Students' workload to be reduced, but it won't help them get into universities; all bets are on private tutors

The Ministry of Education has finally sorted out the allowable workload for schoolchildren. Now, first graders will have no more than four lessons a day (kids need to get used to it!), and graduating 11th-graders—no more than seven lessons either. No point in overloading them there either. And breaks would do well to be lengthened: the possibility of making them last 20–30 minutes is under consideration, while for first graders a "dynamic pause" lasting 40 minutes has been provided for. In short, all…