Teacher's Day

Teacher’s Day is a holiday that stays with us forever.Professional International Day of Education Workers was founded by UNESCO in 1994. In Ukraine, the Day of Education Workers according to the Presidential Decree of September 11, 1994 is celebrated on the first Sunday of October, informs the unified web portal of the executive authorities of Ukraine.

However, many citizens of Ukraine, who received education at the time when the country was part of the USSR, remember the festive bouquets of asters and chrysanthemums, which were awarded according to tradition or with sincere gratitude to teachers on Teachers’ Day. White aprons and shirts were worn at the end of the first week of October by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 29, 1965.

“Teacher’s Day is a holiday that stays with us forever,” says the government portal.

Today in independent Ukraine almost 860 thousand teachers, educators, masters of industrial training, scientific and pedagogical workers and managers. They teach and educate more than a million preschoolers, educate more than five million schoolchildren, teach the future specialty to almost three million students of the country.