With the collapse of the Soviet Union, in November 1991The acting Ministry of Education of the RSFSR was transformed. On its basis, through the unification of several other republican committees, the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR was created. And at the end of December the name of the state changed. And the ministry was renamed into the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation is a body of state authority,whose activity is the implementation of the state policy on normative and legal regulation in the field of science, public education, youth policy, guardianship and trusteeship, social protection and support of pupils of educational institutions.
During the twenty-six years of the existence of the new Russia, eight people held the post of Minister of Education of Russia.
№№ pp | Surnames | Period of work in office |
1 | E. D. Dneprov | From 07.1990 to 12.1992. |
2 | E. V. Tkachenko | From 12.1992 to 08.1996 |
3 | VG Kinelev | From 08.1996 to 02.1998. |
4 | AN Tikhonov | From 02.1998 to 09.1998. |
5 | V.M. Filippov | From 09.1998 to 03.2004 |
6 | AA Fursenko | From 03.2004 to 05.2012 |
7 | D. V. Livanov | From 05.2012 to 08.2016. |
8 | O.Yu. Vasilyeva | From August 2016 to the present. |
All ministers of education in Russia, each in their time, made a great contribution to the preservation and development of the system of teaching the population of the country.
Edward Dmitrievich Dneprov - Academician, Doctor of Ped. Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences. He is rightfully considered a reformer of Russian education in the period of the formation of the newly formed state.
On his shoulders lay the burden of reorganization of the Ministryformation of the RSFSR in the Ministry of Education of Russia. Since December 1992, he was an adviser to President Boris Yeltsin, BN Dneprov, ED - author of many works on the history of Russian pedagogy and school.
After Eduard Dneprov, the ministry headed Ye.V. Tkachenko, previously worked as the rector of the Sverdlovsk Institute of Physics, professor, doctor of chemical sciences. Having become a minister, he declared a moratorium on the privatization of all property in all structures of the ministry. He was a supporter of the humanitarization and democratization of education.
In August 1996, the State Committee was abolishedhigher education of the Russian Federation. His functions were transferred to the Ministry of Education, while changing the name of the ministry. Since August 14, it became the Ministry of General and Professional Education. Minister appointed Kinelev V.G.
From February to the end of September 1998, theMinister was occupied by the former First Deputy Minister of Education of Russia, AN Tikhonov - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Academician. He is known for his work on materials science in the cosmic and radiation fields. Since October 1998, he moved to work on methodological and scientific support for the informatization of schools and schools in the country, the methodology of applying information technologies in the educational and scientific fields.
In September 1998, Filippov was appointed Minister. Before that, he was the rector of the famous PFUR. The government came along with Primakov EM
Together with the Deputy Prime MinisterMatvienko V. I. began work to stabilize the situation in the field of education and upbringing, paying special attention to reducing the arrears of wages for school teachers and kindergarten teachers.
Ministry of General and Professional Education in May 1999year was renamed the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. In the same year, the state program for the development and improvement of the system for the period from 2000 to 2004 was approved. At the initiative of Filippov active renewal of the system and principles of education was started. In early 2000, Filippov in Moscow held a Congress of teachers and educators of Russia, which the previous ministers did not conduct.
Vladimir Mikhailovich spent almost completemodernization of the education system. Provided schools with buses, conducted informatization in educational institutions, new standards of general education were developed and introduced. Gradual introduction of the Unified State Examination began. The system of recruitment of students to universities of the country began on the basis of university, regional and all-Russian Olympiads. The rules of the target quoted direction of young people for training in certain higher educational institutions and much more have been approved.
In 2004, the Prime Minister M. Fradkov transferred A. A. Fursenko from the Ministry of Industry to the Ministry of Education and Science.
Rector of MISiS was appointed to the vacant seat.Dmitry Livanov. He was a supporter of reducing the number of universities. He proposed to deprive licenses of budget financing of all inefficient institutions of higher education.
Who is the Minister of Education of Russia?Since August 2016, this position is occupied by Olga Vasilyeva, Doctor of Historical Sciences. For the year of work at the entrusted post, she, like all previous ministers of education of Russia, has shown herself to be an official, who is happy for the prosperity of the national science and education.
