The Internationalization of Ukrainian Universities: European, National, and Institutional Dimensions
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v16i3.6355Keywords:
European regionalization, institutional theory, internationalization, regional, national, and local influences, Ukrainian universitiesAbstract
This article examines how European regionalization influences Ukrainian public universities by exploring the Ukrainian education strategy and institutional internationalization and marketing policies. The study outlines specific historical and geopolitical conditions that have determined the development of the higher education system in Ukraine. Using a case study, the author analyses university development policies within regional, national, and local environments and examines challenges to and supports for the implementation of these policies. The analysis shows how the combined conflicting influences of the Bologna Process and Soviet legacies have affected Ukrainian universities. The article relies on the study results obtained before the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. However, it also offers analysis of higher education internationalization reforms during the recent events of the Russia-Ukraine war.
References
Academic Council of National Aviation University. (2018). Development Strategy of National Aviation University by 2030. National Aviation University. https://nau.edu.ua/en/site/variables/docs/Quality%20Assurance/2019/University/Strategija_NAU_2019_eng11.pdf
Academic Council of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. (2016). Stratehichny plan rozvytku Ternopilskoho Natsionalnoho Pedahogichnoho Universytetu imeni Volodymyra Hnatiuka [Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University`s Development Strategy from 2016 till 2025]. Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. http://tnpu.edu.ua/about/public_inform/upload/2015/stratehija_rozvytku_TNPU.pdf
Academic Council of Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University. (2019). Stratehia rozvytku Zhytomyrskoho Derzhavnoho Universytetu imeni Ivana Franka na 2020-2025 roky [Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University’s Development Strategy from 2020 till 2025]. Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University. https://zu.edu.ua/offic/strateg_zu.pdf
Beckert, J. (2010). Institutional isomorphism revisited: Convergence in institutional change. Sociological Theory, 28(2), 150-166. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9558.2010.01369.x
Blyzniuk, A. (2020, March-April). Pershy misiatz’ viiny u ZDU imeni Ivana Franka [The first month of war in ZIFSU]: An interview with Halyna Kyrychuk. Universum, http://eprints.zu.edu.ua/34092/1/172-173_universum.pdf
Bologna Follow-Up Group. (2022). Statement to all BFUG delegations and consultative members on consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. http://www.ehea.info/page-ADOPTION-OF-THE-STATEMENT
DiMaggio, P. J., & Powell, W. W. (1983). The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. American Sociological Review, 48, 147-160. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2095101
Dziuba, I. M. (1998). Internatsionalizm chy rusyfikatsiia? [Internationalism or russification?]. Publishing House “KM Academia,” http://litopys.org.ua/idzuba/dz.htm
European Higher Education Area (EHEA). (1999). The Bologna Declaration of 19 June 1999. Observatory Magna Charta Universitatum. http://www.magna-charta.org/resources/files/bologna_declaration.pdf
European Higher Education Area (EHEA). (2009). Leuven Communique: The Bologna Process 2020 – The European Higher Education Area in the new decade. http://www.ehea.info/media.ehea.info/file/2009_Leuven_Louvain-la-Neuve/06/1/Leuven_Louvain-la-Neuve_Communique_April_2009_595061.pdf
European Higher Education Area (EHEA). (2020). Rome Ministerial Communique, November 19. https://ehea2020rome.it/storage/uploads/5d29d1cd-4616-4dfe-a2af-29140a02ec09/BFUG_Final_Draft_Rome_Communique-link.pdf
Gomilko, O., Svyrydenko, D., & Terepyshchyi, S. (2016). Hybridity in the higher education of Ukraine: Global logic or local idiosyncrasy? Philosophy & Cosmopology, 17, 177–199. http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2016-17/PC_vol_17-177-199.pdf
Hall, P., & Taylor, R. (1996). Political science and the three new institutionalisms. Political Studies,44(5), 936–957. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1996.tb00343.x
Haran, O. (2013). Ukraine: Pluralism by default, revolution, thermidor. Russian Social Science Review, 54(3), 68–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/10611428.2013.11065513
Kabanets, Y. (2022, June 23). Vplyv viyny na vyshchu osvitu v Ukrayini: vyklyky ta perspektyvy [The impact of the war on higher education in Ukraine: challenges and prospects]. Cedos, https://cedos.org.ua/events/vplyv-vijny-na-vyshhu-osvitu-v-ukrayiny-vyklyky-ta-perspektyvy/
Kostrobiy, P., & Rashkevych, Y. (2017). Ukrainska vyshcha osvita u 1991–2013 rokah: Uspihy ta porazky reform [Ukrainian higher education in 1991–2013: Success and failures of reforms]. In E. B. Nikolaeva (Ed.), Higher education in Ukraine: The agenda for reforms (pp. 14–19). Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
Kremen, V., & Nikolajenko, S. (2006). Higher Education in Ukraine. UNESCO-CEPES.
Kubicek, P. (2008). The history of Ukraine. Greenwood Press.
