Трансформаційні процеси у сфері освіти Хмельниччини в період незалежності України: історико-статистичний аналіз

Abstract

The research traces the changes in the main structural elements of the education sector of Khmelnytskyi Oblast during the years of independence, to analyze the ways and specificity of the reorganization of the education sector of the region and its consequences. The methodology of the research is based on the principles of the concrete-historical approach – historicism, objectivity, comprehensiveness and integrity, systematics, the methods of analysis and synthesis, historical-statistical, historical-comparative, problem-chronological are used. The scientific novelty is in the fact that for the first time in historiography the state, conditions of functioning, problems and prospects of development of the education sector as a component of the social infrastructure of Khmelnytskyi Oblast during the independence of Ukraine are comprehensively shown. Conclusions. Education without doubt plays a key role and has a peculiar meaning for the reform process in Ukraine. No one sectoral reform would be successful if the values and attitudes of citizens did not change. The latter are formed through quality education. The difficult economic and unfavourable demographic situation in the country in general and in Khmelnytskyi oblast, in particular, led to an annual decrease in the number of students. It is shown in a gradual reduction in the number of the network of educational institutions in the oblast of all types. Taking it into consideration, the regional territorial differentiation of the occupancy of educational institutions and the percentage of out-of-school enrolment of children remain problematic. The representatives of the education sector and public organizations should develop a regional program to optimize the number of secondary education institutions to attract young people to institutions of higher and higher professional education. It would give an opportunity to fill the existing educational structures in and increase the level of development of the educational component in the overall development of the infrastructure of Khmelnytskyi Oblast.