Olga Vasilyeva
The Minister of education of Russia Olga Vasilyeva made for the reduction in the number studying in schools of foreign languages. In her opinion, the program should write only one — English. She told about it on Wednesday, September 27, in an interview with RT.
“We are not able to afford all schools the two languages, we will not learn them! We need to know well Russian language, which we know is not very good. We need to know a foreign language, preferably English is the language of international communication today”, — said the head of the Ministry of education.
According to her, the Ministry plans to 2020 as an experiment to write the exam only one foreign language, and in 2022 to introduce this educational norm as binding.
“If the school can take [the second language], this is nothing wrong, it is welcome, if the child can learn a second language: there are at this time, there is techniques, there’s teachers, there is the possibility of it. But I believe that it is better to know one foreign language, not having in this case a fraud and shapkozakidatelstvom” — said Vasilyev.
From September 2015 the second foreign language at school is mandatory. In 2016, Vasilyev said that the schools will introduce the lessons of astronomy at the expense of hours devoted to the study of a second foreign language.