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Grown-up problems of child institutions
Vereschaginsk's district newspaper published an article with this title interviewing director of district educational administration, A.G. Nohrin. Here are some quotations.
Vereschaginsk district was in a center of attention for a long time due to 'Sepych's case'. Peoples opinions on this matter are mixed. What can you say about this?
During a monitoring audit at Sepych school the prosecution office detected a fact of unlicensed software usage. After this the action was brought. Federal law makes responsible those, who sold it, and those, who used it. A school is a juridical person. So the director of an educational institution turned out to be responsible according to the law and school regulation.
But the subject of the case went beyond the educational institution. This problem is relevant not only for one school, and not only for an educational system, but for the whole of Russia. Low level of education in this field does not let people differentiate a licensed product from an unlicensed one. Since computer world evolves quickly and has drawn a lot of interest, the reaction that followed was boisterous as well. Different organizations got involved – ex president of USSR M. Gorbachev, Minister of Education of the Russian Federation, Minister of Education of Perm Region and many others.
As a constitutor, we are happy with the court's decision: educational institution does not carry material sanctions, and its headmaster does not get prosecuted under the Criminal law.
A headmaster is a leader of pedagogical team. And his prime duties is not an ability to use computers, but an ability to manage his or her team with pedagogical ethics.
We are uncomfortable for this incident. I, as a director of district's educational administration, would like to apologize to Microsoft for big fuss around this case. We would like to assure, that this problem was not created by our office.
Now everything depends on the position of the headmaster: to finish the case and go on with his main duties – getting the school ready for unified state exams.
Vereschaginsk's district newspaper published an article with this title interviewing director of district educational administration, A.G. Nohrin. Here are some quotations.
Vereschaginsk district was in a center of attention for a long time due to 'Sepych's case'. Peoples opinions on this matter are mixed. What can you say about this?
During a monitoring audit at Sepych school the prosecution office detected a fact of unlicensed software usage. After this the action was brought. Federal law makes responsible those, who sold it, and those, who used it. A school is a juridical person. So the director of an educational institution turned out to be responsible according to the law and school regulation.
But the subject of the case went beyond the educational institution. This problem is relevant not only for one school, and not only for an educational system, but for the whole of Russia. Low level of education in this field does not let people differentiate a licensed product from an unlicensed one. Since computer world evolves quickly and has drawn a lot of interest, the reaction that followed was boisterous as well. Different organizations got involved – ex president of USSR M. Gorbachev, Minister of Education of the Russian Federation, Minister of Education of Perm Region and many others.
As a constitutor, we are happy with the court's decision: educational institution does not carry material sanctions, and its headmaster does not get prosecuted under the Criminal law.
A headmaster is a leader of pedagogical team. And his prime duties is not an ability to use computers, but an ability to manage his or her team with pedagogical ethics.
We are uncomfortable for this incident. I, as a director of district's educational administration, would like to apologize to Microsoft for big fuss around this case. We would like to assure, that this problem was not created by our office.
Now everything depends on the position of the headmaster: to finish the case and go on with his main duties – getting the school ready for unified state exams.
