Ildar Khalikov takes part in meeting on preparation for academic year
27 August 2014, Wednesday
On August 27, Head of Tatarstan Government Ildar Khalikov took part in All-Russia video conference meeting on readiness of the educational system for the new academic year 2014–2015 hld by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Speaking about development of the educational system in 2014, Dmitry Medvedev noted that 50 billion roubles of federal funds were allocated for regulating queuing system in kindergartens. The problem was completely solved in 29 regions.
According to Russian Prime Minister, 499 new kindergartens and 55 schools will open this year.
Dmitry Medvedev called heads of regions to pay attention to construction of new kindergartens as well as major repair and construction of schools.
Dmitry Medvedev noted that in new academic year children in Crimea will start studying in accordance with Russian educational standards, and children from Ukrainian families will go to Russian schools on September 1.
Russian Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov, who took part in the meeting, made a detailed report on preparation for new academic year.
On 1 April Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko introduced Ayrat Farrakhov, who was appointed the Acting Rector of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) to its staff.
In his speech Mikhail Murashko emphasized that today KSMU is rightfully considered one of the most respected in the country and said:”Ayrat (Zakievich) has been officially appointed the Acting Rector and I am sure that under his leadership the University will maintain the positions it has achieved and, of course, will continue its development.”
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Azat Ziganshin informed that the regional central cleaning up action will be held in the republic on 25 April and clarified that the location of the national cleanup day will be announced later as the site will be chosen taking into account the opinions of Tatarstan residents.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional and the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin informed about statistics on the collection of utility bills payments from the population and data on the payment discipline of enterprises and organizations of the republic.