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400 thousand Ukrainian schoolchildren are now abroad, - Lisovyi

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Currently, there are about one million Ukrainian youth abroad, including 400,000 schoolchildren.

This was stated by the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Oksen Lisovyi, Censor.NET reports with reference to Ukrinform.

"According to the statistics that we have, 7 million Ukrainians are abroad. A million of them are youth and 400 thousand of them are children in schools. Now we have a huge risk of losing these people. People are the greatest value for Ukraine. We are aware that it is for the struggle for the return of these people that a certain state policy should be formed," the minister said.

Lisovyi noted that the legislation of the countries where families left Ukraine provides for the integration of foreigners into their educational systems. Therefore, according to him, there is a problem of double workload for children, many continue their education in both Ukrainian and European schools. The Head of the Ministry of Education and Science noted that due to this workload, families may prefer to study in a European educational institution. The minister noted that the department is implementing a number of measures aimed at relieving schoolchildren and maintaining relations with Ukraine.

"First of all, it is to facilitate the enrollment of those universal disciplines that are in European schools. We can count the results in all subjects studied in European schools, except for the Ukrainian language, Ukrainian literature and history of Ukraine. Secondly, we are creating special distance classes (separate distance schools are currently being created), where only Ukrainian component (Ukrainian language, literature, history of Ukraine - ed.) are studied. ", - said the head of the Ministry of Education and Science.