Ivan Vakarchuk

Education and Science Minister of Ukraine Ivan Vakarchuk during the news conference in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, in Kyiv, on Thursday, June 4, 2009. During the news conference Ivan Vakarchuk said that Education and Science Ministry is about to introduce a system of obligatory and not obligatory subjects in high education institutions from September. “This scheme starts working from September”, he said. According to the words of Ivan Vakarchuk, the working group is formed in the Ministry. The working group elaborated some variants of obligatory and not obligatory subjects. “We will declare some subjects, which students can choose, there can be and 30 and 40 subjects – according to choice of students: – economic theory or anthropology ect. It will depend on a wish of students and the future, which they want for themselves”, explained the Minister. At the same time he underlined that introducing of system of choosing the subjects will be an autonomous right of education institutions. “Every university has its schools, which will give a possibility to teach chosen subjects at a high level, that is why it is a right of the education institutions to give the range of subjects to students”, said Ivan Vakarchuk. The Minister said that this policy is actively used in European education institutions. Photo UNIAN