History

Until recently, it was believed that the history of our University dates back to July 15, 1920, when Kyiv Institute of People’s Education (KIPE) was formally established. However, historical and pedagogical research of the past decade, in-depth study of relevant archival documents and materials, discussions, scientific conferences, and round tables provide grounds to believe that this date is formal and falsified. It does not take into account the fact that the establishment of KIPE had a deeper historical background, embodied in the organizational and institutional forms of systematic training of secular teachers in Kyiv, initiated in 1834 by Pedagogical Institute of St. Volodymyr Kyiv University.

The latter gave rise to a number of higher Kyiv pedagogical educational institutions, the continuity and succession of the evolution of which until 1917 was strictly controlled and ensured by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Empire.In 1920, KIPE inherited the premises, faculty, libraries, and traditions of teacher training of St.Volodymyr Kyiv University, Kyiv Teacher's Institute, Kyiv Higher Women's Courses, Froebel Institute of Preschool Education, etc. In this way, it became a direct successor to Pedagogical Institute of St. Volodymyr University, whose successor today is the Ukrainian State University named after Mykhaylo Dragomanov.