Model of personalized financing of additional education. Parents are sounding the alarm! Personalized financing system destroys affordable additional education
PERM, April 1. /Corr. TASS Alla Mikheenko/. Opportunities for introducing personalized financing in additional children's education discussed by the participants of the interdepartmental council on additional education, which was held in Perm with the participation of the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Dmitry Livanov.
“Today there are two main issues on the agenda: the introduction of personalized financing in the field of additional education for children and the specifics of providing additional educational programs for children with disabilities and children with disabilities. disabilities", Livanov noted. Currently, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, "consistently implementing a system of personalized financing, is moving from a general plan to its testing in pilot regions within the framework of pilot projects," he said.
Money - for each student
Personalized financing involves identifying and “assigning” a child Money to the extent necessary for the implementation of the additional general education program, with the subsequent transfer of these funds to an organization of additional education or an individual entrepreneur.
“This system is being implemented not only to count the money spent on training, but is also used as a tool for accounting for the services that children receive in the field of additional education,” noted the speaker, director of the Center for Socio-Economic Development of the School of the Higher School of Economics, Sergei Kosaretsky .
It was noted at the council that the federal target program for the development of education in the Russian Federation provides for the allocation of funds to pilot regions of the Russian Federation for the implementation of a personalized financing model and for grants for topics legal entities, which implement and disseminate best practices and models of additional education for children.
Successful experience
According to the head of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, experience Perm region, where individual funding is implemented, there are full-time and correspondence schools for gifted children at national research universities - one of the most successful in the country. Personalized financing and accounting mechanisms make it possible to record the individual choice of each child in this area. “The innovative educational activities that are carried out in the Perm region are very important, and we highly appreciate them,” Livanov noted.
According to the Governor of the Perm Territory, Viktor Basargin, over 234 thousand children (75% of their total number) are involved in the additional education system of the Perm Territory. The availability of additional education in the region is 10% higher than the Russian average. "Total budget municipalities Territory for additional education is now about 4 billion rubles. Considering that the budget general education in the region is about 13 billion rubles. More than half of our municipalities were able to increase the proportion of children receiving additional education services,” noted the head of the region.
The interdepartmental council for additional education and upbringing of children was created in January 2014 for preliminary consideration of issues related to the implementation public policy in the field of upbringing and additional education of children. Representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation, and executive bodies of regional authorities took part in the meeting of the council.
19.12.2017 11:29The results of the implementation of personalized financing of additional education for children in 2017 were discussed by the participants of the II interregional scientific and practical conference “Innovations in additional education: experience and prospects,” which takes place in Yakutsk from December 18 to 20.
Let us recall that the testing of a new model - personalized financing of additional education for children began in the republic last year. The project is being developed by the Republican Resource Center “Young Yakutians”, a regional model center for additional education for children.
By the way, at the IV All-Russian meeting of workers in the field of additional education of children recently held in Moscow, the successful practice of Yakutia in implementing this innovation was noted.
The essence of the project is that each child who entered the experiment is given a personalized certificate - a personal guarantee from the state to a particular child that no matter what clubs or studios he chooses, in whatever organization (municipal, private, individual entrepreneur) ) he didn’t sign up for them, the state will pay for his education. If children are not interested somewhere and they start moving to other clubs, sections, studios, then the money will follow them. By the number of children who have chosen a certain activity, it is clearly visible what is in demand and what needs improvement.
27 uluses presented public defense of the results of the implementation of personalized financing of additional education for children in 2017. The experts were Eduard Kondratyev, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Republic; Tatyana Ivanova, deputy Head of the Department of Education and Additional Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic; Semyon Slavin, senior researcher at the Federal Institute for Educational Development, curator of the project on personalized financing; Maria Petrova, Ph.D., Director of the Republican Resource Center “Young Yakutians”, Head of the Regional Model Center for Additional Education of Children; Alena Semenova, senior methodologist of the Republican Resource Center “Young Yakutians”.
The speakers voiced information about the developed basic documents, the number of children using personalized certificates of additional education, the nominal value of certificates in each ulus, the use of financial resources, identified positive and negative sides project.
So, what do municipal representatives say about the introduction of a new financing model?
