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An (un)official paper about the recent change in Estonian - Russian high schools - Giovanni

Giovanni — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:22:08 +03:00

Hello,

thanks for your comment and your suggestion: I just wanted to point out that the lines you red are coming from Irene Kaosaar, not from me or anyone else from cafebabel.com

Giovanni Angioni

An (un)official paper about the recent change in Estonian - Russian high schools - Gleb2

Gleb2 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:09:11 +03:00

You wrote:

According to recently introduced research results (Lauristin, Vihalemm, Kallas, Jakobson (2007)) ...The non-Estonian population’s satisfaction with the development of Estonia has been even higher than among Estonian population.

That is obviously a mistake (misinformation). The study is here (in Estonian)

http://www.rahvastikuminister.ee/up...

Look at table and diagram on page 16. The question is: "What is your perception of changes, which have taken place in recent years?"

Answers:

Estonians:

Positive 12%
Rather positive 45.5%

Non-Estonians:

Positive 4.6%
Rather positive 22.2%

That's it.

An (un)official paper about the recent change in Estonian - Russian high schools - Gleb2

Gleb2 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:45:29 +03:00

The whole system is a legacy of good old Soviet time. Then even state universities provided many courses in Russian . Now it is gone and also high schools are going to be "reformed".