On January 9, Ukrinform held a press conference on the topic: "Ukrainian education 2013: results and forecasts." Experts spoke at the press conference – Liliya Hrynevych - head of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Science and Education; Stanislav Nikolayenko - head of the "Public Organization of Educators and Scientists of Ukraine", ex-Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine; Ihor Likarchuk - director of the non-governmental organization "Center for Testing Technologies and Monitoring the Quality of Education"; Pavlo Polyanskyi - chairman of the board of the NGO "Educational Monitoring Center"; Iryna Bekeshkina - Director of the Foundation "Democratic Initiatives named after Ilka Kucheriva"; Yehor Stadny - expert of the NGO "Center for the Study of Society"; Volodymyr Kovtunets is an expert of the Alliance "Program for the Promotion of External Testing in Ukraine (USET).

Experts in the field of education announced the TOP educational events of 2013

At the press conference, the TOP-10 positive and negative events in the education of Ukraine for the past year 2013 were announced.

In the first place in the "positive rating" was the manifestation of the civic position of Ukrainian students. The next stage of the rating was the start of work on the preparation of a new version of the Law of Ukraine on Education, preservation of the system of external independent assessment of educational achievements upon admission to higher education institutions.

The following events took the following positions in the so-called "positive rating": submission to the Verkhovna Rada of the draft law on higher education edited by academician Zgurovsky's group; the start of the first free online courses in the CIS on the basis of KNU named after Shevchenko; implementation of a joint pilot project of the "System capital management" group of employers and the Ministry of Education and Culture on the modernization of professional standards; the beginning of compulsory study of a second foreign language in the 5th grade; the results of the participation of Ukrainian students in the international comparative study "Timss-2011"; the successful performance of schoolchildren and students at the world subject Olympiads, as well as the breakthrough of Internetization of Ukraine.

According to the materials: Ukrinform