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Lectures for Pinocchio
The directors were declared the “ino -agent” and squeezed out, and the Novosibirsk “Novolo -Roading” was deprived of state -class. How he lives now
Classes in the "New College". Photo: social networks
The New Gazeta has already talked about Novosibirsk Sergey Chernyshov and his brainchild - a private secondary educational institution of vocational education "New College". In May 2023, Chernyshov was declared an “ino -agent”. For what? The college creator openly played and advocates a humanistic education. And against military propaganda in educational institutions. Referring to the laws and the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The fact of foreign financing in the case of Chernyshov was found not without difficulty: the salary of the college director was accrued from a fee for education, some of which came from the “neighboring foreign countries”. I would be alert here on the site of the rector of any Russian university where foreign students are educated.
And what is happening now with the "New College", where almost one and a half thousand teenagers are studying?
The new status of the director was not in vain for the educational institution. Prosecutorial checks hit the college. However, prosecutors did not reveal significant violations. But then the Ministry of Education of the Novosibirsk Region refused the college in state accreditation. It is absolutely illegal, according to the founders of the educational institution who have already filed a lawsuit to the ministry. While there is a leisurely trial, the college submitted another application for accreditation. It was left without consideration.
To stop the pressure on the college, Sergey Chernyshov left the director's post. Now he is engaged in scientific work - he is preparing a doctoral dissertation on the history of the development of Siberia. The new director of Novol string was the famous PR, journalist, museum figure Yuri Lobanov, famous in Novosibirsk.
We agreed to meet in college. I came a little earlier than the appointed time to feel the atmosphere. The daytime classes ended, and students poured out of the audience. The audience is bright, recognizable characters come across the eyes. Here he rushes down the stairs, jumping through the step, a typical Peppy of long -huts with red tails. Outside of the crowd sits alone in the chair “The sad demon, the spirit of expulsion”, all in black, with a black mane of hair. The cheerful lazy Pinocchio laughs loudly at his own joke in a stupid striped hood.
Today, non -standard teenagers from prosperous families went to scare their parents with statements that the school got them and they would not go to the tenth grade. We have to look for an alternative. Former vocational schools and technical schools of the Soviet model are unattractive for representatives of the middle class. Private colleges remain, since there are already many of them in large cities of the Russian Federation. It is clear that entrepreneurs from education are guided by demand, and it is formed by the parents of adolescents.
Recently, “Ino -Agent” Chernyshov wrote on his Facebook* about the quirks of demand. Surely you will be surprised too:
“This material (information) was produced, widespread and (or) sent by a foreign agent Sergey Andreevich Chernyschov or concerns the activities of the foreign agent Chernyshov Sergey Andreevich, 18+
I’ll tell you about the important result of the reception campaign in colleges in 2023 in Russia, which you will not be told on TV, as well as wherever they broadcast about progress in Russian education. Namely, for the first time in many years, the leader was replaced by the leader in the ranking of the most popular specialties. Programming and everything related to IT sphere is no longer in the first place. And who is there?
So, the specialty of law enforcement activity took the confident and unconditional first place in college in colleges. That is, the preparation of those who plant, and those who oversee the planted.
Let's show you how it works in practice. For example, we take three large private colleges (technical schools): in Novosibirsk (1), for the Urals (2) and in the Urals (3). In each of these colleges (technical schools) there is both a specialty “law enforcement” and the specialty “Information Systems and Programming”.
In technical school (1) this year, 13 groups were recruited with a degree in law enforcement, and only three groups of programmers. In college (2) - 6 groups of "law enforcement officers" and two groups of programmers. In college (3) - 15 groups of "law enforcement officers" and two groups of programmers. And so everywhere.
The deeply archaic inherently Russian society perfectly understands where social elevators are now working. And laughs at our conversations about "soft skills" and collective responsibility.
Actually, the market is rebuilt for a request. Now almost every private college considers it his duty to open this specialty and earn. But there are exceptions: where the issues of humanity are not an empty phrase. ”
"New College" is such an exception. More familiar designers, ITishnikov, advertisers, and merchants are being prepared here. But first of all, cultural people with developed Soft Skils. The main of these skills are sociability and empathy, critical thinking, the ability to work in a team.
We are talking about the current life of the college with the director of Yuri Lobanov .
- I’ll say right away that we are old comrades with Sergey Chernyshov, and I share his views, including education. But I'm not such a sharp person. For example, I hope for common sense inherent in our officials. Few people want unnecessary problems in their neck. Further oppression of the college is a potential scandal with the parents of our students, not the last people in Novosibirsk.
