ENSURING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE UKRAINIAN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM IN WAR CONDITIONS
Authors: Dashkovskaya O.V. , Kolomoets G.A. , Pogrebnyak V.P. 
Published: December 2024

The relevance of the work. The main threats and challenges facing higher education during the war period, namely, a threat to life and health of participants in the educational process; destruction and damage to the infrastructure of higher education institutions; forced relocation of institutions; the impact of war on the contingent of applicants for higher education and the composition of scientific and pedagogical workers; ensuring equal access to higher education; and other conditions, including limited funding − directly or indirectly affect the state of the entire higher education system. The article examines the process of ensuring the sustainability of the domestic higher education system through the transformation of its components; the decisions made by state governing bodies and higher education institutions and the measures implemented to ensure the viability of the industry in the conditions of martial law and reconstruction in the post-war period are assessed. Purpose. To study the impact of the russian aggression on the sphere of higher education, to analyze the adopted management decisions and the implemented measures, to evaluate their effectiveness in ensuring the functioning of the System in the conditions of war and reconstruction in the post-war period. To inform the educational environment about its modernization in the conditions of martial law. Scientific novelty. From the standpoint of ensuring the sustainability of the system in wartime, management decisions are comprehensively studied and measures are implemented to improve industry management, ensure access to higher education, optimize the university network, and modernize the organization of the educational process. The progress in the process of integrating higher education in Ukraine into the European Higher Education Area is assessed. The practical significance of the work consists in: establishing and assessing the focus and state of implementation of amendments and additions made to the Law during its validity; assessment from the standpoint of ensuring the sustainability of the industry in the conditions of war and the integration of Ukrainian higher education into the European educational space, new legislative and regulatory acts, implemented and planned measures aimed at implementing reforms in the field of higher education; constant information support for the process of implementing the provisions of the Law, the development of the System in the context of modern challenges. Results of the research. The study, analysis and comparison of the adopted management decisions and the consequences of their implementation indicate that the measures taken by government bodies and higher education institutions to overcome the negative impact of the war on the industry ensure its sustainability and efficiency in difficult wartime conditions: the network of higher education institutions is streamlined, the necessary contingents of applicants for higher education are successfully formed and supported, the structure of specialist training, organization and content of the educational process are modernized.