New Ukrainian School

About the project. The website nus.org.ua is one of the country’s largest educational media, created in 2017 by the NGO “Smart Osvita” in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. It was founded in the middle of 2017 to illuminate and communicate the “New Ukrainian School” reform. This is an informal platform for communication between educators, officials, and parents, highlights and explains the reform of secondary education, disseminates the best cases from Ukrainian schools, and demonstrates successful foreign practices.

Essential topics related to the reform of NUS are raised on the platform, as well as highlighted answers to the most common questions of various natures discussed the best cases from Ukrainian schools, and analyzed best practices in Ukraine and abroad. Many valuable and exciting materials for parents, students, teachers, and school administration are published here.

Goal. The project was created to communicate the “New Ukrainian School” reform, designed to generate new meanings and values of development, respect, child-centeredness, and innovation.

SITE IN NUMBERS

We launched a media platform about education, nus.org.ua, in mid-August 2017.  Around 400,000 people visited it by the end of the year.

Further, the media showed steady growth in the audience:

• 1.6 million unique visitors came to the site in 2018;
• 2.3 million in 2019;
• 4.4 million in 2020;
• 5 million in 2021;
• 5, 4 million in 2022.

700,000+ teachers, parents, and educational managers visit https://nus.org.ua monthly 

The project is also developing in social networks. We manage:

• Facebook page (with more than 119,000 followers);
• Viber (over 35,000 members);
• two Telegram channels for students (7.3 thousand and 3.4 thousand participants);
• YouTube channel (6.2 thousand subscribers).

Partners:

Term: from 2017.