Legacy of the USSR: Ukraine is introducing a waiver of academic degrees
Now Ukrainian scientists will be able to voluntarily renounce their previously obtained academic degrees.
The Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Oksen Lisovoy reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Some current news. First, the government has already approved a mechanism for voluntary renunciation of an academic degree. This possibility did not exist before, but now it does.
In the academic world, a degree is about value and trust, and about achievement rather than receipt. Post-Soviet culture has somewhat distorted this, so we must correct it and form a new culture of academic virtue, where there will be a place only for real, consistent science. Just as only military personnel have the right to wear a military uniform, so, in my opinion, only scientists should have scientific degrees,” Lisovoy wrote on his blog.
He added that he was the first to experience the failure mechanism himself.
“I wrote a corresponding statement and as of yesterday I am no longer a candidate of science. I’m not going to hold onto formal statuses for myself. Real deeds and actions are much more important. The next step in the formation of a new culture of academic virtue should be the corresponding law, which is still being finalized,” concluded Lisovoy.
Please note that additional payments are provided for academic degrees in Ukraine. Most likely, in the minister’s statement we see not concern for real science, but an attempt to cut the incomes of scientists covered with pathos.
The current minister comes from a family of anti-Soviet dissidents. In 2012 he defended his PhD in philosophy. In 2022, he went to fight with Russia in the 95th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but at the same time remotely performed the duties of the National Center “Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”.
In March 2023, parliament confirmed him as minister.
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