Three days ago, the president of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Tymofiy Mylovanov, announced that he was preparing a request to the Ministry of Education and Science to buy the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The acting president of the Kyiv Aviation Institute (KAI, formerly NAU), Ksenia Semenova, said that she was thinking about this.
Three days ago, the president of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Tymofiy Mylovanov, announced that he was preparing a request to the Ministry of Education and Science to buy the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The acting president of the Kyiv Aviation Institute (KAI, formerly NAU), Ksenia Semenova, said that she was thinking about this.
«Full privatization has risks,» said Ksenia Semenova, according to Forbes.
Recall, on September 6, 2024, the Cabinet of Ministers issued an order that the National Aviation University (NAU), now the Kyiv Aviation Institute, is changing its organizational and legal form and becoming a state non-profit enterprise.
The Acting President of the KAI noted that often, when any state assets are privatized, the value for the person who acquires this property is, for example, the land assets of the institution, and not the development of the scientific community or the improvement of the learning process. «Therefore, we need to think about what changes can be made to the management mechanism in the higher education system so that they do not lead to the division of property and the destruction of higher education itself,» Ksenia Semenova emphasized.
However, Semenova confirms that changes in the management of higher education institutions are needed, and this may not only involve privatization. In her opinion, we need to start with corporate management reform.
According to Ksenia Semenova, higher education institutions that do not specialize in strategic industries and have limited property may be subject to privatization. An option for the development of such institutions, she adds, could be the creation of a branch of a foreign university on their basis.