Kumber, Y. (2022, July 6). Navchannya v umovakh viyny. U Minosvity rozpovily, yak pratsyuvatymutʹ shkoly ta universytety [Education in conditions of war. The Ministry of Education explained how schools and universities would work]. NV, https://nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/events/shkoli-2022-2023-u-ministerstvi-utochnili-yak-prohoditime-navchannya-novini-ukrajini-50254727.html
Kvit, S. (2017, October 25). Reformyvannya vyshchoi osvity v Ukraini [Reforming higher education in Ukraine]. Osvita, https://dt.ua/EDUCATION/reformuvannya-vischoyi-osviti-v-ukrayini-257581_.html
Lobur Y., & Prokopiv A. (2022, September 14). Pary onlain i oflain, a za potreby – v ukryttia [Classes online and offline, and if necessary – in a bombshelter] [Video]. Syspil’ne Ternopil. https://tnpu.edu.ua/news/7643/
Lunyachek, V. E. (2017). The post-Soviet syndrome of Ukrainian education: Administrative issues. Public Policy and Administration, 16(1), 81-90. https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.16.1.18015
Madzhumdar, O. (2022, March, 22). Bezkoshtovne navchannya ta robota. Yak yevropeysʹki universytety dopomahayutʹ ukrayintsyam [Free education and work. How European universities help Ukrainians]. RBC – Ukraine, https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/travel/besplatnoe-obuchenie-rabota-evropeyskie-universitety-1647887044.html
Marginson, S., & Rhoades, G. (2002). Beyond national states, markets, and systems of higher education: A glonacal agency heuristic. Higher Education, 43, 281–309. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014699605875
Meyer, J. W., & Rowan, B. (1977). Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony. American Journal of Sociology, 83(2), 340–363. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2778293
Motyl, O. (2022, March 8). Viiny tvoriat’ natsii, a narodni viiny tvoriat’ neperemozhni natsii [Wars create nations, and people’s wars create invincible nations]. Local History. https://localhistory.org.ua/texts/kolonki/viini-tvoriat-natsiyi-a-narodni-viini-tvoriat-neperemozhni-natsiyi/
Myshchyshyn, I. (2008). Natsionalna ideia ta reformuvannia osvity v Ukraini [National idea and educational reforms in Ukraine]. Visnyk Lvivskoho Universytetu, 23, 3–9.
Nikolaev, E. (2017). Shcho zrobleno do tretioi richnyci novogo zakony pro vyshchu osvitu? [What has been done by the third anniversary of a new law on higher education?]. In E. B. Nikolaeva (Ed.), Higher education in Ukraine: The agenda for reforms (pp. 20–27). Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
Oleksiyenko, A. (2018). Zones of alienation in global higher education: Corporate abuse and leadership failures. Tertiary Education and Management, 24(3), 193-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/13583883.2018.1439095
Oleksiyenko, A. (2021). On politics in comparative and international higher education. Revista Española De Educación Comparada, (40), 50–68. https://doi.org/10.5944/reec.40.2022.31203
Osipian, A. L. (2014). Transforming university governance in Ukraine: Collegiums, bureaucracies, and political institutions. Higher Education Policies, 27, 65–84. https://doi.org/10.1057/hep.2013.14
Parliamentary Assembly. (2012). The consolidation and international openness of the European Higher Education Area. https://pace.coe.int/en/files/19165/html
Pfeffer, J. & Salancik, G. R. (2003). The external control of organizations: A resource dependence perspective. Stanford Business Books.
Pierson, P. (2000). Increasing returns, path dependence, and the study of politics. The American Political Science Review, 94(2), 251–267. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2586011
Ponomarevsky, S. B. (2012). Nacionalni cinnosti ta formuvannia ih zasobamy osvity v emovah ukrainskoho zakordonnia [National values and their formation by means of education in the context of Ukrainians abroad]. Pedagofichny dyskurs, 11, 250–254.
President of Ukraine (2002, April 17). Ukaz Presedenta Ukrainy “Pro Natsionalnu Doktrynu rozvytku osvity” [Decree of the President of Ukraine “On the National Doctrine on the Development of Education]. No. 347/2002, https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/347/2002
President of Ukraine (2013, June 25). Ukaz Presedenta Ukrainy “Pro Natsionalnu strategiu rozvytku osvity v Ukraini na period do 2021 roku” [Decree of the President of Ukraine “On the National Strategy for the Development of Education in Ukraine for the period until 2021]. No. 344/2013, https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/344/2013
Rector of National Aviation University. (2018). Context of National Aviation University. National Aviation University.