Yakutsk: “Nine institutions are taking part in the project, three of which are non-governmental. The number of certificates used by children is 5,297. The positive aspects include the fact that it is possible to see the real “movement” of certificate holders across institutions; spending of budget funds becomes more controlled and transparent; Competition has appeared between institutions; a significant part of the funds for education is reimbursed to parents whose children study in paid institutions - this increases the availability of additional education for children. At the same time, problems have emerged in determining the standard costs for providing services; some inconveniences in working with the portal (lack of ability to edit programs, contracts, access to the list of educational programs of other organizations); procedure for re-concluding certificate agreements.
Anabar national (Dolgan-Evenki) ulus: “88 children received certificates, the cost of one certificate is 12,420 rubles, there is only one service provider - the Center for Additional Education of Children. Thanks to personalized funding, transparency in the number of children saved and the number of children is ensured.”
Verkhnevilyuisky ulus: “Four institutions are participating in the experiment. The certificates were used by 515 children aged 5 to 14 years; the denominations of the certificates were set at 10,688 rubles. The poor quality of the Internet really hinders the work.”
Mirny: “Two government agencies are taking part in the experiment. Competition has emerged between teachers.”
Verkhoyansk ulus: “260 children in two institutions use the certificates. Effects of the project: student attendance and teacher performance increased. Parents do not have access to the Internet, a lot of time is spent filling out documents, drawing up reports, and the institution’s weak material resources – these are the reasons that slow down our work.”
Suntarsky ulus: “In order to preserve the number of children, we propose to expand network, part-time, distance learning, organize courses and seminars to help teachers develop advanced development programs, innovation programs, technical programs."
Mountain ulus: “If we take the coverage of children using certificates in the context of program areas, 41% are artistic, 28% technical, 26% social and pedagogical, 5% natural science. Of course, the quality of teachers’ work is improving. One of the principles of personalized financing – the participation of non-governmental organizations – has not been implemented. The financing scheme seems too complicated.”
Thus, regional features have emerged in the implementation of the new financial model in additional education children. The “advantages” of the new model are the increase in the quality of additional education programs, teachers’ salaries, the development of technical areas, and the possibility of measurable criteria in work. Almost everyone named such factors as holding back the implementation of the project, such as lack of competition, the high cost of the Internet, and the insufficient level of training of project participants.
Despite the presence of problems, the main advantage of the new model was noted - an increase in the number of children engaged in useful activities in clubs and studios.
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Press center of the Republican Resource Center "Young Yakutians"
On October 6, a meeting was held at the Sparrow Hills Educational Complex on the development of a system of additional education for children. The meeting was chaired by the Chairman of the Government Russian Federation YES. Medvedev. The report was made by the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation O.Yu. Vasilyeva.
Opening the meeting, the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation emphasized that it is the system of additional education, through early age helps children “discover their abilities, begin their path either to science or to some other field.”
YES. Medvedev recalled that the Government approved the Concept for the development of additional education and the action plan for its implementation for the period from 2015 to 2020.
Whenever possible, we increase funding in this area. A subsection “Expenditures on additional education” has been introduced in the federal budget. We provide subsidies to non-governmental organizations - on a competitive basis - that provide extracurricular programs. We have many projects that are implemented using public-private partnership mechanisms, with the participation of large companies and corporations,
- explained Dmitry Medvedev.
The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation said that additional education was allocated to a separate priority project “Affordable additional education for children”, and that it should change “both in form and in quality”, and also meet not only the needs of the children themselves and their parents, but and the country's development priorities.
D.A Medvedev clarified that the “core” of the new model of additional education should be.
At the same time, a personalized financing mechanism will be introduced, when children have the opportunity to study in extracurricular programs in organizations of any form of ownership.
We are now testing this mechanism in nine regions. If it works well, we will distribute it throughout the country,
- reported YES. Medvedev.
Speaking at the meeting with a report, O.Yu. Vasilyeva continued the topic of personalized financing.
The pilot direction for the development of the additional education system was introduction of personalized financing, certificate. The child comes with him to any additional education institution and does it for free. And also - the creation of regional model centers in which he can study,
- said Olga Yurievna.
The minister informed that in 9 pilot regions, 84,500 children took advantage of the certificates. Olga Yuryevna also drew attention to the fact that mechanisms of public-private and social partnership are beginning to develop in additional education.
