Ukrainian graduating class students go abroad

Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Oksen Lisovyi about the departure of schoolchildren abroad, Photo: facebook.com/NAZKgov

The Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Oksen Lisovyi, expressed his concern that many children, especially boys, from the 10th-11th grades go abroad.

This was stated by the minister on October 11 during the hour of questions to the government in the Verkhovna Rada.

«We observe how many children, especially boys, go abroad in grades 10-11. We are trying to motivate them to stay in Ukraine in various ways,» said Lisovyi.

He emphasized that the Ministry of Education should offer graduates quality professional, pre-university and higher education in order to encourage them to stay in the country.

According to Lisovyi, Western education is partially mythologized, and often the universities that Ukrainian children go to are no better than domestic regional educational institutions.

In addition, according to the minister, by the end of the year it is planned to launch the Implementation Agency for the implementation of the school reform «New Ukrainian School». Currently, the commissions are reviewing educational programs, and in the future this agency will implement the adopted reforms.

Previously, NikVesti reported that only one school from Mykolaiv — Lyceum №38 named after Volodymyr Dmytrovych Chaika, which was in 193rd place, made it to the rating of the TOP-200 schools of Ukraine according to the results of the National Multi-Subject Test (NMT) of 2024.

What about children's education in Mykolaiv?

Mykolaiv schoolchildren have been studying online since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. Although the government, with the help of donors and the state, is actively setting up shelters in educational institutions, which sometimes causes indignation among the townspeople.

The refusal of children to go to school is a guarantee of their personal safety, because Mykolaiv is still in the zone of possible ballistic damage from the Russian military, says Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych. At the same time, he emphasizes the importance of preparing shelters and resuming education in schools when the Armed Forces move the front line.

Previously, the head of Mykolaiv RMA Vitalii Kim explained why schools in Mykolaiv still work online: educational institutions are targets for the Russian army, since at the beginning of a full-scale war, they usually housed military personnel.

It is worth noting that earlier in response to an information request by NikVesti regarding the criteria that educational institutions of Mykolaiv must meet in order to resume full-time work in the 2023-2024 academic year, the city's education department reported: schools will work in accordance with the recommendations of the State Emergency Situations and Sanitary Regulations, approved by the Ministry of Health. The first is the availability of shelter, and the second is drinking water at school.

In the next few years, the authorities plan to equip 54 shelters in kindergartens, schools and lyceums in Mykolaiv.

In general, the outflow of students was recorded in the schools of Mykolaiv this year. Compared to the last academic year, the number of students decreased by 3,300.

Lithuania plans to build a shelter school in the Mykolaiv region by the end of 2024. Similar underground institutions should appear in 5 regions of Ukraine.

As of February 2024, shelters were installed in 31% of schools in Mykolaiv. There are 21 institutions of general secondary education: 10 lyceums and 11 gymnasiums.

It should be noted that the educational portal Education.ua formed a new rating of schools in the Mykolaiv region based on the results of the national multi-subject test of 2024. 199 schools of the region got into it.