There is a lot of discussion, which is surprising in industrial circles, about school education. In March, at the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a proposal was made to cancel the Unified State Exam; in April, at the Presidium of the State Council on Industry, it was proposed to return drawing to the school curriculum. We are talking about the initiatives of industrialists in the education and training of young specialists with the vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, chairman of the board of directors of Ruspolimet JSC Viktor Klochai.

- Victor Vladimirovich, why such attention of industrialists to school?

"There are no mysteries here. It is very simple to characterize the importance of school education with the phrase of American President John F. Kennedy, who said that the Soviet Union won the space race at the school desk, thereby recognizing the unconditional, indisputable advantage of school education.

School education is a basic education that is further transformed into concrete skills to think, analyze, create, learn further.

Today, there is probably no need to talk about the abolition of the Unified State Exam, because this is one of our characteristic features - we are trying to erase everything that was before, and we have done it many times. In this regard, it is probably necessary to talk about some kind of transformation of this system. The good thing is that the graduate can confirm his knowledge in the form of points, with which he already enters universities on a competitive basis. This should be saved. The question is different. How to eliminate contradictions between assessments and knowledge? I was a participant in the conversation when it came to tutoring, and today tutoring has been going on since the first grade, and this is also nonsense, which was formed in the process of transformation of education, and the teacher asks the question, why do you need tutoring - to gain knowledge or to take a Unified state exam.

As a graduate of the school, I passed seven exams - in mathematics, physics, chemistry, Russian language, literature, history and a foreign language. This is a package that was considered basic, fundamentally important for a graduate, for a person entering adulthood. It is important to provide classical education in the main subjects so that the child is immediately focused on the need to study the full school curriculum.

What is best in the Unified State Exam system, in my opinion, needs to be analyzed, left, what does not meet the requirements of the time, reviewed, what was best in the programs of earlier periods, including the Soviet one, meaningfully returned. And then the child goes to college or university, everyone has their own choice, but a good basic school education is the foundation of the basics.

"It is important that the teaching profession is prestigious"

And of course, in my opinion, special attention should be paid to raising the status of a teacher, because, unfortunately, these conversations about the fact that a teacher is a service worker, it just sounds blasphemous. The teacher teaches not only the subject, a good classical teacher teaches a lot.

My grandmother was a village teacher. I remember well how we were walking through the village with her, and everyone greeted us: "Hello, Lyubov Matveyevna." What did that mean? This indicated that there was a status and there was a responsibility. The teacher had a responsibility to these people who treat her like that. And she was thinking about how to make their children worthy people.

Therefore, the salary and additional social guarantees - a social package, if you want, the teacher should have. It is necessary to do everything so that the teaching profession is prestigious, so that teachers go by vocation.

- It is known that enterprises are faced with an acute shortage of specialists. What do you think, the industrialist's view, needs to be done to balance the situation?

- Look, we have come to a period when several factors coincided. Until recently, technical universities could not recruit students, school graduates went to managers, economists, lawyers.

I think the Prime Minister's initiative on secondary vocational educational institutions is very correct, which allows enterprises to use investment tax deductions to improve the material and technical base of technical schools and colleges. The Nizhny Novgorod Region was the first to respond and adopted the relevant regional law. So, in Kulebaki, we will use this mechanism to support and develop the metallurgical college.

The second factor is the situation we are in in terms of demography. Today, of course, serious measures have been taken by the government. At the same time, employers should also participate in this. We are talking about creating conditions for young families, affordable long mortgages, support for large families.

The company has a potential opportunity, as much as it is, it is necessary to use it to support families with children. The father and mother work at the factory, there should be additional payments for the first child, second, third, fifth child. The state, for its part. We have made such decisions at our enterprises.

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The results of the work of the industry of the Nizhny Novgorod region in 2022 were summed up at a meeting with the participation of Governor Gleb Nikitin. Metallurgy has become the leader among the manufacturing industries in terms of shipment growth: plus 31% in monetary terms. As Viktor Klochay, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ruspolimet, noted, all the group's enterprises completed last year with growth, while the foundations for sustainable development in the future were created.
The heads of the leading enterprises of the region gathered in the stamp hall of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair on March 31. Gleb Nikitin thanked the industrialists for their work in 2022. By joint efforts of the government and business, it was possible to prevent negative consequences in the conditions of external pressure. The industry maintained positive dynamics at the end of the year: physical production volumes increased by 0.1%, shipments in monetary terms - by 12%.

"Of course, this made it possible to prevent the scientific and technological process from stopping at enterprises. They are all developing, and we are confidently looking to the future," the governor said.


The head of the regional Ministry of Industry Maxim Cherkasov introduced the results by industry. Metallurgy has become the leader among the processing industries in terms of shipment growth in monetary terms: plus 31%. The largest Nizhny Novgorod metallurgical enterprises continue investment projects.

"In 2022, Ruspolimet JSC implemented a number of investment projects to create new and modernize existing production facilities with a total investment of more than 1.7 billion rubles, which allowed the company to increase revenue by more than 5 billion rubles in 2022," the minister said.



According to Viktor Klochai, all the group's enterprises completed last year with a positive result. "I am very grateful to the teams of all the enterprises of the group. All, without exception, finished the year with growth, and with growth slightly greater than in the region: Ruspolimet - by 31%, Grankom - by 46%, Drobmash - by 60%, - said the head of the Ruspolimet group
Drobmash, according to the industrialist, has serious groundwork in the development of the production of gasostats - aggregates for the production of products from metal powders. This is a new direction for the plant and the most important for the country.

"A lot of work was done last year, which allowed this year, in March, to conduct hydro-tests of a unique unit - a gas station, the 3rd in size in the world. The hydro-tests were successful, and there is confidence that the project has taken place. Today there are already orders for 6-7 gas stations, orders for hydrostats have appeared. This direction is becoming important for the region and for the whole country," Viktor Klochai said.

The head of Ruspolimet added that the group's enterprises also fulfilled their planned plans for the first quarter of the year. "I think we have to cope with the tasks that stand for this year," the industrialist summed up.

On the same day, a meeting of the Council of the Nizhny Novgorod Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs was held. The heads of enterprises discussed proposals for new measures to support the industry, which will soon be submitted to the federal level.



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Vice-President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Head of the Ruspolimet Group Viktor Klochai took part in the annual congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, which was held on March 16 at the Moscow International House of Music on the Kosmodamianskaya Embankment.

The main topics of the meeting were import substitution and ensuring the technological sovereignty of the country, personnel training, improvement of state support measures for business.

President Vladimir Putin spoke at the congress. The Head of State noted that the country's economy is starting to develop according to a new model. And in the second quarter, GDP growth is expected compared to the level of last year.

"The active, creative position of the RSPP and the business community as a whole is especially in demand now, when the Russian economy is acquiring a fundamentally different quality, starting to develop according to a new model, as was said recently in a message to the Federal Assembly," the president said.

The congress was attended by about 1 thousand delegates - the largest entrepreneurs, representatives of small and medium-sized businesses, members of the government of Russia, heads of ministries and departments.

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