Statement of the problems

By education index Ukraine occupies 18-th place (0,795), leaving behind, in particular, such countries, as Spain (22th place with education index 0,781), Great Britain (24th place; 0,766), France (27th; 0,751), Poland (30th; 0,728), Italy (32th; 0,706), Belarus (35th; 0,683), Portugal (th41; 0,670), the Russian Federation (53th; 0,631). And the average education index in the world — 0,436, which mean that Ukraine exceeds it in 1,8 times.

The Quantity of educational establishments in the world:

Meanwhile on an indicator of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita at par purchasing capacity in US dollars Ukraine occupies 90th place among 169 countries, with the amount of 6535 dollars, — against 29661 dollars in Spain (the GDP per capita is in 4,5 times more than in Ukraine), 35087 dollars in Great Britain (in 5,4 times more), 34341 dollars in France (in 5,3 times more), 17803 dollars in Poland (in 2,7 times more) etc. On the average indicator of gross domestic product per capita in the world equals to 10631 dollars that in 1,6 times more than in Ukraine.

Thus, there is a question: if the statement, that the education is one of the major factors in economic development is true then why Ukraine with such high amount of educated people have such low indexes of economic development one of which is GDP? The difference between these indices is extremely high, but why? It is a big question which we have to resolve.

The quantity of the persons studied in educational institutions on the beginning of 2009/10 academic years, equaled to 7 million 518 thousand, from them 4 million 495 thousand — at schools, 424 thousand — in colleges, 2 million 599 thousand — in high schools. In comparison with 2000/01 academic year, the total amount of pupils has decreased for 18,1 %, from them at schools — has decreased on 33,5 %, in colleges — on 19,3 %, and in high schools — has increased on 34,6 %.

In 2010, Ukraine occupied 134 place in annual rating of perception of corruption (Corruption Perceptions Index). According the survey made by fund «Democratic initiatives», the size of a bribe in various high schools of the country varies from 50 to 4800 grivnas, and the average sum makes 300 grivnas.

The comparative analysis of the most important quantitative parameter —” durations of the education”, made by the Ukrainian researchers K.Korsak and O.Zubritsyka, testifies that in overwhelming majority of member countries of the European Union there is an appreciable increase in duration of secondary education (12—13 years to volume of 9-11 thousand astronomical hours). In Ukraine full duration of secondary education an average is 7000-7600 astronomical hours, which means on 30 % less than in countries of EU. According to the European experts concerning development of education, the main disadvantage of the Ukrainian education — small duration of education which is one of the reasons of non-recognition in Europe certificates and diplomas of the Ukrainian origin. Interesting fact for economists is that in case of less duration of education is working bigger amount of professors and teachers.

In Ukraine during the period of 2000-2007 the State expenditure on education was equal to 5,3% from gross domestic product, whereas in Germany — 4,4, Japan — 3,4, Spain — 4,4, Italy — 4,3, the USA — 5,5, France and Great Britain — 5,6 %. That's mean that the state financing of educational activity is in Ukraine is on the level of the most developed countries in the world, and even exceeds it.

Also interesting data gathered by World poll Gellapa, where the main question was «Are you satisfied by quality of an education system and schools in city or area in which you live?» showed such results: the percentage of people who answered yes in Ukraine equals to 38 %, when in Belarus to 47%, 42% — in Russian Federation, 70% — in USA, 71% — in Canada, 59% —in Germany, 53% — in Japan, 70% —in France, 70% — in Great Britain, 66% —in Poland.

Also one of the approval of unsatisfactory situation in our education system is the fact that none of our educational establishment is included in TOP 500 best universities in the world. And even without polls and surveys we have a lot of questions on which still can't find the answers, such as: why power consumption of our gross domestic product in times exceeds indicators of the developed countries; Why the death rate in Ukraine from noninfectious illnesses on 100 thousand population almost in 1,5-2 times exceeds corresponding indicators of the European countries; why, despite a considerable quantity of engineers of a different profile, in our markets practically there are no qualitative domestic goods? Why at not too big, in comparison with other countries, loading of professors and teachers, the index of distribution of alcoholism, a tobacco smoking, a narcotism among our youth exceed corresponding indicators of the European countries, what are reasons of unsatisfactory educational work?

Perhaps, one of the main reasons of discrepancy between high quantity indicators of educational sphere and indicators of economic development, in particular such indicator as gross domestic product, first of all speaks poor quality of educational activity, or, in other words, low labor productivity of participants of educational process.

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