Ukraine is continuing to improve the legislative and regulatory framework for adult education and training, in particular through the development of the Draft Law on Adult Education and Training (Проєкт Закону про освіту дорослих). The main directions of the reform consist of the following elements:

• Harmonising vocational education legislation with adult education;
• Strengthening legislative and regulatory support for adult education and training;
• Promoting adult education under martial law to simplify the training of workers;

• Simplifying the recognition of learning outcomes obtained through non-formal and informal education in higher and professional pre-higher education.

   

2025

There have been no reforms in this area in 2025.

2024

There have been no reforms in this area in 2024.

2023

Reform of the legislative and regulatory framework for adult education and training

On 12 January 2023, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a Resolution ‘On adoption of the draft Law of Ukraine on Adult Education as a basis’ (Постанова Верховної Ради України ‘Про прийняття за основу проєкту Закону України про освіту дорослих’). The draft law includes the following provisions:

• Defining of the legal, organisational and economic principles of the functioning and development of the adult education system in Ukraine, as well as outlining of the conditions for effective cooperation of stakeholders to ensure the realisation of adults’ right to lifelong learning;

• A provision to recognise non-formal education within the formal education system;

• Changes of the set of adult education components, namely: additional personally oriented education and training; civic education; continuous professional development of employees, including postgraduate education; compensatory education; formative education, etc.;

• A suggestion to introduce the Register of Personal Electronic Portfolios, in particular for specialists in professions for which there is a need for additional regulation;

• Approaches to state financing of adult education, in particular for adults with special educational needs, principles of preferential lending and taxation of costs for the training of the adult population from other sources of funding, etc.