24.04.2012 Andriy Portnov about academic solidarity

Why is there so little solidarity in the Ukrainian intellectual space? What can unite the humanitarians, formally declaring the commitment to the ideals of scientific identical? What differs German consensus culture from the Ukrainian opposition culture?

Andriy Portnov (translated by USC)

Кількість показів: 175

30.01.2012 Draft higher education law is retrogressive, obstructs integration

The appointment of Dmitry Tabachnik as minister of education and science in March 2010 was an attempt to turn back all of Ukraine's efforts towards integration with Europe on higher education issues

Serhiy Kvit

Кількість показів: 102

23.11.2011 Ukraine's Catholic university victim of old Soviet ways

Canadians' support for the only Catholic university in the former Soviet Union — which was recently backed up by a $1.2 million donation from businessman James Temerty — sends a strong message that promotes democracy and religious freedom in Ukraine, said Fr. Borys Gudziak

Sheila Dabu Nonato

Кількість показів: 333

03.08.2011 Statistics show

Professor at the Royal Caroline Institute, in Sweden, has done the impossible. He turned boring statistics into an exciting show - dynamic and unexpected. His foundation, called Gapminder, has transformed boring, not to say insipid lectures on the analysis of quantitative or qualitative data and average numbers, into Disneyland, Mondo Bongo and Hakuna matata

Olena Pototska

Кількість показів: 560

20.06.2011 Why there Britain's universities are major, and in Ukraine - Ministers?

While Ukrainian universities provide a massive "ok"- reform from Mr. Tabachnik, educators demanding the resignation of Oxford UK Ministerial ...

Inna Sovsun

Кількість показів: 1023

17.06.2011 Insulted elite or castration for intellectuals

This week a few of my friends from laboratories in universities south of Ukraine reported that there are removing a surcharge to pay: for the title, for harm and for years of service.

Vsevolod Samokhvalov

Кількість показів: 552

20.12.2010 UKRAINE: Universities 'face new Iron Curtain'

The president of one of Eastern Europe's oldest universities has written an open letter to the president of Ukraine to warn that draft legislation on higher education will reintroduce "authoritarian and centralised governmental control of higher education", degrade science and learning and erect a new 'Iron Curtain' between Ukrainian and European institutions.

Jan Petter Myklebust

Кількість показів: 851

04.10.2010 Once and for all, tear down this academic wall!

Nation’s hidebound academics still fear, even hate the West. The walls separating Ukraine from the West have been gradually crumbling over the past 20 years. The legacies of Soviet education policies, however, proved strong and lasting. As a result, there is still no university in Ukraine which offers Western Ph.D.-holders the same treatment that Ukrainian degree holders get.

Serhiy Kudelia

Кількість показів: 1170

16.09.2010 Petition by historians in response to detention of their colleague Ruslan Zabily

On 9 September 2010 SBU agents detained the historian Ruslan Zabilyi and confiscated his research material. Now the SBU is seeking to launch a criminal case against him. Whether we share Ruslan Zabilyi’s views or not, we consider it absolutely impermissible for a security service to harass researchers and obstruct intellectual activities.

Кількість показів: 971

13.09.2010 Stepan Bandera: Lonsky Street blues

Zabily is detained in Kyiv by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), questioned for 14 1/2 hours, his notebook and hard discs confiscated and a criminal investigation opened against him. The charge: Zabily was going to reveal state secrets. Domestic and international human rights watchdogs were quick to condemn the SBU’s reversion to KGB tactics. The speculations about the reasons for intimidating Zabily are many.

Stepan Bandera

Кількість показів: 1072

03.08.2010 Joint Statement of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies and the Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada on the Recent Developments Regarding Academic Freedom in Ukraine

Our organizations express their deep concern at recent attempts to curtail the autonomy of academic institutions and academic freedom in Ukraine. These developments threaten to abrogate the hard-won right to free speech on campus; to pit administrators against students; to influence admission policies, personnel decisions, and academic curricula; and to enforce the unanimity of thought and behavior on campus. They are disturbingly reminiscent of the former official practices of intimidation, coercion, and cooptation of educational institutions in Soviet Ukraine.

Кількість показів: 820

05.05.2010 After Ukraine relinquishes uranium, nuclear scientists in Kharkov want to build a fundamentally new reactor

After Ukraine's agreement to relinquish highly enriched uranium made at the Summit on Nuclear Safety, Ukrainian scientists expect to reach a whole new level of research. Specifically, the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, is hoping to use the promised American financial resources and technology to build a fundamentally new reactor.

Кількість показів: 1011

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