GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION QUALITY ASSURANCE OF UKRAINE TOWARDS EUROPEAN STANDARDS
GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION QUALITY ASSURANCE OF UKRAINE TOWARDS EUROPEAN STANDARDS

Summary/Abstract: Integration of the Ukrainian education into the European Education Area under the conditions of the European choice of Ukraine is highlighted; in the context of the Ukrainian education integration into the European Education Area strategic reform tasks are outlined, i.e. to actualize the existing scientific and pedagogical potential, to implement the opportunities of the Ukrainian scholars and teachers for forecasting, programming, scientific and methodological support of cooperation with the EU priority areas in the education sector; to make strategic management decisions that will create a roadmap for the entry of the education system of Ukraine into the European Education Area; to reform the education system financing; to promote the implementation of the most up-to-date scientific approaches and educational technologies; to continue the democratization of the educational institutions’ life; to improve the quality of training for future school teachers and teachers of pedagogical universities; to promote and to develop international cooperation of national educational institutions, and to ensure conditions for educational mobility. It is determined that one of the priorities of integration of the education system and the general secondary education of Ukraine, in particular, to the European Educational Area, is to ensure its quality according to European standards. According to the Law on Education from September 5, 2017, general secondary education has three levels of education: primary education lasts four years (starts at 6 years); basic secondary education lasts five years; profile secondary education lasts three years. It is concluded that the achievement of the European quality of education in Ukraine will be a powerful factor in solving the economic, political and cultural problems of European integration of our country, the development of a prosperous and democratic society. Therefore, the problem of quality assurance of education needs to be given more attention in the process of development of the national education system.

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