Ukraine loses children due to the lack of war plans. Why do parents take students out abroad

The last few months in Ukraine there has been an alarming trend: parents want to interrupt their children online as soon as possible and take them abroad. Vladimir Strashko, director of the Unicorn School Distance School, shows statistics indicating the actual collapse of the education system in Ukraine: approximately 27 of 30 students can leave the country forever.

Previously, parents sought to take out boys 10-11 grades before their majority, now children are taken out despite their age and gender. Among the 11th grade students, there are more and more those who no longer write a national multi -grade test (NMT) and will not join the Ukrainian ZNO. According to a screen, in some classes of such children up to 90%. The director assures that a significant increase in demand for Unicorn School services was observed in 2022.

At the beginning of 2023, people believed in the success of the counter -offensive of Ukraine and the rapid end of the war. The students expressed their desire to return to Ukraine, and those who remained postponed the decision to leave until the last. Those who have left a year or two, cease to receive Ukrainian education, and the motivation of students is simple: they decided to stay in other countries forever. They do not need Ukrainian education.

"It is not the story when parents direct them in the best higher education. They go anywhere, the main thing is not in Ukraine. If this trend is gaining momentum, there will The quality of education is another. People's Deputy Nina Yuzhanina also spoke about the alarming trend of children from Ukraine before the new academic year.

About 300,000 children have been taken out because Ukrainians do not receive clear signals from the authorities about further plans, especially the autumn-winter period and the country's military capabilities. Many are forced to sell the property and go mostly to Poland. The fear of Russia's offensive forced 6. 7 million Ukrainians to leave, about a third of them are children under 18 years of age.

They make up the educational core, says the deputy director of the Institute of Demography and Social Research named after M. V. Alexander Gladun. "Hardly all school students want to return, their parents think about foreign institutions and universities after adaptation. Optimistic scenario is a return of 50% of those who have left. Departure of people from Ukraine beats in science, business and other areas activity, " - explains the specialist.

Another important problem is that people live in Ukraine and do not register demographic events there. Most likely, children will study there by Russian standards, and the front line moves daily. "It should also be added that families are also returning to Ukraine, but are constantly preferred to stay in the country pensioners over 65 years. Only 6% of them went to Europe. This statistics indicates the aging of the nation and a huge load on the Pension Fund ", - the scientist states.

In addition to the military in Ukraine there are problems of educational nature. Those who have gone to study in other countries are excluded from Ukrainian schools and teach in special distance classes with the Ukrainian component. This educational program was approved in August 2023 to unload students who are abroad and unite their studies in two schools, explains the focus of the expert on education, founder of the All -Ukrainian Educational Company Setstud Alexander Kondratyuk.

The Ukrainian Studies Component involves the study of four disciplines: Ukrainian language and literature, history and protection of the country. Such a small selection of disciplines will not allow the student to successfully fold the NMT and join the Ukrainian ZNO. "In 2024, successful attempts to enter higher education decreased from mathematics. Tens of thousands of disqualified entrants - they were simply not accepted. says Kondratyuk.

According to the expert, the first thing to do is to objectively convey people information about NMT. The demonstration options from the Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment were simpler than in reality. In fact, children are thrown out of the Ukrainian education system, he added. Kondratyuk notes that in the first year of the Great War with Russia there was a desire to teenagers to enter universities related to work in the SBU and other power and military structures.

The desire was dictated by a splash of patriotism. "In August 2022, it was possible to draw parallels with the IT sector. It does not add positives to parents and "bell" during total mobilization. Parents are worried that their children will be kidnapped on the street of the Tax Code and taken to the front. In the near future, it is not planned to solve this problem, so many prefer to leave Ukraine, summarizes Kondratyuk.