Education and Science Minister Serhiy Shkarlet says nearly 22,000 Ukrainian teachers have moved abroad because of the war.
“Today, according to statistics, we are constantly updating it, there are almost 22 thousand teachers who have moved outside the territory of Ukraine,” Shkarlet said in an interview on the air of the national telethon on Thursday morning.
The minister also noted that today in Ukraine more than 10 million people are in the status of temporarily displaced people, of which about 3.5 million people are abroad.
“Approximately 25% of them are children of school age or students. Thus, we have 2.5 million students and schoolchildren who were forced to move,” he added.
Shkarlet said that in one way or another all the countries of the European Union help Ukrainian teachers, pupils and students, but he especially noted Greece, France, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Baltic countries, and Slovenia.
As a result of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, 197 children were killed, 351 children were injured, the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General reports.
“More than 548 children have suffered in Ukraine since February 24, 2022 as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. At the same time, 197 children died and more than 351 were injured of varying severity. According to the data received by juvenile prosecutors, children in the Donetsk region – 115, Kiev – 105, Kharkiv – 81, Chernihiv – 54, Mykolaiv – 40, Kherson – 38, Luhansk – 36, Zaporizhzhia – 23, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15,” the report said on Thursday morning.
Minister of Education and Science Serhiy Shkarlet says that when forming the state order for 2022, all construction, agricultural, high-tech and pedagogical specialties will be a priority.
“Today we are already working with the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Digital Transformation regarding the formation of a budget order for 2022. The focus will be on high-tech and post-war economic recovery,” Shkarlet said in an interview on Thursday morning’s national telethon.
According to the minister, the humanitarian block, highly competitive specialties: economics, social sciences, management, public administration, lawyers will not have a large share of state funds covered in the state budget.
At the same time, Shkarlet noted that builders, all agricultural, high-tech, pedagogical specialties will be a priority, including when applying to universities.
The Minister also stressed that the emphasis is on professional higher education.
AGRICULTURAL, CONSTRUCTION, HIGH-TECH, PEDAGOGICAL SPECIALTIES, PRIORITY, STATE ORDER
Map of internet coverings of ukrainian basic mobile operators in January 2022
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting in Kyiv with President of Poland Andrzej Duda, President of Latvia Egils Levits, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda and President of Estonia Alar Karis, who are visiting Ukraine.
“The heads of state held a meeting in the format of a working lunch,” the press service of the President of Ukraine reports.
After the talks are over, the presidents will talk to media representatives.
The German parliament has agreed on the supply of heavy military equipment to Ukraine, said Markus Faber, a member of the Bundestag from the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and a member of the parliamentary group on defense policy.
“Dear friends, Germany will now quickly supply heavy equipment to Ukraine. I am glad that we from the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag were able to convince our coalition partners of this,” Faber tweeted on Wednesday.
According to him, in terms of logistics and time, this task will not be easy, “but we are finally starting.”
“Ukrainians need our material assistance to protect their republic from a neighboring dictatorship. Like many other democracies around the world, we give them this,” Faber added.
