The Ministry of Education does not support a new bill that proposes to remove mathematics from the list of mandatory subjects at secondary schools, as stated by the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Oksen Lisovyi.
The Ministry of Education does not support a new bill that proposes to remove mathematics from the list of mandatory subjects at secondary schools, as stated by the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Oksen Lisovyi.
"The government has submitted a bill on the conditions for admission for 2027, it corresponds to the conditions that currently exist in 2026... We categorically do not support an alternative bill that provides for slightly different conditions for mathematics," Lisovyi said, Interfax-Ukraine reports .
According to the minister, mathematics should remain mandatory, since the NMT is designed to test the basic competencies of a graduate - the ability to read, write, and count.
"Abolishing mathematics or history, removing them from mandatory subjects of secondary education is absurd, it will not lead to any positive changes for us as a country," Lisovyi emphasized.
Recall that on June 2, 2026, a draft law was registered in the Verkhovna Rada, which proposes to make mathematics an optional subject at secondary schools in 2027. However, representatives of the IT sector, scientists, the military, and the business community categorically criticized this initiative.
An analysis of NMT results for four years, starting in 2022 (when the test was introduced instead of the external assessment), showed that mathematics has the highest rate of those who failed the exam, as well as the lowest average score compared to history and the Ukrainian language .
