The gap between the prices of the child's stay in the state and private preschool institutions has decreased markedly. Today it differs five times, and as early as 2014. It was seven o'clock. However, private kindergartens have not become more accessible - the content in municipal. These are the data of the research of the Institute of Education of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics", based on a survey of 1849 parents, whose children visit both state and private institutions.
Compared to 2015. "The monthly fee in state kindergartens increased by 16.5%, and in private fell by 9.5%," Izvestia was told in the Higher School of Economics. A significant difference in cost is due not to the best or worst quality of services, and different conditions for the functioning of public and private kindergartens - unequal access to budgetary resources, high rental costs in the private sector of pre-school education.
Today, the gap in value is even higher than the established HSE. For example, the average price for a stay in the Moscow Municipal Garden is 3 - 5 thousand. rub. , And in the private - 45 thousand. rub. , The director of the Center for the Economics of Continuing Education of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Doctor of Economics Tatyana Klyachko clarified..
The increase in the cost of public kindergarten services "is connected with the overall economic situation," explained the deputy director of the Institute of Sectoral Management of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences Elena Kosareva. And she added that the state theoretically can appoint any price for the services of kindergartens, because "there is still no competition with private institutions".
Commercial kindergartens occupy only 5% of the market, noted Tatiana Klyachko. And to give a child there, according to RANHiGS, only 1% of Russians can afford it.
Often parents give their children to expensive institutions for a long time and for some reason - while waiting for a place in the municipal, as working mothers simply have nowhere to put the children.
Fathers and mothers try to reduce the amounts that are surrendered year after year on a "voluntary" basis, experts at the Higher School of Economics. Their decline in the municipal sector of pre-school education was 6% (compared to 2015), in the private sector - 10%.
In state kindergartens, fees are most often spent on the purchase of books or toys (23%), gifts for educators (15%), repair of premises, equipment for sports facilities (14%), kindergarten (7%). And private money collected goes to gifts for educators (15%) and purchase of books or toys (8%).
According to the RASHiGS data, 27.5% of Russians give their children to gardens at the age of three, 21.7% - when the child turns two years old, and 16% do not give up at all.