“Levada Center”: Less supporters became less

The number of Russians who support the Unified State Exam (USE) in the country has significantly decreased since 2004, there are more those who think about this is evidenced by the study of the Levada Center, the results of which are published by Izvestia .

13% of Russians consider the USE more effective than the old knowledge testing system. In 2004, there were 24%of them. The number of skeptics increased from 22% to 34%. 33% believe that old and new exams are equivalent. 21% found it difficult to answer.
The number of those who consider the passage of a single exam is gradually increasing by another corruption factor in the field of education.

If nine years ago abuses with the USE connected 21% of respondents, now - 30%. The number of those who are sure that the new form of graduation tests helps to increase the transparency of the field of education remains practically unchanged - 14% in 2004 against 13% now. They did not notice changes in 34% of respondents.

Positively to the cancellation of ordinary exams and the transition to the exam is 41% of the survey participants, negatively - 35% (respectively 44% and 32% in 2004). 24% could not formulate their opinion on this issue.

46% of Russians are sure that the government’s policy in the education system moves it away from the model necessary for the country. 21% of respondents spoke out in support of the efforts of the authorities. 33% could not decide. The sociologist of the Levada Center Denis Volkov noted "a large percentage of those who were induced with an answer."

Meanwhile, the Deputy Minister of Education and Science Igor Remorenko in an interview with the Rain television channel , recognizing the existence of “exam-tourism”, rejected the possibility of trading in examination materials: “such a phenomenon as“ USE-Turism ”exists”, the term “went from the new Minister of Education of Dagestan, which introduced observers in the USE and organized raids to those remote areas of the republic, where The guys from Makhachkala come to take exams. " Remorenko noted that it is impossible to sell an option in advance in advance to some child, he will still differ. It is more common not to trade in such materials, but to help the graduate in the process of the exam itself, the deputy minister said.

In the same interview, Remorenko said that the hacking of email , according to which tasks for the exam are sent to hard -to -reach settlements, "this is the most likely factor, why these materials were on the Internet."