We support the private sector through a mechanism for compensating interest on loans taken by non-governmental organizations to implement additional education programs,
- clarified O.Yu. Vasilyeva.
The head of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science said that the circle movement is currently developing as part of the implementation of the National Technology Initiative and emphasized that “chess, sports, literary, musical, scientific and technical».
The Minister noted that the most important issue is the availability of additional education for disabled children and children with disabilities.
In most regions of the Russian Federation, distance education is provided. Today, 13 thousand of our disabled children and children with disabilities use it, but this form of education is not the only one for these children. It is necessary to create other forms of additional education. And together with our colleagues, we are solving this within the framework of the “Accessible Environment” program for the second year in a row. The regions provide certain funds for these purposes. By 2020, it is planned to increase the coverage of the additional education program for children with disabilities and children with disabilities from 5 to 18 years old to 50 percent,
- said O.Yu. Vasilyeva.
The minister informed that 247 thousand teachers are currently involved in the additional education system. This number was achieved, according to the Minister, also thanks to work to increase wages.
Today it averages 32,900 rubles. Created modern conditions to develop new areas of work in the industry. Young specialists began to come there. Today, 36 percent of teachers under 35 years of their total number are employed there,
- said the Minister.
Participants spoke in favor of the speedy implementation of mechanisms for personalized financing of additional education in the regions round table, conducted by the ONF working group “Education and culture as the basis of national identity.” As part of the transition to this system, the All-Russian Popular Front is ready to join this process by launching the initiative “A free club for every child.”
Head of the ONF working group “Education and culture as the basis of national identity”, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science Lyubov Dukhanina noted that in 2015, 16.7 million additional education services were provided, of which 84.3% were provided in the city. , in rural areas – 14.3%. At the same time, 5 million children still do not have the opportunity to study in clubs and sections. The expert recalled that the topic of additional education has long been the focus of attention of the All-Russian Popular Front. She drew attention to the ongoing problems in additional education. Thus, the ONF receives numerous signals about the closure of additional education institutions and the reduction of art schools.
One illustration of this was the message of ONF experts from Dagestan, who said that in Derbent, the decision of local authorities provided for the liquidation of four municipal budgetary organizations additional education citing lack of funding. Important problems are also the lack of accurate statistics and the opacity of the system of financing additional education, which experts spoke about back in 2014 at the Popular Front forum “Quality education for the sake of the country.” ONF activists noted that such actions run counter to the “May Decree” of the Russian President, ONF leader Vladimir Putin, which provides for an increase in the number of children enrolled in additional educational programs to 70–75%.
The round table participants emphasized that the state is currently taking effective measures to increase the accessibility of additional education by introducing per capita and personalized financing. Thus, the personalized financing model is already being tested in seven pilot regions. According to the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation, a system of personalized financing of additional education will be introduced in the regions from January 1, 2018. Experts from the Popular Front, in turn, are ready to join this process by launching the initiative “Every child has a free club”, the main task of which is to provide an opportunity for everyone the child is guaranteed to receive additional education.
Director of the Department of State Policy in the Sphere of Education of Children and Youth of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation Igor Mikheev outlined the tasks to be solved - to ensure the availability of additional education in all regions, to create an objective accounting system, to introduce programs for additional education, to form management mechanisms, and to create model centers. He also agreed that in the process of implementing the project, the ONF and the Ministry of Education and Science should mutually complement each other.
The system of additional education should be transparent and equally accessible, emphasized Irina Abankina, director of the Institute for Development of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. According to her, the education development strategy sets the task of increasing the availability of quality education with the efficient use of resources. This places corresponding demands on financial distribution mechanisms. Regulatory per capita financing will create a unified basis for education for children living in different socio-economic, geographic and educational conditions, having different needs due to age and health status. Some regions have already accumulated best practices for introducing per capita and personalized financing mechanisms. These are the Kursk and Belgorod regions, Stavropol region and a number of other subjects.
Director of the Center for Socio-Economic School Development of the Institute for Development of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Sergei Kosaretsky noted that the introduction of new forms of financing should be accompanied by broad and accessible information to citizens about new opportunities in additional education for children.
