Kyiv-Mohyla Business School hosts NaUKMA and UCU Joint Conference

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  "After the war, there will be a window of opportunities, and to fully use them, we need to reach a consensus on the vision of future reforms in the field of education, and formulate and discuss the concept of going forward within the expert community. This will help turn the concept into concrete policies and laws", - Mykhailo Wynnyckyj, assistant professor of the Department of Sociology, KMA.

  On 9th August representatives of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Ukrainian Catholic University met at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (KMBS) to develop a vision for education as it should be reformed after the war.  This was the third conference in a series of monthly meetings.  This last conference was more focused than the previous ones, as there was full consensus that education is a fundamental aspect of Ukraine’s rebuilding.  As a result, the participants faced a huge range of problems:  from the mission and role of a school and university in the modern education system to lifelong education.

Dr. Serhiy Kvit, NaUKMA president

 This conference considered 4 areas of discussion:

-          School education and a need of its decentralization

-          The university as a public institution

-          The university as a source of human capital for key sectors of Ukraine.

-          Lifelong education

  Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Business School’s facilities provided a comfortable setting for a free and direct discussion of urgent issues. The solidarity of the community of experts in the sphere of education underscores the need to prevent the brain drain from Ukraine that poses a danger to society, and to establish conditions in higher education for retaining and attracting students, professors, and researchers.   Education is linked to national security, and that is why the creation of strong, fully autonomous, and internationally competitive universities is the goal to be achieved.  The future of reform is now. 

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