Abilympics Inclusive Forum was launched at the RUSSIA EXPO
Forum
participants will discuss the development of inclusive vocational education:
its accessibility and quality, career guidance and employment of people with
disabilities and health limitations. The event is organized by the FSBEI SPE
"Institute for the Development of Vocational Education" together with
the Russian Society "Knowledge".
The Forum
opened with a plenary session "Abilympics - the Flagship of Inclusive
Vocational Education" with the participation of representatives of the
Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Science and
Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social
Protection of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian
Federation, the Institute for the Development of Vocational Education, the
Federal Methodological Center for Inclusive Education, the National Center
"Abilympics", the Russian Society "Knowledge".
The event
was attended by Tatevik Karabekyan, Deputy Director of the Department of State
Policy in Secondary Vocational Education and Vocational Training of the
Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation; Tatyana Romanova, Vice-Rector
of the FSBEI SPE "Institute for the Development of Vocational
Education"; Albina Bikbulatova, Director for Work with Educational
Organizations of the Russian Society "Knowledge"; Denis Shamgunov,
Deputy Director of the Department of Employment and Labor Migration of the Ministry
of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation; Yegor Kazakov,
Vice-Rector for Inclusive Projects of the Russian State Specialized Academy of
Arts; Igor Namakonov, CEO of the Federation of Creative Industries; Svetlana
Kharlamova, Head of the Resource Educational and Methodological Center of K.D.
Ushinsky Institute of Secondary Vocational Education of Moscow State
Pedagogical University; Andrey Pominov, First Deputy Minister of Education and
Science, Republic of Tatarstan; Evgenia Matarzhuk, Deputy Minister and Head of
the Department of General Education, Ministry of Education and Science of the
Khabarovsk region; Svetlana Anokhina, Director of the Center for Social
Adaptation and Vocational Training, Moscow Technological College No. 21. The
session was moderated by Dina Makeeva, Head of the Federal Methodological
Center for Inclusive Education of the National Center "Abilympics".
"This
year the Abilympics movement turns ten years old. During these years we have
achieved huge results. We started with a very small number of participants, but
now we have more than 90 thousand of them. Many of them have grown from
schoolchildren to specialists and masters of industrial training", - said
the Head of the Federal Methodological Center for Inclusive Education of the
National Center "Abilympics" Dina Makeeva.
Tatyana
Romanova spoke about the results of the Abilympics movement achieved over the
years of its existence.
"The
Abilympics movement is one of the priority directions realized by the Ministry
of Education of Russia. On the instructions of President Vladimir Vladimirovich
Putin, the order of the Russian government established the annual holding of
Abilympics championships in Russia. The professional skills championships have
been held since 2015, and since 2017 they have been part of the unique
presidential program "Russia - Land of Opportunity". Since 2015, 90
thousand people with disabilities and health limitations became participants of
Abilympics championships from the age of 14. More than 93% of them have been
employed at more than 2.5 thousand enterprises-partners of the movement. The
number of Russian subjects where regional championships are held has increased
from 29 to 89, and the number of participants has grown from 254 to 21576
people," said Tatyana Romanova, Vice-Rector of the Institute for the
Development of Professional Education.
Tatevik
Karabekyan in her speech addressed the topic of the tasks that Abilympics faces
today.
"The
Ministry of Education has a number of tasks for this and the next years in
terms of inclusive and secondary vocational education. I would like to remind you that we have just
over 3000 organizations that conduct admission and provide training for persons
with disabilities and health limitations. At the same time, enrollment and
graduation rates are gradually increasing, and the contingent is also
expanding. However, the list of programs for which children are enrolled is
roughly the same everywhere and does not always correspond to the list of
programs that are the most promising and in demand within a particular subject.
Today, the issue of matching personnel to the demands of the labor market is on
the agenda. The key indicator in the system of secondary vocational education
is employment, so the Abilympics movement development centers and basic
vocational organizations have a task to adjust the system of inclusive
secondary vocational education to the demands of the labor market,"
emphasized Tatevik Karabekyan, Deputy Director of the Department of State
Policy in Secondary Vocational Education and Vocational Training of the
Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
The integration of special military operation veterans into peaceful life and the interaction between regions and municipalities were discussed as part of the Forum "SMALL HOMELAND – THE STRENGTH OF RUSSIA".
The second All-Russian Municipal Forum "Small Homeland – the Strength of Russia" is taking place at the National Centre RUSSIA.