- How did the “Inoagnia” of Chernyshov affected the work of the college? Do you warn the parents of applicants about this circumstance? And that without accreditation you will not be able to issue a state diploma?
- After we branded Sergey, the documents were taken by no more than 5% of students. And the new set was quite successful. We accepted 350 people for the first year - only a little less than last year. This is despite the fact that I had to increase the tuition fee by one and a half times. Due to this, we got the opportunity to significantly raise the wages of teachers and we can choose the best. In total, we now have 1400 students. Of course, we warn everyone about everything. Parents and the applicants themselves make a conscious choice.
Now about accreditation. We have a license for educational activities, this is the main thing. Purely for practical considerations, not everyone is interested in state -sample diploma.
It is needed for admission to the civil service, and in the field of business, not “crusts” are in demand, but real knowledge and skills. In addition, there is a request for general culture, and especially for the culture of communication, communicative skills. We try to give all this to students.
We will receive accreditation sooner or later, because there are no legal reasons for refusal. It was most likely caused by stretched relations between the regional Minister of Education and Chernyshov. Now they both left their posts, you can begin cooperation from the clean sheet.
- How do you manage to avoid in the educational process of this very military propaganda, against which Chernyshov rebelled? I heard that high school students of several gymnasiums in Novosibirsk conspired in social networks and came to school lines on September 1 in caps from Volga. But they do not protect against all harmful radiation. Have you already met the history textbook edited by Medinsky?
- No, and I'm not going to. We are not a school and are not required to use school textbooks. In addition, as a private educational institution, we have the right to form our own curriculum. For us, the earth remains a ball, despite all the machinations of the "flat lands."
“But you must give students secondary education?”
- This is all right. Just now, freshmen are listening to the course of Russian history in the twentieth century from Alexandra Anikina, candidate of philosophical sciences from NSU. She also leads the elective “Social Anthropology” in our branch in Akademgorodok. This is if desired, of course. And so soon it will be with all objects. We fundamentally headed for the individualization of education.
- How is that? Is it possible to individualize such an obligatory subject as, for example, the Russian language?
- Why not? Some students dream of mastering eloquence. Others want to competently conduct personal blogs, or earn copywriting, or succeed in SMM. Still others learn to compose selling advertising slogans. Now everyone will have the opportunity to study exactly the Russian language that they need.
- I do not understand how it is possible from the point of view of organizing the educational process for almost one and a half thousand people.
- It is incredibly difficult to build training without a hard schedule and permanent training groups. The academic director Tatyana Zhmaeva is engaged in this task. She with colleagues of the first in Russia was able to introduce the system of individual educational trajectories in a large institution of secondary education. This feat has already been highly appreciated-Tatyana with her project entered the short list of the “Man of the Year” award in the field of education, established by the magazine “Business Quarter-Novosibirsk”.
But the most difficult thing in the individualization of education is to explain to adolescents that there is not a school here and you need to independently choose your own path. Under its own responsibility.
Teenagers are only so independent, and many are afraid of real freedom. The case of teachers is to provide the possibilities of education, the work of students - to use them. Well, or do not want to do anything. Mitrofanushki are also found. They see how their idols from Tik-Tok “are sutured” with a lot of money, barely able to read and write. We are not holding such. In the end, someone needs to work as a courier or sort boxes in the warehouse.
- We figured out secondary education. How do you prepare professionals?
- An ancient way, when the craft was taught the best in the profession. This is a system of master classes. I am well acquainted with many companies and top professional leaders in the areas of interest to us. Some agree to conduct master classes in college.
- Why do they need it? It is unlikely that good professionals are interested in the salary of the teacher ...
- They are interested in training personnel for their companies. Universities, as a rule, do not give students modern practical skills. Graduates have to retrain and finish. Sometimes it’s easier to prepare an employee from scratch. This is a mutually beneficial process. Our students get a chance to prove themselves and even before the release to claim a good job.
... It so happened that I am a little familiar with the parents of the boy, whom I noticed in the lobby of college. The same Pinocchio. His mother said that at his difficult age he communicates with his relatives with the help of interjections. But recently they all together went to buy his jeans. And suddenly he told his parents that they did not look around in vain, because the city center is full of architectural masterpieces of constructivism. And he conducted a full -fledged tour for the "ancestors". It turned out that the guy was really studying. And in general, not okhlamon, to the great surprise of the pope.
Irina Samakhova - for "New", Novosibirsk