Meeting with Students of Tomsk Universities.Part 11
February 11, 2010
Tomsk
Встреча со студентами томских университетов.
11 февраля 2010 года Томск
I remember what the situation was like when we started this work. Schools had no laboratory equipment of any kind then. All the retorts and test tubes, physics instruments and so on had all long since been broken. What are you studying? Psychology? In that case, you dont need retorts, you need to look others in the eyes. But the situation with laboratory equipment was absolutely dreadful. We have re-equipped schools since then, giving them modern and quite decent equipment. Practically all schools have received these new supplies now, and this is a good thing.
Then there is the transport issue. This is particularly important for rural areas. We have carried out the School Bus programme. At first, I feared all sorts of problems, lack of money, poor quality buses. But we came up with the funds, and the regions deserve praise for getting involved in the programme, so that now practically every region has its own buses, its own programme, and a large number of schoolchildren use these buses to get to their schools.
This is extremely important for rural areas, all the more so as they face the problem of schools where there are not enough pupils. In some cases we are forced to merge these small schools into one larger school. This is a good thing because it improves the teaching standards. If you have one and the same teacher teaching physics, singing, chemistry and drawing you can hardly expect them to have the same high level of skill in each of these areas, whereas in big schools this is not such a problem. It is better to transport children to the nearest big school, even if it means spending half an hour in the bus, than to have them attend the local village school that has practically nothing to offer.
This does not mean that we should close down all schools with few pupils, however. This is a separate issue and I will not tire you with it now. It is something for us to work on.
You three young ladies sitting together there, you can ask a question, but not all at once. Yes, you over there.
How long have we been talking so far?
RESPONSE: About an hour. There is still a little time left.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Alright, lets keep going a little longer.
QUESTION: My name is Anna Guskova and I study at Tomsk Polytechnic University. I am not going to ask you any questions.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Is that so.
ANNA GUSKOVA: Yes, I just wanted to say thank you for your support for science.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Thank you.
ANNA GUSKOVA: And not just technical science but the humanities too. We all realise, after all, that a developed country has to be developed in all different areas.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Of course.
ANNA GUSKOVA: We are very happy to see this support.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: What are you studying?
ANNA GUSKOVA: Management of companies.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: I see.
ANNA GUSKOVA: My fellow students and I won a presidential grant for our research.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: My congratulations.
ANNA GUSKOVA: We are very happy to see this support and we hope that it will continue to be provided not just for the technical sciences but for the humanities as well.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Thank you for these kind words. They are very important to me. Thank you. (Applause.)
Lets go a little higher. You young people up there, whoever is first to his feet gets to speak.
QUESTION: I am Yevgeny Sevastyanov from Tomsk State University. Mr President, everyone is talking a lot about economic modernisation today. There is the Presidential Committee for
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Presidential Commission.
QUESTION: on economic modernisation. I wanted to ask you, are there plans to get university research work involved in these projects? Various ministries and organisations are responsible for carrying out these projects. If we are talking about the Education Ministry it is clear that universities research potential will be involved in one way or another. But if we are talking about, say, the Russian Space Agency or the FSB [Federal Security Service], how can our young research teams get involved in their programmes? Are there mechanisms in place?
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: I think it depends on how well we coordinate our work. Of course young teams should have the opportunity to take part in university-based programmes and in sector-based research projects too. This is what you have in mind, isnt it?
YEVGENY SEVASTYANOV: Yes.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: I think that in this respect we need to come up with a mechanism that will make it possible to attract promising young scientists into this sector-based research, including those from universities not connected with the sectors in question.
YEVGENY SEVASTYANOV: This is exactly what is required.
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