The Round Table Discussion “Post-war reconstruction of higher education: International experience and Weltanschauung and methodological foundations”
On November 18, 2024, the Institute of Higher Education of the NAES of Ukraine in accordance with the program of cooperation between the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, together with the Institute for Demography and Life Quality Problems of the NAS of Ukraine held a “round table discussion” on the topic “Post-war reconstruction of higher education: International experience and Weltanschauung and methodological foundations.”
The purpose of the event was to discuss the current strategies for the renovation of higher education in the post-war period, in accordance with the Action Plan of the NAES of Ukraine for the implementation of the Recommendations of the hearings of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Education, Science and Innovation on the topic “Restoration of education in the de-occupied territories” and the Roadmap for the implementation of the Strategy of cognitive de-occupation of Crimea.
More than thirty academic fellows and high school teachers, post-graduate students, managers and representatives of academic community tool par in the discussion in hybrid mode, online and offline. Particularly, there were representatives of National Transport University, Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies of Lviv, Ukrainian State University named after Mykhaylo Dragomanov, Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, Kyiv Taras Shevcnenko National University, University of Educational Management et al.
In the course of the event, pedagogical, demographic, economic, philosophical, exiological and legal aspects of the post-war renovation of higher education in Ukraine have been discussed. Separate reports were made by Olexandr Gladun (Dr. Hab. in Economics, senior researcher, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, deputy director for scientific work of the Institute for Demography and Life Quality Problems of the NAS of Ukraine), Olena Otych (Dr. Hab. in Pedagogy, professor, chief researcher of the department of interaction of higher education and the labor market of the Institute of Higher Education), Dmytro Shushpanov (Dr. Hab. in Economics, professor, head of the department of demographic modeling and forecasting of the Institute for Demography and Life Quality Problems), Yurii Mielkov (Dr. Hab. in Philosophy, senior researcher, chief researcher of the department of social and institutional transformations in higher education of the Institute of Higher Education), Oleksii Poznyak (Ph.D. in Economics, senior researcher, head of the migration research sector of the Institute for Demography and Life Quality Problems), Yurii Vitrenko (Ph.D. on Economics, ass. prof., the Honorable economist of Ukraine, leading research fellow of the department of social and institutional transformations in higher education of the Institute of Higher Education).
Based on the materials of the round table discussion, a resolution and a number of recommendations are being prepared.