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More than 600,000 students and 23,000 teachers went abroad - Scarlett

87 thousand schoolchildren joined the study in other regions of Ukraine as IDPs.

More than 600,000 students and 23,000 teachers went abroad - Scarlett
Serhiy Shkarlet
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As a result of the war, more than 23,000 teachers and more than 600,000 students left Ukraine. This was announced in an interview with LB.ua by Minister of Education and Science Serhiy Shkarlet.

"These are the ones that have been confirmed. But I think these data are not very accurate. I have talked to some principals and rectors who say that on average it is not identified where exactly 10-15% of pupils and students are,” the minister said.

At the same time, the Minister noted, the number of temporarily internally displaced children who joined the study from other areas reached almost 87 thousand. The largest number of such children - students of schools, general and secondary education - in the Lviv region: almost 24 thousand.

In total, 3.7 million students returned to school.

“For the eighth week in a row, the educational process has been going on under martial law. According to the education departments, as of April 25, all general and secondary education institutions in 14 regions are continuing the educational process in distance form. In three regions, either partially mixed or full-time study, in six regions a distance process was organized, in part - vacations, and in part - studies were stopped. In the Lviv region, about half of full-time education is carried out in educational institutions. About 12,600 general and secondary education institutions are operating, and almost 3.7 million students have returned to school,” the minister said.

According to Scarlett, distance learning has become a kind of salvation, which allows not to be tied to the squares, to the fullness of classrooms, but to ensure the maximum possible involvement of children in the educational process.

We have significantly improved and used our information resource, our platform "All-Ukrainian Online School", which contains lessons in all school subjects. Together with Google, we have created an All-Ukrainian online schedule - a child can join the average program from anywhere and participate in the educational process in full.

The educational project "Learning without Borders", launched by the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education, and leading Ukrainian TV channels, has started - daily video lessons on each of the topics from 5th to 11th grades. So today we are not tied to the square, but we are proud to be able to involve every child who wants and aspires, and every teacher in the educational process," said the Minister.

For children who do not have the opportunity to participate in the educational process, according to the Minister, provided the opportunity to pass the program later, to create an individual educational space, an individual trajectory for everyone.

“According to our recommendations, no child should be excluded from the educational process. Studying can be postponed only in time," the Minister summed up.

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