Education as part of national security

2018 should see the implementation of real reforms in public schools get underway. Starting this upcoming year, we will be developing the new standards of the New Ukrainian School, standards under which all children who enter first class will study. This will mark the transition from schooling that stuffs children with theoretical information to an education that teaches children the kinds of skills that they need in the 21^st century. All 22,000 of the country’s pedagogues will have to undergo professional development courses. Today, the Ministry is working on the concept of this new teachers’ education because new schools can only become a reality through new teachers.