26 educational institutions are situated in Evenkia Autonomous Area. There are 12 elementary schools (521 schoolchildren), 4 main schools (589 schoolchildren), 9 secondary schools (2166 schoolchildren), 1 special (correcting) boarding school (73 schoolchildren). And also there are 28 pre-school educational institutes (1147 pupils), 2 evening schools (192 schoolchildren), 5 supplementary educational institutes (1468 children).

14 district schools have "the groups of prolong day", 11 schools have school boarding houses.

54 teachers of Evenkia Autonomous Area have State rewards: 6 teachers have the title of "Honored teacher of RF", 18 teachers have the title of "Honorable worker of education", 31 teachers received "The honorable Diploma of the Ministry of Education of RF".

The reorganization of the school educational system has been made during last time. The teaching of Evenki language is being introduced in the schools. It is planned to organize the special nomad schools for children who roam from place to place with their parents.

Evenkia Autonomous Area has two secondary-special education institutes - Medical college and Agricultural college (Tura).

Annually 120-140 boys and girls from Evenkia Autonomous Area enter the higher educational establishments. It is done within the bounds of special purpose contract preparation (hors concours admission). The students are taught in the higher educational establishments of Krasnoyarsk, Sent-Petersburg, Khabarovsk, Orenburg, Moscow, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk. 134 students entered the higher educational establishments in 2001 (on the base of hors concours admission). 97 students entered the free education, 17 - requiring payment education (the district Administration annually paid for the students' education).

Since 1999 the innovation educational methods are being put into practice in Evenkia Autonomous Area. The purpose of these methods is the overcoming of workers' crises in Evenkia with the help of organization of educational process on the territory of district. The supplementary professional education was organized on the base of the district educational-methodical center (G.V. Lukyanenko is the chairman). It gives the possibility to get training in 16 professions.

The tuition by correspondence on the distance in the higher educational establishments is being developed. It means that during the session teachers will go to the students. Such method gives the possibility of getting the higher education in the district. Within the bounds of such system the Evenkia Autonomous Area co-operates with Krasnoyarsk state pedagogical university (KSPU), Moscow state economic, statistic and information university. It is planned to establish relations with other higher educational establishments which will prepare necessary specialists for the district.

The next step of the district educational program development is the possibility of getting the higher education on the Evenkia territory. KSPU's branch was opened in Tura in 2000. The first faculty of this University branch was the faculty of pedagogy and method of primary education. It is planned to open the physics, math, foreign languages faculties. It is planned to introduce the "Evenki language" for the faculty of primary education.

The center of continuous education was organized on the base of Tura secondary school, educational-methodic center and KSPU branch. The main purpose of this center is the organization of continuous educational process which will lead to the getting of higher education or actual working profession by the schoolchildren.

Nowadays the main task of the educational development on the territory of Evenkia Autonomous Area is the educational moving to the distant district settlements. For the solving of this problem it is planned to organize the distant external-studies educational system.