Vladimir Filippov (politician)
| Vladimir Mikhailovich Filippov Владимир Михайлович Филиппов |
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In office September 1998 – March 2004 |
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15 April 1951 Uryupinsk, Stalingrad region, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian |
Vladimir Mikhailovich Filippov (Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Фили́ппов; born 15 April 1951) is the Rector of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Minister of Education of the Russian Federation in 1998–2004, Doctor in physical and mathematical sciences, professor and academician of the Russian Academy of Education.
He was born on 15 April 1951 in the town of Uryupinsk, Stalingrad Region (now the Volgograd Region). In 1968 he entered Patrice Lumumba University of Peoples' Friendship. In 1973, Filippov graduated the Faculty Science (major: mathematics) and started his course of postgraduate education. In 1975–1976 he served in the USSR armed forces.
After the military service, Filippov came back to the University where he worked as an assistant lecturer of the University Union of Higher Mathematics, Chairman of the University Union of young scholars, Head of the Department of Mathematical Analysis, Dean of the Faculty Science, since June 1993 has was the Rector of Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.
In 1980 he defended his PhD thesis and later worked in the Université Libre de Bruxelles(Belgium). In 1986 Filippov defended the doctor's thesis in the Mathematical Institute named after V. Steklov of the USSR Academy of Sciences, specialty – “Mathematic analysis”. A year later he obtained the scientific title “Professor of the department of Mathematic Analysis”.
In June 1993, Filippov was elected as the Rector of Peoples' Friendship University of Russia until 1998, when he was appointed as the Minister of education of the Russian Federation and held this post during the work of four RF Cabinets of ministers. In 1999 “Federal program of the development of Russian education for 2000–2004” was adopted by the Russian Government and signed into the RF Law. It envisaged annual allocation of substantial money from the state budget for the development of Russian education in addition to the existing financing.
Upon the initiative and under the guidance of Filippov active modernization of Russian education started. In January 2000, in the Moscow Kremlin, after a 12-year break, the All-Russia Congress of 5,000 workers of education was held. V. Putin took part in the Congress, which determined problems and challenges of the Russian education and main ways of its reforming. The Congress approved the National Doctrine of education in the RF for the period till 2005, which was later adopted by the RF Government.
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