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anked third (after Moscow and St. Petersburg) in the federal competition
"The best region of Russia in terms of ICT" within the programme of
"Electronic Russia" for the use of ICT in education. The republic has made
such a breakthrough in providing educational institutions with computers,
because it recognized the priority of computerization and distance learning,
given the remoteness of its educational institutions not only from Russian
and foreign but even from Yakutsk research and methodological centers, and
their significant information isolation by force of circumstances.
Today, thanks to the implementation of National Priority Projects, initiated in
2006 by Russian President Vladimir Putin, all educational institutions of the
republic have access to broadband Internet. All secondary school graduates
speak Russian, native, foreign languages and are active users of ICT. The
generations born after the advent of computers and information technology,
are familiar with modern technologies.
Today, the teacher is not the only source of information and knowledge. Instant
communication technologies provide access to all relevant data. Nowadays
through Internet people can always get the most effective courses by the best
teachers. Modern school and college students no longer believe the myths that
used to exist before the Internet:
1. School is the best place for learning.
2. Intelligence is unchangeable.
3. The level of education is the result of teaching.
4. We all learn in the same way.
Even now, people sometimes confuse education with schooling, their health
with disease treatment and hospitals, law with lawyers. Earlier, some people
profited from this situation, as it helped to make people less self-reliant and
less eager to make decisions about their life. But the society is undergoing
huge changes, the transition from the old system to the new one is under
way. Parents wonder why children are being prepared for life in the past,
and not for the life in the future. Recent polls in Yakutia confirm a positive
attitude of people of the republic towards changes in its educational system,
particularly in the sphere of higher professional education. According to the
federal educational policy of the country, establishment and development
of federal universities is regarded as an instrument of social and economic
advancement of the regions within federal districts and development of an
innovative economy in Russia in general.
For the period up to 2030, the Government of the Russian Federation expects
Yakutia and its surrounding areas to meet a number of challenging social
and economic objectives requiring a new quality of economic growth and
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