Rector of National Aviation University. (2022). Nakaz “Pro organisatsiyni ta kontrol’ni zakhody u neparnykh semestrakh 2022-2023 navchal’noho roku” [Order “On organizational and control measures in the odd semesters of the 2022-2023 academic year”]. https://nau.edu.ua/ua/news/2022/11/nakaz-pro-organizitsiyni-ta-kontrolni-zahodi-u-neparnih-semestrah-2022-2023-navchalnogo-roku.html
Rees, J. (2022, June 14). Beyond the West: Nationalism, religious literacy, and the war in Ukraine. Contending Modernities. https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/beyond-the-west-nationalism-religious-literacy-and-the-war-in-ukraine/
Rozenas, A., & Zhukov, Y. (2019). Mass repression and political loyalty: Evidence from Stalin’s ‘Terror by Hunger’. American Political Science Review, 113(2), 569-583. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055419000066
Shevtsova, M. (2022). Looking for Stepan Bandera: The myth of Ukrainian nationalism and the Russian ‘special operation.’Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, 16(3), 132-150. https://doi.org/10.51870/GWWS9820
Skrypnyk, A. (2022, September, 19). Yak pratsyuyutʹ universytety na liniyi vohnyu [How universities work in the line of fire]. ZN, Ua, https://zn.ua/ukr/EDUCATION/jak-pratsjujut-universiteti-na-liniji-vohnju.html
Slobodian, O., & Stadnyi, E. (2016, December 13). Ukrayins'ki studenty za kordonom: Skil'ky ta chomu? [Ukrainian students abroad: How many and why?]. CEDOS, https://www.cedos.org.ua/uk/articles/ukrainski-studenty-za-kordonom-skilky-ta-chomu
Smolentseva, A., Huisman, J., & Froumin, I. (2018). Transformation of higher education institutional landscape in post-Soviet countries: From Soviet model to where? In J. Huisman, A. Smolentseva, & I. Froumin (Eds.), 25 years of transformations of higher education systems in post-Soviet countries (pp. 1-44). Palgrave Macmillan.
Sovsun, I. (2017). Novyi poriadok dennyi dlia vyshchoi osvity v Ukraini: Pershyi etap zmin [New agenda for higher education in Ukraine: Changes at the first stage]. In E. B. Nikolaeva (Ed.), Higher education in Ukraine: The agenda for reforms (pp. 4–13). Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
Strategic Advisory Committee “Education” (2014). Proekt kontseptsii rozvytku osvity Ukrainy na period 2015-2025 rokiv [The project of the strategy of the development of Ukrainian education for 2015-2025]. http://tnpu.edu.ua/EKTS/proekt_koncepc.pdf
Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. (n.d.). History of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. Retrieved June 25, 2018, from http://tnpu.edu.ua/en/about/history/
Ukrainian Global University. (n.d.). Ukrainian Global University: World's Best Educational Opportunities to Rebuild Ukraine. Retrieved November 16, 2022, from https://uglobal.university/
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. (1996). Zakon Ukrainy “Pro osvitu” [Law of Ukraine “On education”]. No. 100.96-BP, http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/100/96
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. (2017). Zakon Ukrainy “Pro osvitu” [Law of Ukraine “On education”]. No. 38-39, http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2145-19
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. (2002). Zakon Ukrainy “Pro vushchu osvitu” [Law of Ukraine “On higher education”]. No. 2984-III, http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2984-14
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. (2014). Zakon Ukrainy “Pro vushchu osvitu” [Law of Ukraine “On higher education”]. No. 1556-VII, https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1556-18
Wynnyckyi, M. (2015). New management challenges for Ukraine’s universities: Surviving the 2014 reform. University Education, 3, 66–72. https://kneu.edu.ua
Zakharchuk, N. (2020). Contextualizing the development of Ukrainian higher education: Between Soviet legacies and European regionalization. East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 7 (2): 173-199. doi:10.21226/ewjus616
Zakharchuk, N. (2021). Transforming university governance in the context of the Bologna Process: A case study of Ukrainian higher education [Doctoral dissertation, University of Saskatchewan]. Harvest. https://harvest.usask.ca/items/a7b4f82f-eff1-4072-83d0-7a8519cbba76
Zharykova, A. (2022, October 5). Za kordonom perebuvayutʹ do 3 milʹyoniv ukrayintsiv pratsezdatnoho viku – Minekonomiky [Up to 3 million Ukrainians of working age are abroad - Ministry of Economy]. Ukrainian Truth, https://www.epravda.com.ua/news/2022/10/5/692265/
Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University. (n.d.). Our university nowadays. Retrieved June 25, 2018, from https://zu.edu.ua/en_nova.html
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
The findings, interpretations, conclusions, and views expressed in Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education (JCIHE) are entirely those of the authors and should not be attributed in any manner to CIES, HESIG, or the sponsoring universities of the Editorial Staff. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License. Readers are free to copy, display, and distribute articles that appear in JCIHE as long as the work is attributed to the author(s) and JCIHE, it is distributed for non-commercial purposes only, and no alteration or transformation is made in the work. All other uses must be approved by the author(s) or JCIHE. By submitting a manuscript, authors agree to transfer without charge the following rights to JCIHE upon acceptance of the manuscript: first worldwide serial publication rights and the right for JCIHE to grant permissions as its editors judge appropriate for the redistribution of the article, its abstract, and metadata associated with the article in professional indexing and reference services.
