Ukraine Education Policy Note : Introducing the New Ukrainian School in a Fiscally Sustainable Manner

The education sector in Ukraine is in the middle of ambitious - and long overdue - reforms that hold great promise to fundamentally transform the sector. New laws have been passed for higher education (in 2014), for research and scientific activity...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Policy Note
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	EDUCATION POLICY EDUCATION SYSTEM REFORM EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATION SPENDING TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT E-TEXTBOOKS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/322641535692262866/Ukraine-Education-Policy-Note-Introducing-the-New-Ukrainian-School-in-a-Fiscally-Sustainable-Manner http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30411

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spelling	okr-10986-304112021-05-25T09:17:59Z Ukraine Education Policy Note : Introducing the New Ukrainian School in a Fiscally Sustainable Manner World Bank EDUCATION POLICY EDUCATION SYSTEM REFORM EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATION SPENDING TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT E-TEXTBOOKS The education sector in Ukraine is in the middle of ambitious - and long overdue - reforms that hold great promise to fundamentally transform the sector. New laws have been passed for higher education (in 2014), for research and scientific activity (in 2015), and, more recently, the framework law for the education sector, law on education (in 2017). Alongside the budget decentralization reform (2014) these laws represent a major shift towards devolving authority from central to local government and the expansion of decision-making autonomy by local authorities and education service providers (for example, schools and universities). Moreover, as part of these reforms, per student financing for schools was introduced in 2017, with the potential to incentivize local actors to use resources more efficiently. Taken together, these changes represent the most ambitious reform agenda for the education system since the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, the costliest feature of the general secondary education law is a promise to increase the starting salary of teachers to four times the minimum living wage by 2023. If not managed carefully, this increase threatens to put the sector on a fiscally unsustainable path which could undermine the broader reform agenda. This note highlights some areas of the reform agenda where more focus will be needed, and presents some options for how to implement the promised wage increase in a fiscally sustainable manner. 2018-09-11T20:59:32Z 2018-09-11T20:59:32Z 2018-08-01 Policy Note http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/322641535692262866/Ukraine-Education-Policy-Note-Introducing-the-New-Ukrainian-School-in-a-Fiscally-Sustainable-Manner http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30411 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Policy Notes Europe and Central Asia Ukraine
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description	The education sector in Ukraine is in the middle of ambitious - and long overdue - reforms that hold great promise to fundamentally transform the sector. New laws have been passed for higher education (in 2014), for research and scientific activity (in 2015), and, more recently, the framework law for the education sector, law on education (in 2017). Alongside the budget decentralization reform (2014) these laws represent a major shift towards devolving authority from central to local government and the expansion of decision-making autonomy by local authorities and education service providers (for example, schools and universities). Moreover, as part of these reforms, per student financing for schools was introduced in 2017, with the potential to incentivize local actors to use resources more efficiently. Taken together, these changes represent the most ambitious reform agenda for the education system since the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, the costliest feature of the general secondary education law is a promise to increase the starting salary of teachers to four times the minimum living wage by 2023. If not managed carefully, this increase threatens to put the sector on a fiscally unsustainable path which could undermine the broader reform agenda. This note highlights some areas of the reform agenda where more focus will be needed, and presents some options for how to implement the promised wage increase in a fiscally sustainable manner.
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title	Ukraine Education Policy Note : Introducing the New Ukrainian School in a Fiscally Sustainable Manner
title_short	Ukraine Education Policy Note : Introducing the New Ukrainian School in a Fiscally Sustainable Manner
title_full	Ukraine Education Policy Note : Introducing the New Ukrainian School in a Fiscally Sustainable Manner
title_fullStr	Ukraine Education Policy Note : Introducing the New Ukrainian School in a Fiscally Sustainable Manner
title_full_unstemmed	Ukraine Education Policy Note : Introducing the New Ukrainian School in a Fiscally Sustainable Manner
title_sort	ukraine education policy note : introducing the new ukrainian school in a fiscally sustainable manner
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url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/322641535692262866/Ukraine-Education-Policy-Note-Introducing-the-New-Ukrainian-School-in-a-Fiscally-Sustainable-Manner http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30411
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Ukraine Education Policy Note : Introducing the New Ukrainian School in a Fiscally Sustainable Manner

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