Ministers of Education of Russia in different years

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:43

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, in November 1991, the current Ministry of Education of the RSFSR was transformed. On its basis, by combining several more 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 the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.

All the names of the Ministers of Education of Russia

The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation is a state authority whose activity is the implementation of state policy on regulatory and legal regulation in the field of science, public education, youth policy, guardianship and guardianship, social protection and support for pupils of educational institutions.

During the twenty-six years of the existence of the new Russia, 8 people have served as Minister of Education of Russia.

pp	Surnames	Period of employment
1	E. D. Dneprov	Since 07.1990to 12.1992
2	E. V. Tkachenko	From 12.1992 to 08.1996
3	B. G. Kinelev	From 08/1996 to 02/1998
4	A. N. Tikhonov	From 02/1998 to 09/1998
5	B. M. Filippov	From 09/1998 to 03/2004
6	A. A. Fursenko	From 03.2004 to 05.2012
7	D. V. Livanov	From 05/2012 to 08/2016
8	Oh. Y. Vasilyeva	August 2016 to date.

All the ministers of education of Russia, each at one time, made a great contribution to the preservation and development of the education system of the country's population.

The first elected Minister of Education of the Russian Federation

Eduard Dmitrievich Dneprov - academician, doctor of ped. Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences. He is rightfully considered a reformer of Russian education during the formation of the newly formed state.

The burden of reorganization of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR into the Ministry of Education of Russia fell on his shoulders. Since December 1992, he was an adviser to President Yeltsin B. N. Dneprov E. D. - the author of many works on the history of Russian pedagogy andschools.

Second Minister

After Eduard Dneprov, the ministry was headed by E. V. Tkachenko, who had previously worked as the rector of the Sverdlovsk Institute of Institute of Psychology, professor, doctor of chemical sciences. Having become a minister, he announced a moratorium on the privatization of all property in all structures of the ministry. He was a supporter of the humanization and democratization of education.

Ministry of General and Vocational Education

In August 1996, the State Committee for Higher Education of the Russian Federation was abolished. Its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Education, at the same time changing the name of the ministry. On August 14, it became the Ministry of General and Vocational Education. Kinelev V. G. was appointed Minister

From February to the end of September 1998, the post of Minister was held by the former First Deputy Minister of Education of Russia A. N. Tikhonov - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Academician. He is known for his work on materials science in space and radiation fields. Since October 1998, he moved to work on the methodological and scientific support of informatization of schools and colleges of the country, the methodology for the application of information technologies in the educational and scientific sphere.

Filippov V. M

In September 1998, Filippov V. M. was appointed minister. Before that, he was the rector of the famous RUDN University. Came to the government together with Primakov E. M.

Together with Deputy Prime Minister Matvienko V. I., he began to work to stabilize the situation in the field of education and upbringing, paying special attention to reducing wage arrears to school teachers andkindergarten teachers.

The Ministry of General and Vocational Education in May 1999 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, an active renewal of the system and principles of education has begun. In early 2000, Filippov held the Congress of Teachers and Educators of Russia in Moscow, which the previous ministers did not hold.

Vladimir Mikhailovich carried out an almost complete modernization of the education system. Provided schools with buses, carried out informatization in educational institutions, new standards of general education were developed and introduced. The gradual introduction of the Unified State Examination has begun. The system of recruiting students to the country's universities on the basis of university, regional and all-Russian Olympiads began to work. The rules for the targeted quota sending of young people to study at certain higher educational institutions and much more have been approved.

Russian Ministry of Education and Science

In 2004, Prime Minister M. Fradkov transfers A. A. Fursenko from the Ministry of Industry to the Ministry of Education and Science.

The Minister of Education and Science of Russia (now this is the name of the Ministry) began his work by continuing the reforms initiated by Filippov. Under him, the Unified State Examination was finally put into effect in all eleventh grades. Higher education has become two-level: undergraduate and graduate. In 2012, when V. Putin again became President, Fursenko went to work in hismachine.

The rector of MISiS Dmitry Livanov was appointed to the vacant seat. He was a supporter of reductions in the number of universities. He proposed to deprive all inefficient higher educational institutions of their licenses of budget financing.

Minister today

Who is the Minister of Education of Russia now? Since August 2016, this position has been held by Olga Vasilyeva, Doctor of Historical Sciences. For a year of work in the entrusted position, she proved herself, like all previous ministers of education of Russia, as an official who cares for the prosperity of domestic science and education.