Personalized financing should provide private organizations with access to budget funds, says Semyon Yankevich, a lecturer at the Institute of Development of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. This will improve the quality of educational programs and expand access to them. This can be achieved through the introduction of a subsidy system and a procurement mechanism social services, consumer certificates.
Representatives of the regions shared their experience in introducing new forms of financing additional services. Thus, the Minister of Education of the Tula Region Oksana Ostashko said that in the region they have expanded services in additional education organizations, opened a “Quantorium” and two mini-technoparks. The implemented mechanisms made it possible to make monitoring of the services provided transparent.
The head of the Department of Additional Education, Upbringing and Youth Policy of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Perm Territory, Dmitry Zhadayev, focused on the child registration system. The introduction of an electronic card in the region, in his opinion, made it possible to increase the regularity of receiving services, update their range, increase the coverage of adolescents and the number of technical courses. He also introduced the round table participants to the “Mobile Teacher” project, which is addressed primarily to additional education organizations located in hard-to-reach areas, and spoke about the idea of creating a mobile technology park.
Artem Metelev, co-chairman of the board of the Association of Volunteer Centers, spoke about the potential of the volunteer movement in the system of additional education for children and youth. According to him, more than 80% of volunteer centers organize classes for schoolchildren in local history, technical, artistic creativity and other areas. Almost every second university has created volunteer centers. Volunteers Special attention allocated to children with disabilities and orphanages.
Experts also emphasized that it is necessary to remove bureaucratic barriers that do not allow non-profit organizations be full participants in additional education for children, as well as train representatives educational organizations, improve their skills. They also agreed that many of the problems of access to best practices could be resolved by relaxing licensing requirements. Thus, it is possible to allow institutions that have a license to enable institutions that do not have one to conduct educational activities on the basis of a network interaction agreement.
In this regard, Dukhanina drew the attention of those present to the bill on the state social order for the provision of public services in social sphere, which will allow the non-state sector to receive funding from the federal budget.
“We ask regional activists of the Popular Front to organize monitoring of the real accessibility of additional education organizations,” said Dukhanina. – The monitoring results will form the basis of the ONF project “A free club for every child.”
We value your time, and therefore we just want to briefly tell you why your child needs a certificate and how the system of personalized financing of additional education works.
1) Contrary to popular belief, a certificate is not a document that a child must present to an organization in order to be accepted for training.The certificate is a personal guarantee from the state to a specific child that no matter what clubs or sections he chooses, no matter what organization (municipal, private, individual entrepreneur) he enrolls in them, the state will pay for his education.
2) The scope of the certificate is not determined by a limitation on the number of clubs or classes, it is determined directly in rubles. In this regard, just as a family determines in the family budget how much it can spend on this or that, the state determines the amount of funds that it is ready to personally allocate to pay for the additional education of each child.
3) The scope of provision of certificates, by deliberate decision of the authorities, can (and often should) vary for different categories of children. So, if a child shows talent, it is obvious that his pedagogical development will cost the budget more; children with disabilities should also receive more support, simply due to the additional need for pedagogical support.
4) Using the certificate, the child, together with the parent, can independently shape their educational trajectory. After choosing a program, part of the certificate funds is sent to pay for it, then the child uses the remainder to choose another program. Payment (or rather, even an additional payment) at the expense of the parent is expected only if the balance on the certificate is less than the cost of the program and only in the amount of the difference in cost.
5) To select programs, a register-navigator for programs is formed and maintained, into which not only programs are allowed municipal institutions, but also non-governmental organizations and individual entrepreneurs. These are the organizations that ensure compliance with legal requirements for educational activities.
By receiving the certificate you also receive access to your personal account of the information system. A personal account is essentially your access to a personal account, money from which can be used to pay for additional education received by children in municipal and private organizations. Organizations interested in the additional education of your children undergo independent certification of programs and are included in the register of educational service providers located in your personal account. You just have to choose among them. And based on the results of the child’s education, evaluate the chosen program. Thanks to you, the program registry will include the best organizations offering high-quality and interesting programs.
So, you are a full-fledged customer, you have money, you have the right to choose: where and in what program your child can study! The main thing is to remember: when the state transfers funds to you for your child’s education, it thinks that you will be able to manage them better than it does, so do everything you do for the sake of a successful future for your children!
