Optima School has received permission to conduct educational activities in Poland and will start teaching high school students (grades 10-11) at the beginning of the school year in September, Optima School director Olga Bilodid said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine.
“The Polish school will be enrolling high school students. It will start at the beginning of the school year. We have already realized what we dreamed of last year, and we intend to move to other EU countries,” Bilodid said.
Optima School founder Roberts Weishla noted that Optima will share its experience with other countries, positioning itself not only as an international school with universal content, but also creating local content that meets local curricula.
According to him, Optima has the capacity to serve up to 500 thousand students at a time.
Optima School was established and licensed in 2015. The school currently has 20 thousand students.
Optima School is planning to open online and offline education hubs in Ukraine and abroad, its founder Roberts Weishla said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Thursday.
“Now our goal is to open hubs of mixed offline and online education in Ukraine and not only in Ukraine, where children will be able to study not only remotely but also in person. Additional classes, clubs, etc. will be introduced there to make it interesting,” said Vaischla.
He noted that Optima planned to open an offline learning space last year by building Ukraine’s first blended learning school. However, according to him, a legal dispute over the land plot on which the school was planned to be built is ongoing.
“The school purchased a plot of land for construction, and now there is a court case going on. And we don’t know what will happen to this project. As a citizen of another country, I don’t really understand the arguments that the government agencies used to suspend our work,” Vaisla added.
For her part, Optima School director Olga Bilodid said that the school will open an educational hub in Kyiv.
“It may not be an Optima space, and it will be much smaller, but the idea will be realized, and such a space will start in Kyiv,” said Bilodid.
According to her, the hubs will offer courses aimed at the practical component.
“If it is language or literature, there will be classes in journalism and public speaking, if it is chemistry and physics, there will be laboratories. If it is, for example, a foreign language, it will be discussion clubs. That is, we want to give our children more practice,” explained Bilodid.
Optima School was established and licensed in 2015. The school currently has 20 thousand students.
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