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DRAFT RESOLUTION ON EDUCATION POLICY GOES TO FINAL DISCUSSION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A plenary meeting of the parliamentary session on Thursday continued a first discussion of a draft resolution of parliament on the state policy on education. The discussion started last Friday to debate principally different terms of the policy. This time, the MPs thoroughly considered the terms, then a majority backed a clause on developing the primary education by creating opportunities for children to gain essential skills and knowledge of the native language and to have a creative method of learning. The MPs expressed positions, for example, Ts.Nyamdorj was not satisfied with nowadays pupils' poor study of the Mongolian language. "Good learning of the native language is closely related to the national independence," he stressed. The working group in charge of introducing the Cambridge standards in Mongolia said,"There is a misconception that the implementation of these standards prevents learning the mother tongue," and explained that educating through the Cambridge norms does not mean all the lessons are going to run in English, "it aims to make the certificate of full secondary education internationally accepted and to provide pupils with a condition of learning subjects at international standards". According to the draft resolution, the general education must have a 12-year system where the primary education takes lasts five years, a basic education--four years, and a full secondary education--three. Here O.Enkhtuvshin criticized that it is wrong in terms of logic, so the working group had to accept it deciding to make some alterations. The the MPs considered a gender ratio at educational organizations. By a survey of the academic years of 2014-2015, women account for 98% in number of kindergarten teachers, 81.2%--of secondary education schools teachers, and 61.5%--of universities and institutes instructors. The working group proposed focusing on this ratio and regulating a system of preparing teachers through the policy. It was decided to pass the draft resolution to the Standing committee on social policy, education, culture and science in order to have prepared it for the final discussion.

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