Oksana Shparyk, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (PhD), Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Comparative Education, Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. Research interests focus on theory and practice of educational reforms in China; trends in the development of school education; improving the quality of the general secondary education; transformation processes in education; educational policy of China. Oksana Shparyk is an author/co-author of about 60 works – monographs and analytical studies, textbooks, journal papers and conference abstracts. She is a member of the editorial boards of the international scientific-practical conference materials collection Comparative and International Education, Education Modern Discourses Journal, reviewer of the Ukrainian Pedagogical Journal.