On August 16, 2023, the leading specialist of the Educational and Scientific Institute of History, Ethnology and Archeology of the Carpathians Bohdan Paska took part in the meeting of the Expert commission on history of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The meeting was chaired by the head of the Department of Source Studies and Special Historical Disciplines of the Institute of Historical Education of the Ukrainian State University named after Mykhailo Drahomanov, prof. Oleksandr Valentinovych Potylchak (chairman of the Expert commission), the secretary was a senior researcher of the department of scientific and educational and methodical support of the content of general secondary education at the National Academy of Sciences of the State Scientific Institution “Institute of Modernization of the Content of Education”, PhD Olena Kostyantynivna Gurska.
During the meeting, 8 objects of marking were considered – model curricula from the courses “History of Ukraine”, “World History”, “History of the Jewish People” intended for students of grades 5-9. In the course of the meeting, several MNPs were sent for revision by the decision of the expert commission due to rather serious comments from the experts. Bohdan Paska presented to the commission an expert opinion on the Ministry of Education and Culture from the educational course “History of Ukraine. 7-9 grades”. The expert’s opinion was supported and approved by the Expert commission.