10:35 01.11.2017

Ukrainian education minister meets with Venice Commission experts

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Ukrainian education minister meets with Venice Commission experts

Representatives of the Ukrainian Education and Science Ministry headed by Minister Lilia Hrynevych have answered the questions of Venice Commission experts regarding different approaches to teaching children of different national minorities, as well as terms and instruments for implementing the language clause of the Ukrainian education law, the ministry's press service reported on October 31.

Venice Commission experts were told that Ukraine would use different approaches to the study of the Ukrainian language by national minorities.

"You know, there's a joke about how a hare, a bird and a turtle were given the task to run a certain distance for the same time. It's clear from this example that a unified approach for everyone is the wrong path. Our goal is to bring all Ukrainian children to a certain level of knowledge of the Ukrainian language at the stage of the end of general secondary education, taking into account the needs of a particular group," Hrynevych said.

She said that education in schools of each of the minorities had its own needs in order to get the respective quality.

"Polish and Bulgarian languages belong to the Slavic group, so one approach is needed here. Hungarian and Romanian are the languages of the other group, and the approach here should be different," reads the report.

Hrynevych also noted that the ministry was now developing new textbooks, programs and courses for raising the skills of teachers in schools with the language of instruction of national minorities.

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