Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has noted the importance of ensuring adequate social protection of education workers and promised that teachers' salaries will be increasing annually.
“We must and we will do everything to ensure that our teachers are socially protected, so that the salary should grow from year to year. And this year will be no exception,” the head of state said speaking at the opening of the renovated specialized school No. 106 in Kyiv on September 1, the presidential press service reported.
In this context, the president stressed that the authorities would fulfill their duty to the employees of the education sector.”
According to the press service, during the president’s visit to school No. 106, Minister of Education and Science, Youth and Sports Dmytro Tabachnyk reported to Yanukovych about the increase in the number of first-graders in the new 2012/2013 school year.
“Last year, 404,000 first-graders went to 19,870 Ukrainian schools, this year this number has grown by 27,000 to 431,000 first graders, according to the monitoring of the Education Ministry,” Tabachnyk said.
The minister also noted that since the president set the task in June 2010 to create proper conditions for pre-school children, the Education Ministry has developed a new program and modern standards in this area.
“The most important thing is that 651 kindergartens will resume work in Ukraine,” Tabachnyk said.
According to him, a few thousand additional groups of children have been created in the existing kindergartens. “In general, the number of places for pre-school children has increased by 172,000,” the head of the Education Ministry said.
