MES plans to create “boarding schools” for children from some regions: details

The Ministry of Education and Culture is planning to provide transportation for children from the frontline areas to “boarding schools” – institutions where there is shelter and where alternating face-to-face education can take place.

Every front-line region should have at least one boarding-type institution, Minister of Education and Science Oksen Lisovyi said.

Sessions during which children can live and study in such schools can last a week, two, three or more.

“We are talking about visiting face-to-face sessions for children from schools in which face-to-face education cannot be organized. It is very important to find regions where there are safe places. These can be sanatoriums, former rest camps for children, vocational education institutions that can be repurposed for this temporary solution during the war.

These should be objects of educational or recreational infrastructure that can accommodate children in a dormitory or boarding house, feed them, provide training and psychological support. – said Lisovyi.

“Boarding schools” will help children in cases where there are no other solutions to return them to full-time education. The MES is already negotiating with donors to finance this project.

“You can transport children, for example, from Zaporizhzhia to Kropyvnytskyi, hold two-week sessions for them there in shifts, with their own pedagogical teams. For example, the school leaves with teachers, and teachers-psychologists also work on site.

We are currently selecting a base to invest in. But this question is not very quick. God grant that we will have time to implement at least one such project by September.” said the minister.

We will remind you that the MES also introduced a new financing mechanism for the construction of shelters in schools through the DREAM system.

We previously explained which schools are eligible for funding and how to apply.