[6] The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine intends to give general education schools the option to independently manage the financial resources assigned from the state budget starting from 1 January 2010.

The objective of general schooling is to give younger students knowledge of the arts and sciences, and teach them how to use it practically.

Part of the school day is also spent in activities such as chess, karate, drama, learning folktales and folk songs, choir, and band.

In school year 2009-2010 potential graduates are scheduled to undergo external independent testing after the final state examination, in the following subjects: Ukrainian language and literature, history of Ukraine, mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, geography, and one foreign language (of the pupil's choice) in either English, German, French, or Spanish.

Students who study at state expense receive a standard scholarship if their average marks at the end-of-term exams and differentiated test is at least 4 (see the 5-point grade system below); this rule may be different in some universities.

Upon obtaining a master's degree or Specialist, a student may enter a university or a scientific institute to pursue postgraduate education.

The first level of postgraduate education is aspirantura that usually results in the Kandydat Nauk degree (Candidate of Sciences).

Mark "0" is very rarely given in Ukrainian schools (when student refuses to answer for question or doing any exam or task).

[25] The law does state that "Persons belonging to indigenous peoples of Ukraine are guaranteed the right to study in public facilities of preschool and primary education in the language of instruction of the respective indigenous people, along with the state language of instruction" in separate classes or groups.

[19] PACE describes this as a significant curtailing of the rights of indigenous peoples carried out without consultations with their representatives.

[21] On 27 June 2018 Ukrainian foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin stated that following the recommendation of the Venice Commission the language provision of the (September 2017) law on education will not apply to private schools and that every public school for national minorities "will have broad powers to independently determine which classes will be taught in Ukrainian or their native language.

[28] According to the 2020 law until the fifth year of education all lessons can be completely taught in the minority language without mandatory teaching of subjects in Ukrainian.

[28] Then every year the volume of teaching in the state language (Ukrainian) should increase, reaching 40% in the ninth grade.

There are schools with instruction in Romanian, Crimean Tatar, Hungarian, and Polish in regions populated by those groups.

The initial policies of the Bolsheviks were supportive of local languages, and many Ukrainian-language schools were opened, with the long-term goal of getting rid of illiteracy.

In 1991/92 academic year, according to the Razumkov Centre, 49% of high school students were receiving their education in Ukrainian, and 50% in Russian.

[33] In early April 2022, it was reported that at least 869 education facilities or about 6% of schools in Ukraine had been damaged, with about 83 completely destroyed and other classroom being used as emergency accommodation.

[34] The Ukrainian government paused all education for a few days when the war first broke out, before returning to online learning that had been the precedent from the COVID-19 pandemic, with some schools re-opening in person teaching by May 2022 in less affected areas.

[36] In 2022 works by Russian and Soviet authors were removed from the foreign literature curriculum of Ukrainian schools.

The use of explosive weapons in the conflict destructed thousands of schools and other educational buildings throughout Ukraine, especially those located in densely populated areas.

The UNICEF urged for more support to ensure access to offline learning resources and supplies for children.

[38] According to British economist Frances Cairncross (in April 2010), "Ukrainian education is too inward-looking, too corrupt and too poor to do a good job".

As a result, the majority of the Ukrainian graduates do not possess even a basic level of professional knowledge when they leave their schools.

Due to extremely ineffective educational policy of the Ukrainian government and ubiquitous corruption the everyday life of the society has been significantly changed.

The new developed qualities of the social transformation include aggression, rudeness, intolerance, boastfulness, reticence etc.