As the Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Sych noted, effective coordination of the activities of 803 higher educational institutions is quite difficult at this stage, because they are subordinated to 13 different ministries and departments.

"This model at least complicates the process of managing the development of higher education and ensuring uniform requirements for its quality." - emphasized the Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine at the interdepartmental meeting on coordinating the activities of III-IV accreditation universities subordinated to the central bodies of the executive power.

Also, the government official emphasized that all significant changes in the system of subordination of higher education institutions require a thoughtful analysis of the current legal framework formed over the past three years, as well as the real needs of today.

"On the one hand, we have no right to blindly lobby for initiatives of the previous government aimed at total centralization in this area. It is quite obvious that the levels of coordination of the activities of "force" and civilian universities can and should be different. On the other hand, eight hundred Ukrainian higher education institutions are too expensive a luxury - especially against the background of neighboring Poland, which has only 11, but powerful higher education institutions," noted Oleksandr Sych.

The results of the meeting were the assignment of the Vice-Prime Minister to work out the issue of transfer of higher education institutions under the control of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and the State Fiscal Service to the sphere of administration of the Ministry of Education within two weeks. "We must finally put an end to the shameful practice, under which some universities stamp specialists in non-specific specialties, the state loses money, and education loses quality and prospects," Oleksandr Sych stressed.

According to the material: Government portal