«In the near future»: the mayor of Mykolaiv announced the launch of face-to-face education in schools in remote areas

A classroom in one of Mykolaiv schools, archival photo «NikVesti»

In Mykolaiv, they promise to resume face-to-face education in some schools and kindergartens in remote neighborhoods of the city in the near future. In particular, we are talking about such microdistricts as Velyka Korenykha, Ternivka and Matviivka.

Oleksandr Sienkevych reported this in the comment NikVesti.

The mayor noted that the preparation work is currently underway and is partially financed both from the city budget and with the help of partners.

«In the near future, we plan to open some schools and kindergartens in remote areas. The work is being carried out, both with the help of partners and with the city budget,» Oleksandr Sienkevych said.

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At the same time, he explained that he cannot name specific institutions and specify when education will be resumed, citing risks related to the security situation in the city.

Shelter in Mykolaiv schools

We will remind that during 2025-2027 Mykolaiv City Council plans to allocate 245 million 485 thousand hryvnias for arranging shelters in educational institutions.

It should be noted that today in Mykolaiv the educational process includes 2,115 students who study face-to-face, 17,172 students in a mixed form, and 18,527 — remotely. In addition, 372 students receive their education individually.

As previously written by NikVesti, there are 31 secondary education institutions in Mykolaiv in full-time/mixed format. Another 11 educational institutions plan to work part-time/mixed after the completion of repair work in shelters and buildings.

On the other hand, only 22 of 73 preschool educational institutions are functioning in Mykolaiv today, in which 5,046 children study. They have already finished repairing the shelter in another kindergarten, it should be operational in the near future. Work continues in another 14 kindergartens.

We will remind that the Mykolaiv City Council is going to allocate 16.2 billion hryvnias for the implementation of the «Education» program for 2025-2027, 10.3 billion are planned to be allocated from the city budget. The amount of funding for the program is twice the previous budget for education in 2022-2024, which amounted to 8.6 billion hryvnias.

As of November 13, 31 basic shelters were repaired in Mykolaiv secondary education institutions. Currently, repair works are ongoing in 13 secondary education institutions. Also, in the city, repairs were completed in another gymnasium shelter in the Zavodskyi district.