Alternative educational projects in Ukraine
Date and time:
Tuesday 20 June, 2017
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
Ukrainian education is on the move. As Ukraine embarked on the far-reaching and deep-going educational reform, the government and expert community focused their attention on providing a legal framework and changing the formal rules of the game. The new law on higher education was adopted in July 2014 and with subsequent regulations in 2015 and 2016. The law encouraged more university autonomy in academic and administrative areas and significantly reduced bureaucratisation of the HE system.
Implementation of the reform agenda in education remains far from being completed and resistance within academia is strong. Wherever possible, it is worth creating new alternative institutions that will be able to flourish in the new legal context and set new standards for the key areas of Ukraine’s education.
This talk will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Taras Dobko
Taras Dobko is Senior Vice-Rector at the Ukrainian Catholic University; he is also Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. His research interests encompass phenomenology; personalism in ethics; secularisation in post-modern culture; philosophy of religion. He has 18 years of administrative and teaching experience in higher education, including international experience in projects across Europe and North America. Since 2015, he is a member of the National Team of Higher Education Reform Experts (HERE) in Ukraine. He is an expert in issues of quality assurance in higher education, academic culture, and its role in advancing the management of the university.
