2019/2020 school year begins for 4.6 mln students

 For 4.6 million students from nearly 24,000 schools, the new 2019/2020 school year started on Monday.  According to the Ministry of National Education, in the 2019/2020 school year, over 3 million students will study in primary schools. Approximately 1.5 million students will study in secondary schools: 643,500 of them in general secondary schools, 659,900 in technical schools and 199,900 in first-degree industry schools. Because of the recently introduced education reform, there will be many more first-class students in secondary schools this year than in previous years.

(PAP)