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The State Duma Committee on Education and Science recommended that amendments to the Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” in the part guaranteeing the payment of teachers for the preparation and conduct of the Unified State Exam and the EGE, that is, a single state examination and the main state exam, which is held in 9 grades.

The Committee recommended that the bill on the payment of compensation to teachers immediately in the second and third readings. The bill itself was submitted to the State Duma in November 2017. In the explanatory note to him, it was noted that in some constituent entities of the Russian Federation, teachers are not paid for participation in state examinations.

According to the authors of the bill, the problem of payments is associated with the interpretation of the Law “On Education”, since it says that compensation is due to teachers participating in the exam “by decision of authorized executive authorities”. The teachers themselves note that compensation to the participants in the exam is paid from the budget of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and the regions independently determine the amount of payments. If this state of affairs is preserved, paying problems will also be preserved.

Examination of the exam / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Zykov Kirill

It is interesting at the same time that, according to teachers surveyed by Polit.ru, compensation can be paid and not to pay the same region in various educational institutions. At the same time, the situation when the teacher responds from the vacation for the state exam, and the spent days (often irregular, since the exam lasts a long time, and its organizers come to work earlier than students, and go later) they will not compensate him for either money or additional days for vacation, is not rare.

The teacher "Teacher", advocating the restoration of the rights of teachers, believe that amendments to the law will not solve the financial problem. The fact is that the bill does not define the list of employees participating in the exam, as well as the format to attract teachers to conduct an exam. In addition, there is no provision on the maintenance of wages, cites the representatives of the trade union of the Kommersant newspaper.

Earlier, school teachers also complained about the amount of payments or even their absence for the GIA. As a result, they stated that they no longer intend to participate in exams. Moreover, as reported in July 2017, the Internet publication “ Peducard ”, most teachers intend to avoid working on the exam in 2018.

Passing the exam on literature / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Zykov Kirill

The reason for this attitude of teachers to the exam was the fact that, according to the publication, in June 2017, the work of organizers and technical specialists in the exam was paid only in a third of the Russian regions, and the amount of payment ranged from 300-400 rubles per hour to 40 rubles a day in the Altai Territory.

The publication also noted that the teachers were unhappy that for work on the exam, they were forced to undergo special training in their free time and could bear not only administrative, but also criminal liability in case of violations. And this is not a formal warning: annually dozens of teachers dismiss or forced to quit due to errors they made, since the requirements for teachers on the exam are extremely gesture.

In connection with the protests of teachers, a number of Russian regions have already announced that they also have compensation for organizing and conducting exams.

Tatyana Klyachko, director of the Center for Continuing Education of the Institute for Applied Economic Research of the RANEPA, commented on prepared amendments to the legislation for “Polit.ru”, providing guaranteed payments to teachers for the preparation and conduct of exams. In her opinion, it is possible that this initiative will be implemented only in words, or only where the regions will find money on it.

Tatyana Klyachko

“If, as a result of this initiative, teachers receive material support for performing quite hard work, organizing and conducting the exam, then well. But it may turn out that everything will be as usual: they promise and will not do it. This initiative itself does not yet guarantee anything.

Why did the question of material compensation teachers arose only now, although the exam has existed for a long time? Because before the introduction of the exam, the teachers conducted exams and some other work, and this was considered work within their official duties.

What is needed in order for the situation to change? You can, of course, accept additions to the law "On Education in the Russian Federation". But the Ministry of Education can simply recommend to the regions to pay for this work.

However, the ministry can only recommend. And if the regions have money for these purposes, they will do it, and if not, they will not. And in this regard, the adoption of amendments at the level of the law will not change the situation.

Checking documents before passing the exam / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Zykov Kirill

So the excellent initiative of the deputies to introduce mandatory payments for holding the exam and OGE does not promise anything to the teachers firmly, like any other initiative. Now, for example, there is a process of increasing the wages of teachers - and then there is not enough money for it. And here we need more additional money, ”said Tatyana Klyachko.

According to deputy Oleg Shein (Fair Russia faction), who introduced the bill to consideration of the State Duma, most likely, the document in final reading will be considered during the autumn Duma session. If the amendments to the law are adopted, they will enter into force on January 1, 2019.