OREANDA-NEWS. February 17, 2014. Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Kostyantyn Gryshchenko held a meeting dedicated to the development of IT education in Ukraine.

The participants of the meeting raised a series of questions the realization of which is necessary to ensure successful development of information technologies area of Ukraine.

Among them are providing real economy sector enterprises with sufficient amount of IT specialists, harmonizing of education standards in compliance with the needs of the branch, the level of teaching foreign languages and level of development of Internet infrastructure in the national universities and institutes.

According to K. Gryshchenko, one of the key issues that influences the development of information communication technologies area appears providing enterprises with sufficient number of specialists. At this, the Vice Premier emphasized on the need to harmonize educational professional standards taking into account practical demands of the branch, improvement of the level of teaching foreign languages and increasing competitiveness among the applicants entering higher educational institutions.

Peculiar attention was paid to the development of e-libraries in Ukraine and Internet infrastructure of the higher educational institutions. “I am convinced in this year the percentage of universities using in full electronic library resources, both international and national ones, will significantly grow,” the Vice Prime Minister stressed.

Apart from that, the Government’s official considers important the level of Wi-Fi coverage of university campuses, laboratories and hostels.