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Responsible bodies 

Responsible bodies

The main institutions responsible for ensuring the quality of adult education are:

• The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MESU), which develops and implements education policy, including that relating to adult education. The MESU sets standards, defines qualification requirements, and monitors and evaluates the quality of education programmes.

The quality of education in Ukraine depends on the organisation, support and delivery of the learning process. This ensures that learners receive an education that meets legal standards or the terms of an education contract.

Approaches to quality assurance in Ukraine cover all levels of education. These include early childhood, general secondary, vocational, professional pre-higher, higher and adult education. The system combines state supervision, internal quality assurance and external evaluation. 

Higher education in Ukraine is a combination of systematised knowledge, skills and practical abilities, ways of thinking, professional, ideological and societal qualities, moral and ethical values, and other competences acquired in a higher education institution (scientific institution). According to the Law on Higher Education (Закон України ‘Про вищу освіту’), this level of education is ob

During the analysed period, Ukraine reformed the legislative and regulatory framework for adult education and training, which consisted of the following elements: legislative harmonisation of vocational education with adult education; legislative and regulatory support for adult education and training; promotion of adult education under martial law to simplify the training of workers; simplifying the procedure for recognising learning outcomes obtained through non-formal and/or informal education in higher and professional pre-higher education.

The reform of higher education in Ukraine in 2022-2024 aims to improve the quality of educational services, as well as to integrate into the European Education Area and adapt educational system to modern challenges, in particular under martial law. It includes improving the efficiency and quality of higher education providers; legislative and regulatory functioning and support of the higher education system under martial law; bringing the legal framework of higher education in line with EU standards.

The reform of vocational education and training (VET) began with the declaration of Ukraine's independence.

After Ukraine chose the European integration vector of development, an important step was the launch of the New Ukrainian School (NUS) reform.

Reforming the early childhood education and care (ECEC) system in Ukraine is an integral part of the overall strategy for developing national education, aimed at creating high-quality conditions for the comprehensive development of children from an early age.