Summary: | The paper gives an overview of the development of higher education in
Ukraine focusing on contemporary education policies and some of the
problems the country faces in implementing education reform. It provides
brief historical survey of the higher education in Ukraine, past and present
education development in the country. It covers policy and structure of the
Ukrainian education system and presents key education issues in the
country. The research also presents the social and political issues which
impact the higher education system and governments' responses to recent
local, regional and global events. The paper mostly focuses on the modern
reform of the higher education system in Ukraine. The primary purpose of
which was to achieve true quality improvement in higher education and the
transformation of Ukrainian educational system to become truly competitive
in the European Union. The presentation analyzes the provisions of the new
Law on Higher Education which are underpinned by a democratic and proEuropean agenda. It follows the progress of the reform of the higher education system in Ukraine, implementation of the Law, significant
challenges in its implementation, arising out not only of the long-established
nature of the post-Soviet higher education system, but also from the
continued war in the eastern region of the country and present Russia’s fullscale invasion of Ukraine.
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