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May 2008. Kyiv, Ukraine - In September 2000 at Millennium Summit in New-York Ukraine signed the
“Millennium Declaration”.
When signing the Declaration Ukraine took upon the responsibility to achieve Millennium
Development Goals in the sphere of development by 2015 in six different
directions: poverty reduction, providing of life-long quality education,
sustainable environmental development, improvement of maternal health and
children mortality reduction, fighting HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis and promotion
of gender equality
Millennium
Development Goals for Ukraine
are 6 goals and 13 tasks for long-term perspective, adapted taking into account
the peculiarities of our country’s national development. In order to achieve
these goals and desired level of development, such economics policy needs to be
integrated that would improve the welfare of all Ukrainian people.
Thus, increasing access and quality of Ukrainian education has to become the priority of state policy in Ukraine. The
issues connected with this question have become a topic for discussion during
press-club meeting conducted by UN Office in Ukraine in the building of National
Journalist Union of Ukraine.
The
participants of the meeting made a conclusion that in leading countries investment
into so called human capital is considered to be the most beneficial, and the
perspectives of economical and social growth are fairly connected with quality
of education.
Those
countries and societies that take care about future actively invest money and
efforts into education and studies, try to always be a step ahead of the time
because in modern world knowledge and technologies become outdated extremely rapidly.
According to experts’ evaluation today the actuality of knowledge obtained by a
person every year reduces by a quarter and the world is developing faster and
faster.
In order to provide access to quality life-long education for each citizen, Ukraine in the framework of Millennium development Goals committed to completing the following tasks by 2015:
Increase
the level of educations spread
The existing network of educational establishments guarantees the constitutional right for each citizen to receive free and quality education.
In the
period since 2001 till 2006 the amount of people who receive education on all
levels, increase qualification and go through preparation has increased.
At the beginning of 2007 20,4 thousands of educations institutions
existed on the territory of Ukraine,
including 14,0 thousand – in rural localities (16.8% from overall quantity)
that were attended by 4.93 mln of students and 17.2 millions of pupils. In
academic year 2006/2007 387 thousand of first-graders started their studies
which is 5 thousand less than in previous year and 211.5 thousands less than in
2001.
Increase the
quality of education
Quality of education is mostly measured by knowledge
in the sphere of information technologies. The special attention is granted to
computerization of the learning process. Overall the equipment of educational
establishments of I-III levels of accreditation by a computer classroom in the
country has increased from 54% in 2004 to 73% in 2006, 65% of schools were
equipped with a computer classroom, 40% of schools were connected to Internet
(in 2005 there were only 15%).
The priority
direction in development of higher education in Ukraine is integration in world and
European educational world. Accession of Ukraine
in 2005 to Bologna process caused important
changes in the system of higher educational establishments in Ukraine.
As for the
accessibility of higher education than, maybe, the problem could be solved by
external independent testing. Already this year the entrance to educational
establishments will be implemented based upon the results of testing on equal
conditions for all.
According to the assessment of Ministry of Education
of Ukraine
today the network of higher educational establishments needs further changes.
For instance, the network of higher educational establishments in Ukraine for
46 million of people counts up to 904 institutions of all levels of
accreditation and forms of property, while in developed countries with this
population number their quantity doesn’t exceed a hundred.
The time has come to revise the network, the criteria
of which has to be the scientific component, to provide the accordance of the
network of higher educational establishments to the needs of economy and
society.
For more information, please contact
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23.05.08
