The draft law on higher education is ineffective and should not be adopted by the Verkhovna Rada, President of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Serhiy Kvit has said.
"We should abandon this law on higher education… This law is ineffective. If the state returns to such laws, then next time, if it is now considered, we’ll return to it in ten years. This is what we are losing every day," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.
Kvit said that "this law illustrates [the situation] – changing something formally, without changing anything in fact."
He also said that he had prepared an open letter to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.
"I propose that a draft law on higher education proposed by Ukrainian Education and Science Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk be abandoned, because it is aimed at the self-isolation of Ukraine and the further degradation of science and education in our state," reads the letter.
Kvit also said that if the bill were voted in parliament, the leadership of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy would ask the European community for assistance.
