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

Tuesday, 27 December 2011

The professional association of the largest establishment of higher education (HEI) is openly opposing interim Chancellor Petro Yehorov. Volodymyr Podmarkov, President of the Union announced that the Union’s committee has demanded that Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk fire Mr. Yehorov because he systematically violates employment laws.  read more

Tuesday, 27 December 2011

The Minister of Education and Science, Youth and Sports, Dmytro Tabachnyk states that he is willing to run in parliamentary elections. He made this announcement during an interview with Interfax-Ukraine  read more

Tuesday, 27 December 2011

“I think that this will be done in the first half of 2012. It should take effect as soon as it is ratified; the financial aspects will be addressed when the new budget is prepared and will gain force when the 2013 budget is ratified,” said the Minister during an interview with Interfax-Ukraine. According to Tabachnyk the Council of Europe’s Committee on Education and Science was pleased with the final draft of the Ukrainian legislation on higher education.  read more

Monday, 26 December 2011

On December 23, 2011 Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk chaired a meeting of the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports. Members of the board, National People’s Deputies, and representatives of the nation’s executive branch participated in the meeting. Ravil Safiullin, Chairman of the State Department of Youth and Sports of Ukraine reported on the progress of implementing the changes proposed by the Public Humanitarian Council led by President of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych dated September 30, 2010. These proposals involved developing physical education, group sports, and improving the health of various segments of the Ukrainian population through physical activity and organized sports.  read more

Friday, 23 December 2011

Maksym Luts’kyy, Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science is convinced that increasing autonomy for establishments of higher education (HEIs) and increasing the quality of the educational process can only be accomplished by decreasing the number of HEIs. He voiced this opinion when answering a question posed by journalists about the future of private HEIs in light of the new legislation On Higher Education.  read more

Wednesday, 21 December 2011

The sixth meeting of the Alliance for the Development of the Ukrainian Standardized Testing Initiative was held on December 21, 2011 in Kyiv. At the meeting representatives from leading universities, experts, and the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) discussed how external independent testing (EIT) should be developed to promote equal access to higher education read more

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine #1283 dated December 14, 2011  read more

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Former leaders of the MoES and UCEQA Pavlo Polyans’kyy (Director of the Community Organization Center for Educational Monitoring) and Ihor Likarchuk (Director of the International Charitable Organization Center for Testing Technologies and Monitoring the Quality of Education) held a press conference on December 20, 2011 at the information agency UNIAN. The press conference was called Education in 2011: Challenges and Outcomes.  read more

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Regardless of what aspects of educational reform are not being address by the government, educational establishments and international technical assistance programs, education must still respond to the needs of society read more

Thursday, 15 December 2011

The Ukrainian delegation led by Yevhen Sulima, First Deputy Minister [of Education and Science, Youth and Sports] is still in the United States of America. On December 9, 2011 representatives from the Ministry and from Ukraine’s establishments of higher education (HEIs) had several meetings with the leaders of some of the most influential educational and scientific organizations in the USA.  read more

Monday, 12 December 2011

On December 10, 2011 a delegation visiting the United States of America led by Yevhen Sulima, First Deputy Minister [of Education and Science, Youth and Sports] met with Dan E. Davidson, President of the American Councils for International Education and representatives of his organization. American Councils for International Education was established in 1974 and is one of the leading organizations in the USA that conducts academic exchange programs for pupils, post graduate students, teachers, and educators, as well as international trainings and internship programs, specifically the Fulbright Program which is supported by the US Department of State.  read more

Sunday, 11 December 2011

On December 10, 2011 a delegation led by Yevhen Sulima, First Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Youth and Sports which included representatives from the Ministry, the Shevchenko National University, the National Mining University, the Oles’ Honchar National University of Dnipropetrovs’k, the National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, the Donetsk National Technical University, the Odesa National Polytechnic University and the V. N. Karazin National University of Kharkiv visited the George Washington University in Washington D. C.  read more

Saturday, 10 December 2011

During a meeting held on December 9, 2011 Yevhen Sulima, the First Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine informed Oleksandr Motsyk, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States of America how negotiations with representatives from the US Department of State were progressing.  read more

Friday, 9 December 2011

On December 8, 2011 a delegation led by Yevhen Sulima, First Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Youth and Sports worked at the United States State Department. The delegation was comprised of representatives from the Ministry, the Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the National Mining University, the Oles’ Honchar National University of Dnipropetrovs’k, the National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, the Donetsk National Technical University, the Odesa National Polytechnic University and the V. N. Karazin National University of Kharkiv.  read more

Monday, 21 November 2011

How to Increase the Quality of Education to Meet Current Labor Market Needs was the topic of a round table held in Kyiv on November 30, 2011. The event was organized thanks to the help of the United States Agency for International Development, Alliance USETI, and the Confederation of Ukrainian Employers read more