Contextualizing the Development of Ukrainian Higher Education: Between Soviet Legacies and European Regionalization
Journal: East/West Journal of Ukrainian Studies
Year: 2020

This paper contextualizes the development of Ukrainian higher education in broad historical, geopolitical, and socio-economic realities. The author argues that these realities determine the current Ukrainian education trajectory. Higher education reforms in Ukraine are analyzed in the context of two major influences: European regionalization and inherited Soviet structures in education. Particular focus is placed on the Bologna Process, the European education initiative to standardize higher edu