Children of war

In Ukrainian schools, the number of first-graders was limited

In recent years, Ukrainian schools have undergone significant changes. They introduced innovations in the curriculum (the so-called “New Ukrainian School”), due to the coronavirus and the war, students had to get used to distance learning, updated the menu and principles of schoolchildren’s nutrition. Also, now almost every school has a bomb shelter. Among the innovations of the Ministry of Education, which will be implemented from the new academic year, is the limitation of the number of students in classes.

From now on, no more than 24 children can study in the first classes. In senior classes, the maximum number of students should be no more than 30. Such requirements are established by the Law of Ukraine “On Comprehensive General Secondary Education”.

It is worth noting that the innovations apply only to those schools where education is carried out in face-to-face or mixed (alternating visits to the institution and online classes) form. In educational institutions, where the educational process is currently provided only remotely, there will be no restrictions on the maximum number of students in 2024-2025.

The Ministry of Education and Science believes that reducing the number of classes will allow teachers to work more productively with students and will contribute to improving the quality of education.

However, innovations entail other changes. For example, now classes will not be divided into groups for studying Ukrainian, English and some other subjects.

“The division of classes of general secondary education institutions into groups for studying individual subjects is carried out in the presence of a certain number of students (order of the Ministry of Education and Culture of February 20, 2002 No. 128). For example, to study the Ukrainian language, there must be more than 27 students in the class. Therefore, a class of 24 students are not divided into groups to study this subject (except for institutions with Bulgarian, Crimean Tatar, Polish, Slovak, Romanian and Hungarian languages),” explained Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

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