The scandalous order of the Ministry of Education and Science No. 850, which talks about the possible cancellation of distance education for IDP children, will be finalised to take into account the needs of students in this category
Order No. 850 ‘On Approval of the Procedure and Conditions for Obtaining General Secondary Education in Communal Institutions of General Secondary Education under Martial Law in Ukraine’, in fact, poses a threat to distance education, especially in the occupied territories and rural educational institutions.
A petition to cancel the adoption of Order No. 850 was created on the Cabinet of Ministers’ website, which garnered the necessary 25,000 votes in just two days. Representatives of teaching staff, parents of pupils, the All-Ukrainian Association of Local Self-Government Bodies ‘Association of Ukrainian Cities’ and other public organisations demanded in their petitions that MPs should not restrict children from the occupied territories and internally displaced persons in their access to education.
We would like to remind you that certain provisions of Order No. 850 of 13.06.2024 would cause:
Significant reduction of employees and destruction of the network of general secondary education institutions located in the frontline regions;
Would lead to the loss of access of children from the temporarily occupied territories to the Ukrainian education system, in particular, in connection with the transfer of students of higher education institutions to GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS at the place of their actual residence, there will be a gradual closure of GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS that were displaced and provided distance learning for students from the temporarily occupied territories;
Loss of ties with citizens who are in the temporarily occupied territories and abroad;
Partial liquidation of educational infrastructure in the future deoccupied territories.
MP Larisa Bilozir sent an appeal to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal with a request to reconsider this order.
The MES notes that the order has not been approved and has not entered into force yet.
According to the MP, the MEU is working out the order with the central executive