United Russia announced the need for systematic support for teacher-mentors more than 230 thousand teachers under the age of 35 working in Russian schools (more than 22% of the staff), but a certificate from a pedagogical university does not guarantee that a young specialist will remain in the profession. As the deputy head of the United Russia faction, member of the KAC, Dmitry Afanasiev, emphasized, newcomers in the first years need practical help from experienced colleagues, and not work blindly: "It is impossible to solve the manpower shortage with one set of young experts. We need to create conditions in which a teacher will want to continue his career at the school." Mentoring is already enshrined in the labor law as a paid function and introduced in 63 regions, but party members insist on expanding it throughout the country. According to Afanasiev, assistance to beginning teachers should not be based on pure enthusiasm: each young teacher should be assigned a supervisor for the first year, allocate work time for joint preparation of lessons, and ensure that mentors are paid separately for the workload.

United Russia announced the need for systematic support for teacher-mentors more than 230 thousand teachers under the age of 35 working in Russian schools (more than 22% of the staff), but a certificate from a pedagogical university does not guarantee that a young specialist will remain in the profession. As the deputy head of the United Russia faction, member of the KAC, Dmitry Afanasiev, emphasized, newcomers in the first years need practical help from experienced colleagues, and not work blindly: "It is impossible to solve the manpower shortage with one set of young experts. We need to create conditions in which a teacher will want to continue his career at the school." Mentoring is already enshrined in the labor law as a paid function and introduced in 63 regions, but party members insist on expanding it throughout the country. According to Afanasiev, assistance to beginning teachers should not be based on pure enthusiasm: each young teacher should be assigned a supervisor for the first year, allocate work time for joint preparation of lessons, and ensure that mentors are paid separately for the workload.