Cold classrooms force Ukraine to extend winter break, shift to distance learning amid energy crisis
Schools may be closed or online until February as blackouts and heating failures continue.
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Kharkiv digs in: Over 40 underground schools being built as Russia keeps bombing
Builders are working in shifts and often in blackout conditions to complete dozens of underground schools, with some expected to open by year’s end.
Sumy opens first underground school as Ukraine builds 170 safe education facilities
Hundreds of students in Sumy have returned to in-person classes in the city's first underground school, where they can study protected from shelling that has become routine in the oblast
Russia is buying African loyalty with trains and schools, Ukrainian intelligence says
Moscow’s agenda in Burkina Faso, Ghana, South Africa, and Egypt blends technical aid with long-term loyalty schemes.
Ukraine needs $14 billion to rebuild educational infrastructure
Every seventh educational institution in Ukraine has been destroyed or damaged in the Russian ongoing war, necessitating billions in reconstruction funds.
World Bank to finance Ukrainian education for $ 415 million
Ukraine's education sector is set to receive a $415 mn boost from the World Bank, with $200 mn potentially available by the end of 2024, for improving teaching and learning conditions.
Zaporizhzhia underground school protects against Russian missiles, nuclear strike
Schooling when Russia is a neighbor looks like this
German state to introduce Ukrainian as second foreign language at schools
The initiative by the Hessen federal state is aimed at preserving Ukrainian identity and culture and also supports the education of approximately 20,000 Ukrainian students who fled to Hessen due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Spring 2024 festival in Sweden promotes Ukraine-Europe cultural unity, honors fallen artists killed in Russia’s war
The festival "Ukrainian Spring 2024" kicked off in Stockholm, bringing together a series of 12 cultural events to pay tribute to Ukrainian artists who lost their lives on the front lines battling Russian invaders.
Lithuania to allocate €400 thousand for the purchase of metal detectors for Ukrainian schools
The Lithuanian government is ready to provide €400,000 to support the Ukrainian Education Security Service's project to equip schools with metal detectors.
Kyiv Oblast sees 198 war-damaged schools and kindergartens restored
In Kyiv Oblast 198/244 educational institutions damaged or destroyed during Russia's full-blown war have been restored, according to the regional authorities.
Russian occupiers include history propaganda lessons in school curriculum in Luhansk Oblast
In schools of the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk Oblast, invaders have introduced additional lessons on "Russian History…
Ombudsman: Russia destroyed over 220 libraries in Ukraine
Since February 2022, Russian troops have destroyed over 220 libraries in Ukraine and damaged 400 library facilities, Ukrainian…
Two Ukrainian teachers shortlisted for Global Teacher Prize 2023
Ukrainians are among top 50 best teachers in the world.
UK intel: Russia uses education as propaganda in occupied territories of Ukraine, issuing pro-Kremlin history textbooks
“On 15 August 2023, First Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration Sergey Kiriyenko traveled to Donetsk in…
New technological university aims to shift Ukraine’s IT from outsourcing to local product
The presentation of the university took place on December 7 in Kyiv's Parkovyi Congress and Exhibition center. According…
Europe needs graduate programs on information war – Estonian media veteran
Rebane, who worked for 20 years in Estonian television both at the end of the Soviet period and…
Protests as plagiarist, Yanukovych crony appointed Ukrainian education minister
The epoch of Zelenskyy’s presidency and his single majority in the Parliament has been marked by turbulence in…
Education reforms lead to newer, better, regional schools
700 children from 12 neighboring villages study at the Solone school. Last year, the building got a much-needed…
Ukraine and Hungary both claim victory in Ukrainian education language argument
Ukraine wanted to receive the expert conclusion of the Venice Commission first of all to neutralize the political…