Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said that Ukrainian schools will be re-equipped and modernized in order to provide a good education to schoolchildren.
"We all want our children to receive a good education, and this will be so… I know that much has to be done to make it happen. We need to re-equip our schools and gymnasiums, and everything must be done so that children have modern classrooms. We need to computerize our schools. And we all will do this with our own hands and with our own minds," he said at celebratory events to mark Knowledge Day and the start of the new academic year at School No. 16 with enhanced learning of English in Kyiv on Wednesday.
"I assess the state of our education as difficult. I think a lot of time has been lost in our country since its independence. And, of course, the quality of education leaves much to be desired," Yanukovych said.
He said that he had presented a computer classroom as a gift to the school.
When asked by reporters what his favorite subject was at school, Yanukovych said he loved sports above all. Reporters also asked him whether he was a hooligan at school or behaved well.
"I behaved in various ways," he said.
Education and Science Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk and First Deputy Head of Kyiv City State Administration Oleksandr Popov also participated in the events.
