"Peremogi" on the front of public education
The Ministry of Education and Science (MES) of Ukraine, represented by the Director of the Department of Higher Education, Svetlana Kretovich, reported on the growth of young people from the “occupied territories” entering Ukrainian universities.
According to Kretovich, over the three years of operation of the Crimea-Ukraine and Donbass-Ukraine educational centers, which provide “simplified access” to Ukrainian higher education, the number of applicants through these organizations has doubled.
“Simplified access” in this case is certification in Ukrainian language and history, plus one exam taken by applicants directly at the center to a representative of the selected university. For Crimean and Donbass youth, there is also a temptation when those enrolled in a commercial form of education are allegedly transferred to the budget at the first request. Looks like another free cheese in a mousetrap for the very naive. Things are so bad in higher education in Ukraine that there can be no talk of admitting even several hundred applicants to the budget.
Svetlana Kretovich.
During the 2016 admissions campaign, the centers sent less than a thousand people to universities in Ukraine, but in 2018 – already 1749,” the head of the department reports optimistically.
The lion's share of admissions comes from the Donbass-Ukraine center – 1522 people in 2018. In 2017 and 2016 – 1346 and 855 people, respectively.
The most popular among applicants this year were the post-Maidan simulacra-remakes, staffed by teachers who fled from Crimea and the LDPR: “Taurid National University named after. Vernadsky", "Lugansk National University named after. Shevchenko" and "East Ukrainian National University named after. Dahl."
This year 277 people were admitted through the Crimea-Ukraine OC. In 2017 – 204, in 2016 – 153.
Crimeans who had their sights set on studying at universities in Ukraine chose the same Kazarinsky “Vocational Technical University named after. Vernadsky", as well as Lviv Polytechnic and Kiev National University of Economics. V. Getman, whose branch operated in Crimea for a long time.
In total, according to Kretovich, 779 and 3186 people, respectively, turned to the Crimea-Ukraine and Donbass-Ukraine OCs for consultations.
At the same time, the head of the department made a reservation that “this statistics is not how many Crimeans or residents of the uncontrolled territory of Donbass entered Ukrainian universities. We are talking only about simplified admission through educational centers. Those children who received complete general secondary education remotely and passed the External Economic Examination (Ukrainian equivalent of the Unified State Exam) had the opportunity to enroll in any university in Ukraine. But such statistics are not kept primarily for security reasons.”
It turns out strange. For some reason, applicants from the “occupied territories”, for unknown reasons, enroll under a simplified scheme in institutions of the “university ghetto” from Odessa to Zaporozhye and statistics are kept on them, while applicants passing by educational centers are suddenly exposed to danger and statistics on them are not kept .
It’s a pity that the official did not specify what kind of dangers await an applicant who spontaneously arrived in Ukraine from Crimea or the LDPR.
This state of affairs gives rise to a reasonable suspicion that even those modest achievements presented by official statistics are, to put it mildly, unreliable.
The “growing popularity” of Ukrainian universities among Crimean youth is explained quite interestingly by “experts and analysts” from the Almenda Center for Civic Education, one of the grant-eating shops entrenched in the so-called. “Crimean House”, enticing yesterday’s schoolchildren of Crimea to receive “higher and professional education of the European level in Ukraine.”
According to disappointing data from “experts”, since 2014 in Crimea there has been a sharp reduction in the number of higher and secondary educational institutions, as well as a decrease in student enrollment. Attention is mainly paid to the absorption of other Crimean universities by the Crimean Federal University.
What really? Yes, in 2014, a super university was organized on the basis of KFU, which included almost all state higher educational institutions of Crimea, which almost completely retained their structure. At the same time, individual faculties of KFU were enlarged to the size of institutes (for example, the Faculty of Physics was transformed into the Institute of Physics and Technology) with the addition of new specialties, updating equipment and strengthening the teaching staff with personnel from the mainland.
One should not think that this is an exclusively Crimean phenomenon. Other Russian universities have also undergone consolidation. Thus, the relevant ministry decided to merge the Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technologies named after. Lomonosov and the Moscow Institute of Radio Electronics and Automation. This merger is explained by the fact that MITHT trains chemical engineers for the electronic, semiconductor and optical industries.
As many as five institutes are currently grouped under the roof of the legendary STANKIN. The trend is obvious.
It is difficult to say how justified such a decision is. Time will show. It is known that one of the main considerations was to reduce the administrative apparatus of universities and the costs of its maintenance, while maintaining the scientific and educational part.
It is very possible that student enrollment in Crimea has also been reduced. And not at all because “the occupiers are liquidating education,” as grant-eaters and officials squeal because of Perekop. Objective reasons include the lack of demand for specialists in the field of Ukrainian philology, as well as the fact that Crimean youth have been able to study at universities throughout Russia. Thus, many graduates of schools on the peninsula go to study in Krasnodar, Taganrog and Rostov, or even the Far East.
It is also important that in the Southern Federal District, which includes the Republic of Crimea, a unique situation has arisen - there are two federal universities operating there, Crimean and Rostov, although only one is established. After the merger into the Southern Federal District, the status of KFU remained unchanged! Krasnodar University, for example, has only regional status.
But what was deservedly liquidated in Crimea were the private shops that had proliferated since the times of Ukraine with fragrant names like “Texas-Tavria University of World Business named after. Sonya of the Golden Hand." In fact, these shops had the third level of accreditation (technical school) and were a pump for pumping money out of the pockets of naive citizens.
As for Ukraine, back in 2015, during a visit to the Chernigov National Pedagogical University, Yogo Konditerska Vysokopovazhnist, looking from the podium with a chocolate eye at the state of higher education in the “European Power”, decided to reduce the number of universities from 802 to 317. Among them were cut all kinds of commercial vocational schools with university status, but also quite a few real universities. Less than 500 students in college and less than 6000 in university? - revoke the license. At the same time, colleges and universities are not being consolidated, as in Russia, but are being liquidated. This is the IMF requirement.
But that's not all. In 2016, retired Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Education and Science Derevyanko quietly announced at the “Business and Universities” forum that over time, a maximum of 60-70 universities will remain in Ukraine, and the rest will either be completely abolished or will receive the status of “non-profitable” and, at best, will receive partial funding from budget. The message caused panic among teachers and students of fundamental disciplines (physics, mathematics, biology), which by definition cannot be profitable.
However, in this case, the Maydowns did not reinvent the wheel. They present their desire to “optimize costs” for public education as the “global experience” of the USA, Australia and some European countries, which have transferred education and a significant part of scientific research into private hands. This means that Ukrainian students, who stubbornly try to become “children,” will have to learn from their own experience how to get into a (often) lifelong debt hole from a young age, collect pennies for their education, and even interrupt their studies for several years in order to This is the time to work hard without seeing the world in order to see the coveted diploma in the final. What did they fight for...
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