The Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program (CUPP), the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa, Katedra Foundation and CUSF
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CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CANADA-UKRAINE PROGRAMME PARLEMENTAIRE ÏÀÐËÀÌÅÍÒÀÐÍÀ ÏÐÎÃÐÀÌÀ ÊÀÍÀÄÀ-ÓÊÐÀ¯ÍÀ Established in 1990, CUPP was Canada's First Program of Assistance to Ukraine AUTUMN 2012 In this issue... A Gorillia has joined the elephant in the room Why we don't like Ukraine Dictatorship will not lead to prosperity Ukrainians in Irkutsk CUPP in Third Decade CUPP 2012 NEWSLETTER 2012 CUPP NEWSLETTER A "Gorilla" Has Joined the Elephant in the Room! ...............................................3 CUPP Interns ..............................................4 Why We Don't Like Ukraine ....................31 Is Ukraine's Youth Plunging Into Deep Career Individualism?.............................34 Implication of the Fact that a Significant Number of Ukraine's Population do not Consider Themselves Ukrainian Either in the National or Civic Sense .......................35 Etude About Post-crisis Ukraine: Seven Main Challenges – Opportunities ...........38 Wither the Bologna Process: The Coming Educational Crisis in Ukraine .................42 The CUPP Alumni Planned a Series of Conferences to Create a new Model of Governance for Ukraine ..........................44 Do Ukrainian Universities Need Autonomy? ..............................................46 Quo Vadis, Україно? – намагались On October 24, 2011, the first Ukrainian Day on the HILL took place in the House відповісти в Оксфорді ........................52 of Commons. Captioned are CUPP 2011 Interns who performed a concert in the Ukraine Loses Its Way.............................56 Rotunda of Centre Block for MPs, staff and visitors. Balcerowicz: Dictatorship Will Not Lead to Prosperity ............................................57 Бальцерович: диктатура не призводить до процвітання ..............60 Orwell's 'Animal Farm" and Ukrainian Refugees ...................................................64 History of CUPP to work and study in the Canadian Par- "Ukraine at the Crossroads" ...................65 th liament, and gain experience from which On July 16 , 1990, the Ukrainian generations of Canadian, American and Ukrainians of Irkutsk – A Part of Parliament adopted the Declaration of Multiethnic Siberian Society ...................68 West European students have benefit- Sovereignty which declared that Parlia- ed. On the basis of academic excel- Russian Youth's Pllitical Conderns .......70 ment recognized the need to build the Electoral systerms in Ukraine. Our lence, knowledge of the English or Ukrainian state based on the Rule of French and Ukrainian languages, and Experience and Our Prospects ..............72 Law. On August 24, 1991, the Ukrainian The Overbearing Governmental Regula- on interest in the parliamentary system tion of the Economy as an Inhibiting Parliament adopted the Declaration of of government, university students from Factor on Democratic Development of Independence, which the citizens of Ukraine can apply for a CUPP scholar- Ukraine .....................................................73 Ukraine endorsed in the referendum of ship. It is hoped that CUPP will contrib- The Value of a CUPP Internship in December 1, 1991. Also in 1991, Cana- Canada's Parliament ...............................74 ute to the education of future leaders of dians celebrated the Centennial of Ukraine. A Century of PLAST ................................76 Ukrainian group immigration to Canada. In 2012, during the 22nd year of CUPP Alumni Updates ............................77 To mark the Centennial, organizations CUPP's operation, 33 students arrived Higher Education: East OR West ...........81 planned programs and projects to cele- from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine to EURO 2012: Failure or Success? ..........82 brate this milestone in Canada's history. complete a two-month internship with CUPP Alumni Updates ............................83 The Chair of Ukrainian Studies Members of Parliament, Ministers and Foundation of Toronto decided to mark Where the Land Ends and the Sea Senators (please see Issue 1 of the Begins: the Case of Ukrainian Migration the Centennial by establishing the Can- Newsletter for complete list of CUPP In- to Portugal ................................................84 ada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program for terns). In the course of the Program, the university students from Ukraine. The Interns meet with political and social Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program opinion-leaders of Canada. Contact Us gives Ukrainian students an opportunity Chair of Ukrainian Studies Foundation 620 Spadina Avenue Toronto, Ontario, The image of the Canadian Parliament (Centre Block of the House of Com- Canada M5S 2H4 mons) is a 19th century engraving by an unknown artist. Photo Credit of the Tel.: (416) 234-9111 engraving to The Devil's Artisan: A Journal of the Printing Arts. Colour Fax: (416) 234-9114 separation design by Kristina Hicks a student at the Ontario College of Art and Design University of Toronto. Cover Design by Andrei Bezruchonak, www.KATEDRA.org CUPP 2012 Intern from Belarus. 