While visiting schools in Ukraine, especially village schools, it is hard to believe that the state spends 6 percent of GDP on education – one of the highest rates of public spending on education in the world. Ukrainian schools often lack adequate facilities, modern equipment or quality textbooks. Rural schools may sometimes lack indoor restrooms, to speak nothing of their outdated classrooms. But this is only the tip of the iceberg; crumbling infrastructure is just the most obvious challenge.
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Satu Kahkonen: Why Ukraine’s education system is not sustainable
Pupils study in a class room of the Vysokivska school in Vysoke Village in Zhytomyr Oblast on May 7, 2018.
