagestan Sergey Snegirev, the republican authorities started paying more attention to the interdepartmental coordination in the field of digitalization and this began to bring first results.

“The IT Cube project launched by us has been supported by the colleagues from the republican Ministry of Education and Science, for which they are very grateful. The education is the foundation without which the modern development of Dagestan and the digital economy is impossible. This is the task set by the Head of the republic Vladimir Vasilyev. We are glad to see that the Yandex. Lyceum will be opened in Dagestan aprt from the center of children's IT creativity "IT Cube. The Yandex. Lyceum project presentation will be held in November 2018" Snegirev said.

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