Ukraine 5.2

According to Governmental Decree Nr 1717 of 17 November 2000 relating to “State Standards of Primary Education”, “Arts” was introduced as an educational sphere in the primary school curriculum. The Decree stated that: “Contrary to the traditional approach to the educational content in primary schools, when two relatively separate disciplines, Music and Visual Arts are taught, the educational sphere of Arts is directed to involve students in creative activities in musical, visual, choreographic, theatrical and screen arts. On the basis of such interaction of different arts, students will form a comprehensive artistic mentality, a system of aesthetic ideals and tastes, and a feeling of real responsibility for preservation of cultural achievements of society. It is reasonable to interconnect this educational sphere with other humanities (for example, choreographic courses can be integrated with “physical education”; elements of theatrical art – with “reading”)”.

In 2016/2017, there were 1 296 art schools embracing different directions (see Table below).

Table 26:  Network and contingent of art schools in 2010/2011 -2016/2017 school years

Years	Number of schools					Contingent (thou)
	2010/11	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17	2010/11	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17
Total	1 399	1 395	1 307	1 295	1 296	322,4	328,9	306,1	301,7	304,7
Including
Children music schools	833	821	797	793	787	172,6	172,5	167,7	165,7	164,4
Night schools of general music education	2	2	2	2	2	0,7	0,7	0,3	0,7	0,7
Children’s art schools	118	114	108	109	107	22,1	22,0	20,6	19,8	21,2
Secondary art schools	1	2	2	1	2	0,1	0,5	0,6	1,3	0,6
Children’s artistic schools	422	433	377	370	378	121,6	127,8	111,7	109,4	112,9
Children’ choreography schools	9	9	9	8	8	1,9	2,1	2,1	1,9	1,9
Children’s choir schools	8	8	8	8	8	1,2	1,2	1,2	1,3	1,4
Secondary specialised music schools	6	6	4	4	4	2,2	2,1	1,9	1,6	1,6

Source: State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, 2017

Graph 5: Art schools mapped at the beginning of the 2016/2017 school year

Source: State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, 2017

Table 27:       Network and contingent of art schools under the Ministry of Culture at the beginning of the 2016/2017 school year according to their location

	Number of schools			Contingent, thou
	Total	Including		Total	including
		Urban area	Rural area		Urban area	Rural area
Total	1 296	1 046	250	304 701	272 969	31 732
including
Children’s music schools	787	624	163	164 442	146 821	17 621
Night schools of general education	2	2	–	654	654	–
Children’s art schools	107	106	1	21 154	21 095	59
Secondary art schools	2	2	–	576	576	–
Children’s artistic schools	378	292	86	112 940	98 888	14 052
Children’s choreography schools	8	8	–	1 889	1 889	–
Children’s choir schools	8	8	–	1 421	1 421	–
Children’s special music schools	4	4	–	1 625	1 625	–

Source: State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, 2017