Monday, 30 January 2012

Prime Minister Mykola Azarov believes that the legislation on Higher Education needs to include a special section on fighting corruption in establishments of higher education (HEIs).  read more

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Higher education creates the human capital of a nation. It is responsible for the nation’s social development, which in turn realizes the potential of this capital. The potential of a nation depends on the level of education and professional competency of its people read more

Monday, 9 January 2012

he 3rd Black Sea Conference will be held in Batumi, Georgia, on 8-9 June 2012. The theme of this conference is New Technologies in Educational Assessment. The Black Sea Conferences are organized by the Georgian National Examination Centre and aims at bringing together researchers, practitioners and policy makers from the region to learn about and discuss important developments in the field of educational assessment.  read more

Monday, 9 January 2012

The past two weeks have been very eventful—three On Higher Education bills were registered in the Ukrainian Parliament. The first bill was submitted by the government; violating the rules they submitted an old but revised bill prepared by the Ministry (it was analyzed before the New Year). The second was a bill submitted by National People’s Deputies Orobets and Yatsenyuk—we’ll call it the parliamentary bill. The third bill was registered on the day before Christmas by the President’s representative in Parliament, National People’s Deputy Miroshnychenko; it too is a newly revised version of an old bill—let’s call it the Presidential bill. So, what changes do these three bills propose for Ukrainian university professors? To what degree do they promote the interests of HEI faculty? read more

Friday, 30 December 2011

Even a superficial analysis of the new Polish law on Higher Education and the legislation registered in the Ukrainian Parliament indicate that Ukraine is moving in the opposite direction of Poland. Poland has finally rejected centralized standards in higher education and has made the revolutionary first step towards full academic freedom. Academic freedom is crucial if universities are to have autonomy. Universities themselves determine how to prepare their students, and they decide exactly which programs and courses to offer. The new law allows establishments of higher education to offer various unique courses and programs.  read more