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The ministry of education has substantially cut the funding for the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, forcing it to start large-scale dismissals of faculty, one of KMA senior lecturers told The Gazeta po-Kyivsky Feb. 2. The KMA rector has already notified the faculty about the impending 40% lay-offs of staff. In addition, the ministry, led by Dmytro Tabachnyk, ordered new enrollment procedures, the lecturer confirmed. By doing so, the ministry wants to downgrade KMA, Ukraine’s flagship university, to average standards. Read more.