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The Verkhovna Rada has adopted as a base a draft law introducing amendments strengthening liability for child pornography and restrictions on external advertising. With its entry into force, the Law on the Protection of Public Morality would be revoked | detail
The dismissal of Ihor Likarchuk from his post as Director of the Ukrainian Centre for Assessing Educational Quality has been widely criticized as a political move and likely to still further jeopardize independent assessment and therefore equal access to education | detail
University World News has drawn its readers’ attention to the warnings issued by the President of Kyiv Mohyla Academy regarding draft legislation on higher education and pressure being placed on the university itself | detail
In an official statement, the Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University [UCU], Father Boris Gudzyak has called on the Ministry of Education to study the Kyiv Mohyla Academy’s educational system and extend its experience to the entire sphere of higher education | detail
We appeal for public support for the position of the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” in our stand against the self-isolation of Ukrainian universities, and against the further degradation of research and education in Ukraine (address for signing a petition) | detail
The President of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy has addressed an open letter regarding the policies of the Minister of Education Dmytro Tabachnyk which he believes jeopardizes higher education in Ukraine and is aimed at closing his independent university | detail
Around 18% of the services providing child pornography are now on Ukrainian territory. Children’s rights defenders say that their number has increased since Russia began fighting cybercrime better | detail
La Strada Ukraine is calling on parliament to pass two important bills aimed at ensuring that those guilty of sexual exploitation of minors are held to account, not their victims | detail
The Ministry of Internal Affairs considers it expedient to introduce a curfew for minors at legislative level | detail
According to Donetsk human rights campaigner, Maria Oliynyk, in the Donetsk region they have begun cutting classes where tuition is in Ukrainian and moving senior school students into a national minority school with Russian as the language of tuition | detail
The proposed amendments introduce liability for the sexual exploitation of children into the Criminal Code with fairly stiff sentences replacing the present inadequate system | detail
While representatives of the Government say that the application process this year avoided corruption , independent experts speak of numerous violations. | detail
Students at Ukrainian institutes are complaining of pressure being brought to bear on them over their active civic position. They speak of “preventive chats” in the Dean’s Office, with threats to expel them | detail
The police claim the curfew will protect children and fight crime, the City School Students’ Council calls it a flagrant violation of young people’s rights | detail
OPORA and the Committee of Voters of Ukraine consider that the new conditions for getting in to a higher educational institute discriminate against those applying in 2010 and violate citizens’ rights to equal access to education | detail
The issue of whether the exams should be introduced in minority language can be argued about, but there can be no question of it being wise to do it now, effectively just two months before the entrance procedure gets underway | detail
Despite calls from many civic institutions, the new Minister of Education has announced the introduction of a three-tier system which introduces much more scope for corruption | detail
The Deputy Prime Minister on Humanitarian Affairs does, however, say that school leaving certificates will form a third of the assessment, which can in no way allay the concerns of those hoping for one external exam to ensure equal access to higher education | detail
If the model for entry proposed by the new Minister of Education is brought into effect, it will be impossible for the public to monitor the process for applying to institutes since it is impossible to monitor all stages of the process (independent testing, tests for institutes, marks in the school certificate) | detail
The Administration of the Ukrainian Catholic University is appealing to the education community in Ukraine to come out publicly about the situation in education following the appointment of Dmytro Tabachnyk as Minister of Education and Science | detail
