OREANDA-NEWS. September 01, 2010. One of the main objectives of our Government is to improve the social status of scientific and pedagogical workers, the social protection of students and young students. The Vice Prime Minister Vyktor Tykhonov said that in the National University "Ostrog Academy", being in the town of Ostrog, Rivne region, where he took part in celebrations to mark the beginning of the new school year.

"In the medieval Ostrog the university of Eastern peoples was founded for the first time ever. In Eastern Europe, on the Slavic lands Ukraine became the number one in education and science, and the graduates of this academy were valued not less than today's graduates of Oxford or Cambridge"- the Vice Prime Minister said during his speech.

Vyktor Tykhonov said that the youth, which this year was admitted to the Academy, must remember that learning for the glory of their alma mater, they should always be the best, always and everywhere be the first, for the words "for the first time", "first" for more than four centuries are associated with the Ostrog Academy.

In addition, the Vice Prime Minister stressed that the President and the Government has identified the education reform, which aims to achieve a new quality of Ukrainian society as the base for the entire program of systemic reforms, and consequently as the main priority of public policy.

In the same time, Vyktor Tykhonov said that despite the global financial crisis, one of the main objectives of our Government is to raise the social status of scientific and educational workers, social protection of students and youth.

"We want return due respect, social status, and certainly worthy of financial reward of labour to the professions of teacher, scientist in our country" - the official stressed.

The Vice Prime Minister also expressed hope for the active involvement of educators and the public to the formation of governmental decisions, creating legal and regulatory framework that meets the requirements of modernity and joint problem solving of that sector.

Vyktor Tykhonov on behalf of himself and the Government congratulated the teachers and the students on the beginning of the academic year and wished everyone good health, inexhaustible energy and generous fate with God's blessing for each day.