
Insights from International Experiences Transforming GeneralUpper Secondary Educationin Ukraine INSIGHTS FROM INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES This work is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed andarguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Member countries of the OECD. This document, as well as any data and map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty overany territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use ofsuch data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements inthe West Bank under the terms of international law. Photo credits:Cover © VH-studio/Shutterstock.com. Corrigenda to OECD publications may be found at: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/support/corrigenda.html.© OECD 2025 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. By using this work, you accept to be bound by the terms of this licence(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Attribution– you must cite the work.Translations– you must cite the original work, identify changes to the original and add the following text:In the event of any discrepancy between the original work and thetranslation, only the text of original work should be considered valid.Adaptations– you must cite the original work and add the following text:This is an adaptation of an original work by the OECD. The opinions expressed and arguments employed inthis adaptation should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its Member countries.Third-party material– the licence does not apply to third-party material in the work. If using such material, you are responsible for obtaining permission from the third party and forany claims of infringement.You must not use the OECD logo, visual identity or cover image without express permission or suggest the OECD endorses your use of the work.Any dispute arising under this licence shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) Arbitration Rules 2012. The seat of arbitration shallbe Paris (France). The number of arbitrators shall be one. Foreword TheOECD’s Ukraine Country Programme supports Ukraine to leverage OECD expertise and bestpractices, strengthen institutions, and build capacity for successful reforms.Aspart of theUkraineCountryProgramme, the Directorate of Education and Skillsat the OECDis supporting Ukraine as it designs,develops and implements a major reform of its Academic Lyceums-general upper secondary education.The OECD has developed this report to provide insights and advice for Ukraine’s reforms based oninternational evidence and experienceon upper secondary education. The project team that developed this report would like to thank the Ukrainian Ministry of Education andScience for their support and contributions. In particular,Oksen Lisovyi,Minister of Education andScienceof Ukraine,Ihor Khvorostianyi, Director of Directorate of Secondary Education, and Vladyslav Yelenchyn,Senior Project Manager. We also extend our thanks toLiliia Hrynevych,Vice-Rector for Scientific andPedagogical Work at V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraineand Anna DuchenkoDeputy Principalat VinnytsiaPrimary School #25, Ukraine. We thank the representatives from peer countries who graciously elaborated on their systems with us atthe “Peer Learning Seminar: Models of Upper Secondary Internationally, Insights for Ukraine” on 11-12December 2023. In particular, we thank:Ülle Matsin, Head of the General Education Policy DepartmentinMinistry of Education and Research, Estonia;Rachel-Marie Pradeilles Duval, Cheffe du Service del'Instruction Publique et de l'Action PédagogiqueandDominique Javel, proviseur of the Lycée internationalCharles de Gaulle in Dijon, France;Christopher Textor, Head of department, Hessian Ministry ofEducation, Martin Grieben, Director of Studies, UpperSecondary SchoolandCarolin Kubbe, Schoolleader, Carl-von-Weinberg-School, Germany;Artur Górecki, Director, Director of the Department ofGeneral Education and Core Curriculum, Ministry of Education and Science, Poland;Alison Humphreys,Assistant Director, Schools Strategy, Department for Education, Eligio Cerval-Peña, Jointlead: curriculumstrategy,Department for Education,and Matthew Shanks, Chair of the Department for Education’sSecondary Headteacher Reference Group and CEO of Education South West, England. We thank the international schools who joined us for in-depth interviews about how upper secondaryeducation in their systems function which provided input for Chapter 3. In particular:Silvana Butera,Proviseure, Lycée Sevigne, Tourc