English language publications

Below you can find a list of publications that were published in English.

Kyiv Mohyla Business School was named Best MBA Program for the year 2010 by the Kyiv Post. More information at http://www.kyivpost.com/news/city/detail/95742/. For the last ten years Kyiv Post established a tradition to issue awards to individuals, organizations and businesses that contribute to the development of Ukraine. As one of Ukraine’s top reliable news sources, the surveys conducted by Kyiv Post are highly regarded and trusted. A panel consisting of 21 to 39 community and business leaders and 1,000 online voters cast their ballots to determine awards in various categories related to lasting contributions to Ukraine in various areas. Kyiv Mohyla Business School was established in 1999 to educate business leaders who make lasting contributions to Ukraine and the world, with a focus on the highest quality learning, leadership with an international perspective and social responsibility.

Patriarch and Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Cardinal Lubomyr Huzar met with Kyiv students at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy on February 15. The meeting was organized by the “Obnova” Organization of Catholic Students.

Vyacheslav Briukhovetsky: “I won’t let anyone take my child away.” Answering questions about rumors that the Ministry of Education would take over the university, Vyacheslav Briukhovetsky, honorary president of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, who re-established the university in 1991 after the breakup of the Soviet Union, commented that National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy has 400 hundred years of history, is one of Ukraine’s foremost universities, it is integrated into the world academic community, and added, “I won’t let anyone take my child away.”

Translated Excerpts from Original article in Ukrainian http://www.pravda.com.ua/columns/2011/02/14/5915794/

Quote from the Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Education Volodymyr Polokhalo: (translation)“I am fully in agreement with the demands of the students and clearly declared that the proposed draft law "About Higher Education" from Tabachnyk not only makes honest (transparent) entrance to universities impossible, but it also limits the right to get a free education to talented Ukrainian youth, whose parents do not have the ability their children's education."

Dr. Volodymyr Morenets

Open critical judgments about the newly appointed Minister of Education D. Tabachnik (upheld by a fundamental analysis of his outlook and positions - See research article of Ivan Dziuba, "Bitter Dents from Tabachnik”, published in the newspaper “Day”, summer 2010); a fierce struggle for the university’s own entrance exam requirements that would allow for admission of English speaking students; a consistent critique of the newly proposed draft law on higher education proposed by D.V. Tabachnik, accumulated in the symbolic phrase “struggle for university autonomy”; a sharp adverse reaction to the ministry’s proposed concept on the teaching of history, literature, languages (the latter “still in the making”) – all this criticism by Kyiv-Mohyla activists may seem to the general public to be a local waste of energy, an excessive reaction by a demanding university, and examples of the university’s own promotion in the media for student applicants.

Press Service - Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America

Kyiv Mohyla Business School was named Best MBA Program for the year 2010 by the Kyiv Post. More information at http://www.kyivpost.com/news/city/detail/95742/

Press Service of Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America and Press Service of the Canada Ukraine Foundation

The Draft Law on Higher Education (No.7486-1) proposed by Ukraine’s Minister of Education Dmytro Tabachnyk was defeated on February 2, 2011 at the Parliamentary Commission on Education.

NaUKMA Honorary Professor Mykhailyna Kotsubynska passed on January 7, 2011

Discord continues between the Kyiv Mohyla Academy and Ukraine’s Ministry of Education. At an UNIAN press conference on January 4, Academy President Serhij Kvit described how the Tabachnyk’s Ministry is pressuring the university, how it does not allow the Academy to prepare its PhD candidates, and refuses to approve the Academy’s charter and admission policy. The “Father” of the re-established Kyiv Mohyla Academy and its current honorary president, literary critic, pedagogue, social activist Vyacheslav Bryukhovetskyy spoke about the “war” between the Academy and the Ministry and the current situation in Ukraine’s educational sector in an interview with UNIAN.

Renewal of the historic landmark buildings in Kyiv-Mohyla Academy will be a testament to the fact that Kyiv and Ukraine possess, respect and preserve their own cultural and educational shrines, like Cambridge or Oxford in Great Britain, Sorbonne in Paris or Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Vyacheslav Briukhovetsky, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Honorary President

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports established a Commmission of Expert Personnel, to investigate the activities of rectors of institutions of higher education. The provision of the Commission Expert Personnel and its staff was approved by the order of the Ministry and signed by the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Tabachnik.

Freedom never comes easily, it has to be gained. It is never easy to achieve. The same applies to university autonomy, which is the goal that Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is struggling to defend, and which will be achieved as a result of many efforts which will strengthen us and will bring about improved results…

HIGHER EDUCATION IN UKRAINE: BACK TO THE USSR? NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV MOHYLA ACADEMY RESPONDS

Dear Colleagues – Faculty Members, Students, Fellow Members of the Administration and NaUKMA Alumni!

a letter from Rector Gigi Tevzadze

Academicians Ivan Dzuba and Myroslav Popovych declared their support to NaUKMA position concerning the Draft Law “On Higher Education” for Ukraine

The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) declared support to NaUKMA position, encouraged UWC sub-offices to invite attention of HEIs in their countries of residence to the issue, and urged Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Lytvyn, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and Mykola Azarov, Prime Minister of Ukraine to prevent enacting legislation injurious to Ukrainian higher education.

“To observers on the outside, watching events unfold during the coming weeks at NaUKMA, one message must be clear: Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is being neutralized because it is too autonomous, too Western-oriented, too successful, too uncorrupted, too innovative for Tabachnyk. Instead of being used as an example of successful reform, the NaUKMA experience is in danger of being extinguished, and if this happens, Ukraine will have lost one of its few truly European educational institutions,” was the conclusion which Director of NaUKMA Graduate School Mychailo Wynnyckyj made in his article published at KyivPost web-site.

NaUKMA alumni maintained the position of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and applied to the state leaders, demanding to discard proposed by Dmytro Tabachyk Draft Law “On Higher Education” as directed to self-imposed isolation of the country, degradation of science and education in Ukraine.

On December 12, the website of the Ukrainian Catholic University published an appeal by the Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University Dr. Borys Gudziak “The Ministry of Education should explore learning system of NaUKMA and extend its experience to the whole field of higher education”.