Education in the USSR

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  • Literacy rate in Russia 32%

  • Unified labour school

    they provided free polytechnic education to all children aged 8 to 17

  • Komsomol established

    Age of members 16-28 and members had a reputation for hooliganism and drunkenness as well as promiscuity

  • Education reforms

    • Banned religious instruction in schools
    • Co-education
    • Abolishment of corporal punishment and exams as well as homework
    • Free breakfasts and free medical examinations to children who attended school
    • Church buildings to be converted into schools
    • Education compulsory
    • Secondary school designed to be vocational. Gov proposed creation of factory schools or professional schools where students could spend half of their day in a factory and the other half at school

  • Literacy rate in Red Army

    50%

  • Decree on Illiteracy

    Obliged people to read and write, as well as giving the gov the right to conscript people who were literate to teach others

  • Literacy rate in the Red Army

    86%

  • Young pioneers youth group established

    Members aged 10-15

  • Fees for primary schools abolished

    This causes the nº of kids getting an education to increase by 10%

  • Red Army fully literate