2 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CUPP 2012 NEWSLETTER CUPP in Third Decade 20th THE CHAIR OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES year of CUPP The Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program (CUPP), the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa, Katedra Foundation and CUSF are pleased to invite you to: Ottawa MODEL UKRAINE Conference: The Politics of Education and Elections in Ukraine November 12 & 13, 2010 Desmarais Hall, Room 12102 (12th Floor) 55 Laurier Ave East, University of Ottawa campus PUBLIC LECTURE, IN ENGLISH. FREE ADMISSION. PLEASE REGISTER, AS SEATING IS LIMITED. CHAIR OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES Please RSVP to < [email protected] > before Wednesday, November 10, 2010. 613 562-5800 ext. 3692 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM 41 CUPP in Third Decade CUPP 2012 NEWSLETTER Do Ukrainian Universities Need Autonomy? Pavlo SHOPIN CUPP 2006, 2008 Walter Tarnopolsky Scholarship recipient, Mazurenko Family Scholarship recipient MP: Michael Ignatieff, Ontario (Etobicoke–Lakeshore) MP: Andrew Telegdi, Ontario (Kitchener–Waterloo) B.A. and M.A. in English from Taras Shevchenko National University of Luhansk in 2008 Fulbright Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley in 2009-2010 Internt in the German Bundestag in 2011 M.Phil. in European Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge The following speech on the Ukrainian will make them accountable to society. ingless small institutions and it will not education system was presented be- The European Commission, the Coun- damage the education system but fore the CUPP Alumni and participants cil of the European Union and a lot of rather improve its efficiency and ac- of the Ottawa Model Ukraine Confer- European governments stress upon countability. ence on Nov. 12, 2010. the need for improved autonomy and It is clear that the University Au- The current Ukrainian higher edu- accountability. Absence of shared tonomy as a concept is really impor- cation system is the product of the governance or rather only its formal tant for the progress of the Ukrainian post-Soviet education politics. As Mr. presence at Ukrainian universities is a education system. Autonomy means Frances Cairncross, rector of Oxford huge setback to higher education in freedom and what it means to be free University's Exeter College, put it Ukraine. In the EU higher education has been a controversial issue for a "Ukrainian education is too inward- institutions "are, traditionally, decen- very long-time. In my talk I will briefly looking, too corrupt, and too poor to do tralized institutions where most of the mention some of the major ideas be- a good job" (Popova 2010). decisions are prepared at the "base"" hind the term "autonomy" and will The Bologna process is viewed in (Weber 2006). However, Ukrainian highlight the procedural practical ap- Ukraine as the necessary set of re- universities suffer from centralization proach, following the latest 2009 re- forms to upgrade Ukrainian higher ed- of power, rigid hierarchy and authori- search by the European University ucation to meet the standards of the tarian management. It is difficult to Association (Esterman and Nokkala European community but this reform speak of our universities as decentral- 2009). I will try to look at organization- concerns only the academic side of ized institutions. Consequently, there al structures and institutional gover- education process and certainly does is much more drastic need for autono- nance, financial issues, staffing and not solve the problems of mismanage- my at Ukrainian universities than in academic matters in Ukraine and oth- ment, corruption and lack of funds. the EU. At the same time, it is crucial er European countries to see if Ukrai- The Bologna Process is meant to inte- to understand what kind of autonomy nian higher education differs in some grate our education system within the Ukrainian universities need in order to key respects. European academic framework which achieve democratic management, According to the research study is only a formal correspondence to the high quality education, forefront re- done by the European University As- existing standards and is not enough search and innovative knowledge- sociation "the terminology used to de- for the essential organizational and based socio-economic development fine elements of institutional autonomy functional progress of Ukrainian edu- for the community. We do not agree as well as the perspectives from which cation. One of the major and existen- that any kind of autonomy is useful. they are viewed and evaluated vary tial