Much of this issue is devoted to the Forum of Ministers of Education of the European countries, which held in Kiev on September 22-23 this year

The participants discussed the draft criteria, in particular talked about determining the level of financial and material resources for vocational education, quality of personnel, training and creative students’ achievements

13-19 November 2011 near Geneva was held a special training program as part of the CERN "Science school for Ukrainian physics teachers"

American public school teachers are paid far more than their smarts are worth. That's the provocative conclusion of a new study from two high-profile conservative think tanks

After decades of healthy profits, the scholarly publishing industry now finds itself in the throes of a revolt led by the most unlikely campus revolutionaries: the librarians

Academic, political, media and civil society leaders from various countries and Ukraine met on October 7-8 at the Conference “Roads to Freedom”, held at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The ambassadors of the United States, Canada, Poland, Germany, France, Austria and the European Union attended the conference

In the recent research Thomas Sargent, KSE graduate Victor Tsyrennikov and Timothy Cogley study how market incompleteness affects the distribution of wealth when beliefs are heterogeneous

Highly educated, sometimes entitled and incredibly humbled by the current labor market, Generation Y is hungry for work. But do employers understand this enormous and grossly underemployed demographic? 

Leading academics warn that Education Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk’s attempts to centralize control over universities is hindering their work and dragging Ukraine away from European standards in higher education. Educators and officials from Kyiv Mohyla Academy and Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, two of the country’s leading institutions, said that reducing their independence by introducing greater control over financing and curriculums would damage the quality of teaching and research

The problem of preventing the international ratings of Ukrainian universities in previous years Dmitry Tabachnik explained thus: "It seems that universities simply did not submit applications. This is great work for them and they did not want to do it"Dmitry Tabachnik explained thus: "It seems that universities simply did not submit applications. This is great work for them and they did not want to do it"

23 June 2011. at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Ukraine the First Deputy Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of Ukraine Yevhen Sulima met Myron Stakhov, Director Office of Fulbright Program in Ukraine, to sign a protocol on cooperation.

The European Commission has today adopted the ENPI Interregional Action Programme for 2011. It covers the European Neighbourhood countries - south and east - as well as Russia, and is worth a total of €52 million. The Interregional Programme also aims to strengthen dialogue and co-operation between the EU and its eastern and southern neighbours, while it can get around administrative obstacles, such as having to find funds from two separate programmes for an action involving, for example, Ukraine and Morocco.

The International Ranking Expert Group recently met in Berlin to discuss the standards of rankings that organizations utilize when placing colleges and universities in an order. The IREG is only a few years young and came to be solely for the purpose of "ranking the rankings" and regulating the standards by which institutions of higher education abide.

The University of Cambridge is opening a permanent program in Ukrainian studies, where students will be able to learn the Ukrainian language and culture. In fact, there are very few departments of Ukrainian studies in Europe nowadays. Now the possibility of studying the Ukrainian language and literature is available to students at Cambridge.

On September 23 at 12:00, press center of the Ukrainian News information agency will host a press conference entitled "How Honest Entry In Universities Can Be Provided In 2011." It should be noted that September 25 is the last of public debates on new Conditions for Entry in Universities.

Harvard today forfeits first place to Cambridge in a league table of the world's top universities, the first time in the list's seven year history that the Ivy League institution has been knocked off the number one spot. British universities made a strong showing, with University College London, Oxford and Imperial all appearing in the top 10. American institutions dominate the list, however, taking 31 out of the top 100 places.

A maze of initiatives has rattled Europe’s universities and set them on their bumpy way toward transparency, compatibility, and mobility. The Bologna Process’s overarching goals are transparency and recognition of degrees from one institution by another, comparability and compatibility of courses and degrees among universities, and increased mobility.

Thousands of students and parents flooded Ukrainian university campuses in a panic on the first day in mid-July that schools were to begin accepting admissions applications for the fall 2010 semester. The crush was on this year, as the Education Ministry had cut from three to two weeks the period for submitting documents in person.

On May 28^th, 2010 representatives of privately owned Ukrainian educational institutions met with the Education and Science Minister Dmitry Tabachnik. The meeting included around 300 participants. It was noted that private educational institutions have become a prominent component of the educational environment in Ukraine, have found their place in it and are making an important contribution, providing educational services and improving the educational level of Ukrainian citizens. However, it was also noted that there are still many problems that need to be solved.