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President Gitan Nausda’s press conference. Photo by Vladimir Ivanovo (V)
During the year, President Gitan Nausda carried out early primary education, as well as compulsory compulsory school attendance. According to him, these initiatives provide opportunities to better prepare children at social risk for school and to equalize initial opportunities with wealthy children.
The text was complemented by the comments of the President and his advisor on the new initiatives planned in the field of education.
I believe that changing the age of preschool and primary education in the year is significant and necessary, as more extensive research and practical observations show that the earlier children receive preschool education, the better they integrate with their peers, the more receptive they are to success. in high school and then they have fewer patches to fix later, G. Nausda said at a news conference Monday.
As Jolanta Karpaviien, the president’s senior adviser on education, science and culture, later told reporters, preschool education should start at age five and primary education at age five.
We would apply the T system flexibly, taking into account the needs and abilities of each child. If teachers see that a child is too young for a year starting at age five, it allows them to spend two years in preschool and start school as it is now starting at age seven, she said.
According to the advisor, the goal is for these changes to be implemented from 2022.
According to the head of the press conference, there are about 4,500 preschool-age children in families at social risk, around a third never attend kindergarten, others receive insufficient funding, so they are not sufficiently prepared to start the primary education.
We estimate that almost 9 million would be needed to make preschool compulsory. EUR. And that’s the amount the state budget will be able to pay, both in terms of landslide services and other improved conditions, he said.
These amendments require certain statutory amendments, which we will initiate and submit to the Seimas next week, added G. Nausda.
At the end of June, the Seimas will adopt amendments to the education law, which will eliminate discriminatory provisions for children with special educational needs: they will be able to attend the nearest general school in their place of residence and will be adopted on an equal footing with others students. These legal provisions will be final from 2024.
G. Nausda stresses that it is not socially correct for children with special needs to be placed in special ghettos, where they do not receive the educational services that they can receive in general schools. It is extremely wrong that children with special needs are not admitted to schools because they are not prepared to receive them. accept both in terms of special pedagogical skills and in terms of technical infrastructure, he said.
According to the head of the country, at this time at least 6,000 additional positions of special pedagogues or teacher assistants would be needed: if the system is fully implemented, it would cost almost 35 million euros in a year.
Regarding higher education and research and experimental development (R&D), the head of state stated that investments in the field are currently insufficient.
Currently, only 0.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) is spent on R&D and 0.3% of GDP goes to the budget. We believe that the figure should double in the coming years to reach 2% of GDP, of which a small percentage would go to the state budget, said G. Nausda.
G. Nausda emphasizes that the changes in educational institutions, students and parents should have been informed much earlier, although the Minister of Education, Science and Sports Algirdas Monkeviius said on Monday that the threat of the coronavirus for the adjusted school year was prepared and not last night, but quarantined. years.
Even now, we have the question of whether it is not fully decided whether it is mandatory for students to walk in common areas with masks, or whether it is a recommended provision. And we start the school year tomorrow. These are probably the facts that speak for themselves, the head of state commented.
He emphasizes that the school year begins normally, but when the situation worsens, it will be necessary to show a lot of immunity.
In accordance with the recommendations made by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports, in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, schools instruct to organize the educational process in flows, to ensure that children from different groups or classes do not mix. each other, to feed them separately.
Due to the quarantine announced by the country’s schools at the end of the school year remotely, as the new school year approaches, it is not ruled out that part of the teaching process also takes place at home.
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