“Education is an issue number one for our republic,” Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov declared at the event marking the International Teachers’ Day.

The event that brought together the best teachers from all over the republic was held at the Pyramid Convention Complex.

On behalf of the republic’s leadership Rustam Minnikhanov congratulated all those present as well as all the educators of the republic on Teachers’ Day.

The President reminded that over last 2-3 years it closely studied the world experience in education and the development of the modern school. As part of that research the Strategy of the educational development in Tatarstan was created and is already being implemented.

We realised that the main component in the educational process is the teacher, Rustam Minnikhanov said. It is the teacher who is the main driving force and we have to give them necessary tools to work while also ensuring their social well-being for them to work with confidence and competence, the Tatarstan President said.

“Today, we face big tasks, one of them being the creation of a new, modern school. There is no doubt that we’ll cope with it. I would like to express gratitude for your heavy work for it’s never easy to teach people,” Rustam Minnikhanov said.