Since the introduction of the New Ukrainian School, education has been undergoing improvement and reform. Additional adjustments were made by the introduction of martial law and regular or spontaneous power outages. The Ministry of Education and Science has described how Ukrainians will teach and learn in 2025. Find out all the details on Visit Ukraine.

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Recently, high school educators have been very concerned about the grading system in grades 1-7 (NUS). A petition to cancel the so-called ‘result groups’ and return to the previous grading system is currently active on the Facebook page of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. As of 30 December, the petition has 18,000 signatures. We will know whether the Ministry of Education and Science will consider the requirements in 2025. In the meantime, next year's education will be organised in accordance with the order ‘On Approval of the Procedure and Conditions for Obtaining General Secondary Education in Municipal General Secondary Education Institutions under Martial Law in Ukraine’ (effective from 1 September 2025). Read the details of the educational process in 2025 in the article.

Maximum return to full-time education

At the regional and national levels, online learning has been recognised as less effective, so students are being transferred to offline learning as much as possible. For some regions, this is a mixed format: for example, in Kharkiv, classes were set up in the subway, so children study offline twice a week and online the rest of the time. For a school to be able to teach full-time, a number of conditions must be met:

- a shelter must be built at the school (or within 500 metres of the school);

- The capacity of the shelter must be appropriate for the number of students;

- if the shelter is in another building, a free rental agreement must be concluded with the assistance of the local education department;

- if the school is located in Dnipro, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Chernihiv regions, a decision of the regional defence council or an order of the head of the regional military administration and a decision of the pedagogical council to switch to full-time/mixed learning are required.

Distance learning to undergo reforms

From 1 September 2025, the minimum number of students in a distance learning class will be 20. This list does not include:

- children in family education;

- children on external study programmes.

Please note! The state provides separate funding for individual forms of education.

The educational process in schools should be systematic and continuous, so the school should organise distance learning according to one of 3 principles:

- grades 1 to 9

- from 1 to 11 grades;

- from 5 to 11 grades;

- from 8 to 11 grades (lyceum).

If no school in the community can provide the necessary conditions (we are talking about rural and settlement territorial communities), education is possible if the occupancy requirements are not met.

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Education for IDPs

Starting from 1 September 2025, IDP children will study full-time in schools in the territories to which they have moved. At the moment, about 120,000 children live in one region and have their place of residence in another. Starting from the next academic year, such a precedent will be possible in the following cases

- the local school in the area where the pupil moved to has ceased to exist;

- there are no places for full-time education in the local school.

In this way, the Ministry of Education and Science plans to achieve the following results:

- Improving the educational level of students;

- creating opportunities for an individual approach to each student.

Students in the temporarily occupied territories whose remote classes have ceased to function can be transferred to another educational institution within their region (both by decision of their parents and by decision of the LEA). Also, special pedagogical patronage is being introduced for such students to ensure that the class schedule and form of education are flexible.

Read more about higher education reforms and the possible cancellation of part-time study here.

Education for children abroad

Ukrainian children living abroad will continue to study only the Ukrainian studies component (Ukrainian language and Ukrainian literature, history of Ukraine and geography of Ukraine) in schools - no full-fledged parallel studies will be organised for them. At the same time, some schools offer additional classes in other subjects for separate classes (at the request of parents).

The Ukrainian studies cycle is organised in such a way that there is no overlap with classes at a foreign school. Grades in other subjects will be recalculated from foreign certificates (a special scale has been developed for this purpose), which will reduce the workload on students by 4 times.

Read about the changes planned in Ukrainian education from 2027 on the Visit Ukraine portal.

NMT and state exams in 2025

In 2025, students in grades 4, 9 and 11 are exempt from taking the state final examination, according to the Law of Ukraine ‘On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on the State Final Examination and the Entrance Campaign 2025’ of 15 November 2024.

If 4th grade students take part in the second stage of the piloting of the State Standards Examination, these results will not affect the final assessment, as they are needed to develop methodological approaches.

The NMT will be held from 14 May to 25 July. There will be 4 subjects for the NMT: Ukrainian language, mathematics, history of Ukraine, and a 4th subject of choice (Ukrainian literature, geography, biology, chemistry, physics or a foreign language).

Allowances for teachers

It is planned to establish salary supplements for teachers:

- from 1 January 2025 - a supplement of UAH 1,000;

- from 1 September 2025 - a supplement of UAH 2000.

Just a reminder! Earlier we told you that Poland is expanding the conditions for Ukrainian schoolchildren who want to study their native culture.

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