The Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language, Taras Kremin, called to sign an open appeal to the Prime Minister of Ukraine regarding the preservation of foreign language training in Ukrainian literature for everyone.

The relevant appeal was published by the Office of the Education Ombudsman.

According to Kremin, the removal of Ukrainian literature as a mandatory educational component from entrance exams is one of the biggest threats to both educational reform and state humanitarian policy in general.

"It is known that it is impossible to master the Ukrainian language without studying Ukrainian literature. Moreover, Ukrainian literature, the high level of its teaching and the interest of schoolchildren, whose reading literacy is among the priorities of the international program for evaluating the educational achievements of PISA students, is one of the effective tools of national security and defense in the conditions of a hybrid war. That is why today it is extremely important to maintain a comprehensive external examination on the Ukrainian language and literature for admission to all specialties. We do not need such experiments, which can deal a significant blow to Ukrainian education and the humanitarian sphere as a whole," the language ombudsman emphasizes.

He also suggested "to develop test tasks of several levels of complexity from Ukrainian literature for entrants, depending on which majors they will enter: "humanitarian" or "technical"".

The text of the appeal was signed by representatives of higher education institutions, teachers, public figures and artists.