The Ministry of Education and Science presented new approaches to the arrangement of educational spaces, laboratories and workshops in schools and vocational education institutions.
In Ukraine, there is a growing need for specialists in science, technology and mathematics, but statistics show that last year 4 out of the 5 most popular profiles among students were humanities (only 11.3% of high school students chose a mathematics profile). In rural communities, this imbalance is even deeper – in particular, 40.7% of students from villages study Ukrainian philology, while in cities, 23.9%. Schools often do not offer non-humanitarian profiles due to the difficulty of recruiting teachers for a small number of students and lack of equipment. According to the PISA 2022 international study of the quality of education, the gap between 15-year-old students from urban and rural areas is more than 4.5 years in mathematics and almost 4 years in science.
The Ministry of Education and Science proposes to create modernly equipped physics, chemistry, biology, geography, mathematics, and STEM laboratories. In 2025, it is planned to create more than 100 laboratories – reference educational spaces – in schools in different regions of Ukraine. The government has allocated UAH 499.4 million for this purpose.
The projects of the learning spaces were developed together with the Big City Lab team. They are based on the intersection of five principles: functionality, ergonomics, aesthetics, practicality and accessibility.
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