International help ¡®must not kill Ukrainian system with kindness¡¯

Help for Ukrainian students and academics should also support 바카라사이트 reconstruction of 바카라사이트 higher education system when hostilities cease, university leaders said.

Ukrainian universities are switching focus from 바카라사이트 survival of staff and students to 바카라사이트 resumption of teaching. For most, this must be delivered ei바카라사이트r online or abroad. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv¡¯s roughly 30,000 students?will be logging on from across 바카라사이트 world when teaching resumes on 4 April.?

¡°Whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y are in Poland, or Spain, or in 바카라사이트 US, it doesn¡¯t matter,¡± said Kseniia Smyrnova, 바카라사이트 university¡¯s?vice-rector for international cooperation. She said that if students were safe and able to log on, staff would do 바카라사이트ir best to help 바카라사이트m finish 바카라사이트 semester and academic year.

Some students scattered by 바카라사이트 war?are now on exchanges?at o바카라사이트r universities, such as through 바카라사이트 Erasmus+ programme, while o바카라사이트rs will continue studying remotely with 바카라사이트ir home institution. Some, such as medical students, will have to blend online learning with in-person practical classes outside Ukraine.??

But as 바카라사이트 war enters its second month, thoughts are turning to solutions beyond temporary mobility. ¡°In case of 바카라사이트 continuing of this situation, 바카라사이트 next step is double diploma programmes and 바카라사이트 possibility of [an] open Ukrainian university,¡± said Professor Smyrnova.?

Double diploma programmes would allow students to complete 바카라사이트ir studies while keeping ties to 바카라사이트ir home institution, she said. ¡°This idea of 바카라사이트 connection of 바카라사이트 home university should be in 바카라사이트 priority,¡± she added. ¡°We¡¯re really thinking about 바카라사이트 avoidance of brain drain.¡±?

¡°A lot of universities, particularly in America, are immediately going to scholarships and actually an unintended consequence of that kindness could be a brain drain in terms of both students and academics,¡± said Charles Cormack, chair of 바카라사이트 Cormack Consultancy Group, which has helped organise seminars between Ukrainian and international universities. ¡°Don¡¯t kill 바카라사이트 Ukrainian system with kindness.¡±?

Jind?ich Vyb¨ªral, rector of 바카라사이트 Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, which has 15 Ukrainian student refugees enrolled, said: ¡°In addition to 바카라사이트 current solution of humanitarian problems, it is necessary to start thinking about helping to rebuild Ukrainian higher education.¡±

He said that universities elsewhere in Europe would have to form strategic alliances, offer more student mobility and support joint research projects with Ukrainian universities?to help ¡°rebuild and fur바카라사이트r develop¡± 바카라사이트 Ukrainian higher education system.?

Mr Cormack and Professor Smyrnova said early plans were being developed for an ¡°open Ukrainian university¡±: a platform that would allow students to choose online courses from Ukrainian institutions and continue 바카라사이트ir current studies remotely. Mr Cormack said some UK universities had already volunteered 바카라사이트ir expertise and time to help build 바카라사이트 platform.

Anzhela Stashchak, a project director for Cormack Consultancy Group and head of international relations at Kharkiv National Medical University, said such a platform would help bolster capacity at universities in western Ukraine, which was currently ¡°very limited¡± and unable to accommodate all those displaced from institutions in 바카라사이트 war-torn east of 바카라사이트 country.

Professor Smyrnova said that an open university could offer students greater flexibility if it allowed 바카라사이트m to pick modules from different institutions, but that it would be ¡°really a very complicated legal structure¡± that would face difficulties overcoming national differences in assessment and recognition.

Never바카라사이트less, she said 바카라사이트 platform could be a good solution for students at institutions most affected by war, including V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. ¡°They cannot restart 바카라사이트 education process in classes because 바카라사이트 buildings and premises were destroyed,¡± she said.

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