Which schools and universities violated the language law in 2022? Report of the language ombudsman
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Language ombudsman Taras Kremin believes that Ukraine has made significant progress towards the state language under martial law. In particular, in 2022, the ombudsman received 25% fewer complaints about violations of the language law in the field of education. This is stated in the third annual report of the Commissioner for the protection of the state language, in which he analyzed the observance of the language law in education, culture, science and other fields “Ukrainian education in 2022 had great achievements related to the powerful impulse of “self-Ukrainization” of society , as well as significant problems and losses caused by the war,” the Commissioner’s secretariat says. Read also: “I want to thank the students”: the language ombudsman reacted to the language scandal at the Irpin University Photo: sezerozger/Depositphotos Schools The ombudsman received 117 appeals from citizens regarding violations of the functioning of the state language in the field of education – this is 25% less than in 2021. Last year, 17 checks on the use of the state language were conducted. Problems arose not only with the Russian language of instruction, but also with Hungarian. In particular, the Commissioner checked the use of the Ukrainian language in 6 institutions of general secondary education, as well as in the Department of Education of the Berehiv District State Administration. Violations of Article 21 of the Law (use of a non-state language in the educational process) were found in the following institutions: Specialized comprehensive school No. 1 named after O.V. Suvorov of the I-III grades with in-depth study of the English language in the city of Izmail, Izmail district, Odesa region; Gymnasium No. 267 of Kyiv; Communal institution “Lyceum of Information Technologies” of the Kamian City Council; Communal educational institution “Secondary school No. 132” of the city of Dnipro. Also, comprehensive school No. 3 of the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odesa region, violated Article 13 (regarding the language of record keeping). In the Berehiv District of the Transcarpathian Region, 37 schools did not form a single class with instruction in the state language. And in the Vynogradivsk general education school of I-III degrees No. 3 named after Zygmond Perena of the Vinogradivsk city council of the Zakarpattia region, all subjects are taught according to the so-called “bilingual principle”. Contrary to the law, subjects are taught simultaneously in two languages: 70% in Hungarian, 30% in Ukrainian. “The teaching of all educational subjects in the Hungarian language alongside the state language does not comply with the requirements of the law and needs to be regulated,” the ombudsman emphasizes. At the same time, a feature of 2022 can be considered a drastic reduction in the number of institutions, classes and students studying the Russian language. “Since the tendency to reject the use of the language of the terrorist state has reached a nationwide scale, on April 16, the Commissioner proposed to withdraw the subject “Russian language” from school studies and replace it with other subjects, beginning with the new academic year. This initiative was welcomed by all participants in the educational process “, the report says. The number of students studying the Russian language in secondary schools decreased by more than 99%. In September 2021, there were 454.8 thousand such children, and as of September 1, 2022 – about 4 thousand (0.8% from the previous school year). “This process took place in a completely natural way and was not related to a change in the legal framework or administrative pressure. The main catalyst for the rapid de-Russification of general secondary education was war crimes and the genocidal policy of the Russian Federation directed against the Ukrainian people,” says the ombudsman. . Read also: How to correctly file a complaint against a violator of the law on language? The ombudsman of universities explains In 2022, the Commissioner received 44 appeals regarding violations of the language law at universities (this is about 40% of all appeals that related to the field of education). The largest number of appeals regarding the activities of ZVO and ZFPVO came from Kharkiv (16), Kyiv (10), Odesa (5). In some universities, teachers conducted pairs or used materials in a non-state language. In particular, we are talking about the following institutions: National University “Odesa Maritime Academy”; P.L. Shupyk National University of Health Care of Ukraine; Kyiv Professional College of Communication; Academician Yury Bugai International Scientific and Technical University. A fine of UAH 3,400 was issued to a teacher of the National Aviation University in Kyiv, and a warning was issued to a teacher of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and the director of Children’s and Youth Sports School No. 5 in the capital. “In general, it should be noted that after the full-scale invasion of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine, the activity and principledness of higher and professional pre-higher education students in defending the right to study in the state language increased significantly. In addition, the publication of video evidence of violations of the state language legislation on social networks and online media in educational institutions, it usually causes a wide social resonance,” the ombudsman writes. The Commissioner’s secretariat noted the example of Kharkiv National University named after V. N. Karazin, where they appointed their language ombudsman. “In the education system during 2022, positive trends of expansion of the sphere of functioning of the state language were observed. At the same time, there is a need to strengthen institutional control to ensure compliance with the requirements of the law regarding the use of the state language,” the report adds. We will remind, earlier in Irpen, students complained about a teacher who refused to teach a couple of Ukrainian for first-year students of the Faculty of Journalism. Read also: “She taught in Russian for 35 years”: a teacher of the DPU in Irpen refused to lead pairs in Ukrainian
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