Education
The main goal of education development in the city of Lutsk in 2004:- implementation of measures to fulfill the State National Program "Education, Ukraine of the 21st Century", resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers, Decrees of the President, and decisions of sessions of the regional and city councils;
- reforming the content of education with a view to bringing it into line with the goal and tasks of educating a citizen of Ukraine;
- determining the education strategy for the coming years and for the long term, and the tactics of new approaches to updating the content of education and the forms of teaching and upbringing of schoolchildren.
In the city of Lutsk, 5,862 people work in the field of education; the number of daytime state institutions is 27, including: 26 schools of I-III levels, of which 4 are gymnasiums, 2 lyceums, 1 collegium, and one boarding school.
There are seven higher education institutions functioning in the city: Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University; Lutsk State Technical University; Volyn Institute of Economics and Management; Lutsk Biotechnical Institute of the International Scientific and Technical University (Kyiv), Higher School "Lutsk Humanitarian University"; Lutsk Institute of Human Development of the Open International University of Human Development "Ukraine"; Volyn Institute named after V. Lypynskyi. More than 27,000 students study at the city's higher education institutions.
All school-age children are enrolled in education (28,615 children study in 27 schools, including 4,389 pupils in gymnasiums). A program for social protection, rehabilitation, and preparation of children and adolescents in need of assistance has been developed. The priority is to resolve the issue of providing material assistance, organizing meals, and improving the health of orphans, children with disabilities, and children from low-income families.
The main problem remains the inconsistency of the network of educational institutions, primarily preschool education, with real needs and budget possibilities.
Main goals and tasks in the field of education in 2004:
- implementation of measures to fulfill the State National Program "Education, Ukraine of the 21st Century", resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers, Decrees of the President, and decisions of sessions of the regional and city councils;
- reforming the content of education with a view to bringing it into line with the goal and tasks of educating a citizen of Ukraine;
- determining the education strategy for the coming years and for the long term, and the tactics of new approaches to updating the content of education and the forms of teaching and upbringing of schoolchildren;
- transformation of individual educational institutions into educational and cultural centers;
- identifying creative youth by holding: school subject Olympiads, professional skills competitions, exhibitions of young artists, competitions of pop song and dance performers, poetry, KVN, and youth exhibitions;
- increasing budget allocations for education;
- expanding accessibility for the younger generation to receive quality education;
- expanding opportunities for certain categories of citizens to obtain higher education through the introduction of mechanisms for providing individual loans;
- computerization of educational institutions;
- promote the expansion of the network of preschool educational institutions with specialized groups, in particular: language and literature focus in preschool educational institutions No. 30; theatrical activities in preschool educational institutions No. 34, 57, 58; intellectual development of the child in preschool educational institutions No. 10, 43; early reading instruction in preschool educational institutions No. 10, 34, 35, 45, 47; music and aesthetic profile in preschool educational institutions No. 30, 45;
- increase in current budget expenditures on education within the city budget structure;
- introduction of modern information technologies that provide access to a network of high-quality databases; development of individual modular curricula of different levels of complexity, and application of computer technologies to the student knowledge assessment system.