Education Reform Project

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The Education Reform Project aims to provide assistance to the Ministry of Education and competitively selected regions of Russia to reform general and initial vocational education in order to improve quality and standards; promote the efficient and equitable use of scarce public resources for education; modernize the education system; and improve the flexibility and market-relevance of initial vocational education. The project has two main components. At the federal level, the project will build capacity to support the education reform strategy of the Russian government through the development of new policies, services, and procedures. The sub-components include: education policy reform, quality monitoring and statistics, training and retraining, and courses for new professions and teaching and learning materials to develop work-related core skills. At the regional level, the project will pilot essential reforms in general and initial vocational education in three regions selected on a transparent basis: Samara Oblast, Yaroslavl Oblast, and the Chuvash Republic. A third component, Project Management, will fund effective project coordination.