Twelve publishers have been fined a total of UAH 1.896 million for violating the terms of delivery of textbooks to general secondary education institutions in 2025, according to the Institute for the Modernisation of Education Content of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
According to the Institute’s response to a request from the agency ‘Interfax-Ukraine’, twelve publishers violated the deadlines for delivering textbooks to general secondary education institutions in 2025.
In this regard, these publishers have been fined for violating the terms of the contract, in particular: Abetka LLC must pay a fine of 15,063 hryvnias; Alaton Publishing House LLC – 323,987 hryvnias; Aston LLC – UAH 142,505; Atlant Publishing House LLC – UAH 140; Bukrek MPP – UAH 2,189; Genesis LLC – UAH 684,832; TO ‘Gymnasium’ LLC – 141,936 UAH; ‘Methodika Publishing’ LLC – 528 UAH; ‘Educational Book – Bohdan’ Publishing House LLC – 7,202 UAH; ‘UOVC ’ORION” LLC – 561,157 UAH; Rannok Publishing House LLC – 4,916 UAH; Shkolyar Educational and Publishing Centre LLC – 12,455 UAH.
As reported, on 5 September 2025, the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Oksen Lisovyi, stated that all planned textbooks would be accepted by schools by 15 September. However, as of 15 September, more than 10% of the planned textbooks had still not been delivered to schools.
On 18 September 2025, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Education, Science and Innovation, as in the previous year, recognised the work of the Ministry of Education in providing schools with textbooks as unsatisfactory and acknowledged that the new mechanism for delivering textbooks needed urgent refinement.
On 25 September 2025, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Nadiya Kuzmychova announced that publishers who failed to deliver textbooks to schools on time would pay millions in penalties. She also expressed hope that the issue of textbook delivery would be resolved by the end of September.
On 14 November 2025, according to data from the dashboard of the Ministry of Education’s Institute of Educational Analytics, 100% of the planned textbooks had been delivered to schools.
At the end of December 2025, the Ministry of Education announced that in 2026 Ukraine would switch to a two-year cycle for the creation of textbooks and would continue to implement a model of delivering textbooks from publishers directly to schools.
According to Serbian Economist, the Serbian Ministry of Education has announced the financing of educational materials for migrant schoolchildren, including the translation and adaptation of materials into Ukrainian, as the language barrier remains one of the key challenges in integrating children into the education system.
Education Minister Dejan Vuk Stankovic noted that more than 5,500 migrant and asylum-seeking students have consistently passed through the Serbian education system. According to him, the ministry continues to support schools where migrant children study: mentors and external consultants are involved, and teaching materials are translated into the students’ native languages, currently Ukrainian and Arabic.
Stankovic reported that as part of this work, training events were held for more than 4,000 educators, teachers, principals, and support specialists, and more than 70 schools received support through grants. In addition, more than 3,000 individual support plans have been prepared and more than 10,000 additional classes have been held; support measures also included the distribution of books, textbooks, and school supplies.
The ministry also noted that the work on translating materials and supporting schools is being carried out with the participation of international partners. However, the amount of expenditure and the number of textbooks printed or materials translated into Ukrainian were not disclosed in the ministry’s public statements.
