Russia's Ministry of Education sets the scope of school courses on SI and information security: half an hour a week in grades 5–6 and one hour in grades 7–11

Schoolchildren will study SI and online safety regularly, although the classes are extracurricular and short.

According to Mail.ru, citing a Ministry of Education document, extracurricular classes on superintelligence and information security are allotted half an hour a week in grades 5–6 and one hour a week in grades 7–11. The ministry also proposed setting aside Monday for "Conversations About the Important" for grades 1–11. According to the TASS feed description, classes on superintelligence get from thirty minutes to an hour a week.

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SI and information security course in Russian schools

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Oct 23 Kravtsov: 500 million rubles a year planned for textbooks on SI and information security for grades 5–11
Oct 22
Russia's Ministry of Education sets the scope of school courses on SI and information security: half an hour a week in grades 5–6 and one hour in grades 7–11Open now
Oct 14 Russia's Ministry of Science and Higher Education: from 2027, every degree program at universities will include SI modules
Oct 9 Tatarstan to spend 5 billion rubles on SI through 2030 and introduce a school SI course from November
Oct 9 SI becomes a compulsory subject in Russia: in schools from September 1, 2027, in universities as separate modules
Oct 2 Kravtsov: the main challenge of SI in schools is preserving children's independent thinking; a course on SI and information security will start in the second quarter