Photo ZACHID.NET. Abolished the requirement of proficiency in the national universities in the country. They are protesting the university. Resignation rectors close to the opposition.
examination of Italian literature in German. From today, in the Italian universities, you can. To decide this, a DDL, strongly backed by the Ministry of University and Research, Mariastella Gelmini, which eliminated the requirement to use the language of Dante in academic tests. In addition, the owner of the MIUR has some rectors resigned, accused of belonging all'opposizione, e di simpatizzare per la neonata corrente finiana. Ovviamente, è tutto falso. In Italia, però. Purtroppo, esiste un Paese europeo, geograficamente nemmeno troppo lontano, ove l'agghiacciante quadro sopra descritto sta distruggendo il sistema scolastico locale.
Il Consiglio dei Ministri di Kyiv, nella giorata di giovedi, 28 luglio, ha eliminato l'obbligo dell'esame di lingua ucraina. Redatta di persona dal ministro dell'Istruzione, Dmytro Tabachnyk, la legge N642 libera studenti e dottorandi dall'esame obbligatorio nell'idioma nazionale. Una decisione pericolosa per il mantenimento, e lo svluppo, dell'ucraino, sepre più minacciato dall'ingobrante compresenza del russo. Che, a seguito delle svariate forced Russification policies of the past, implemented by tsarism first, and then by the Soviet regime, is now widespread among the majority of the population. Instead, the Ukraine, despite its status as a national language, guaranteed by the constitution, is spoken mainly in western regions, it is mandatory in public offices, and, most recently, was the target of measures diascriminatori. Last but not least, the cutting of funds for books, newspapers and magazines in the language of Shevchenko - Taras, the national poet.
Many in the academic world have demonstrated against the N642. Sit-ins and initiatives have taken place in major cities across the country, especially in Kyiv, the political capital, Kharkiv, the university, and Lviv, one of Galicia. Right in the capital of Piedmont in the country - a bit 'a Ukrainian Florence as the cradle of language and national culture - the protest was stronger than elsewhere. On Monday, August 9, was held a garrison of students and researchers at the State University before "-Ivan Franko." Whose rector, Ivan Vakarchuk, criticized the government decision, taken aback by the speed with which it was approved without any comparison with academia or with university representatives. In addition, the former Education Minister Tymoshenko's second government has expressed its concerns before the growing asymmetry sources of scientific information and scholarly literature in favor of Russian.
"To draw a parallel with the story - said Vakarchuk - the decree of the government reminds me of the circular Valujevskij [which, in 1863, the Russian Empire banned literature in the Ukrainian-AG] and Ukaz Ems [by which Czar Alexander II expanded the restrictions of the circular Valujevskij, nda]. The Ukrainian government must not remain indifferent before the appearance today of education and culture., let alone nurture hatred towards everything that is Ukrainian. In particularly in respect of the language. A short-sighted attitude. And, above all, irresponsible people that before an executive should also represent and protect. "
A lift is also another university town, the Ukrainian Catholic University. In a note issued Monday, August 9, the rector, Borys Gudzjak, expressed grave concern at the climate of lack of dialogue and total intolerance established by the government. In addition, Gudziak has appealed to the other deans and directors of universities, especially in the eastern regions, to form a common front in defense of national culture. A battle, as expressly stated, which is not affected by the plan merely political, but concerned the training of academics of the future.
"Instead of a wise government and personify manager - reports the statement - the government is acting in the throes of a substantial ucrainofobia. Ours is a principled stand. While in America we try to extend the right to study in the Russian Federation funds for education were increased. This means looking to the future. In Ukraine, however, are returning to the nineteenth century, when the national language was prohibited, and hampered its use, even in private. All this, despite the Constitution confers the status of Ukrainian language of universal communication system within the borders of the country. The Ukrainian Catholic University has a moral duty to require that, within academia, the language issue is addressed in a serious and responsible. At our university, in agreement with our international focus, are active research projects in foreign languages, including English, German, Italian, Russian and Polish. However, we believe that education in the country should continue to be predominantly official idiom, Ukraine.
But not only the national language. End up in the crosshairs of the government, and its "reform" schools, are also academics with a high cultural profile. Rei, according to the executive, to be politically close to the opposition. In the day Wednesday, August 4, was purged, the rector of the University of Odessa "Mechnykov, Valentyn Smyntna. Before him the Minister Tabachnyk has resigned as University of Donetsk, Volodymyr Shevchenko, and the botany of Uman, Mykhajlo Martynenko. Officially, the end of concratto.
A justification that did not convince the opposition. Which, by the voice of deputy Lesja Orobec ', reported the reoccurrence of a climate of political discrimination, similar to that of the thirties, when the Soviet authorities sought to neutralize the Ukrainian intelligentsia, against the communist regime and pro-independence national.
"The purpose of the government - said the parliamentary Ukrajina Nasha - is the return of ways to control the entire Soviet sphere of national education. Universities are only the first step. The next to be hit will be the directors of high schools and colleges, appointed under the government of Tymoshenko and Yushchenko administration.
Partija Rehioniv Belonging to the political power of the president, Viktor Yanukovych, and the prime minister, Mykola Azarov , last April 3, Dmytro Tabachnyk has declared its intention to establish a commission to revise the history textbooks in use in Ukraine by the next school year. A few days later, he supported the decision of the city to dedicate a Zaporizhzhja monument to Stalin. In the past, the education minister has stood for calling western Ukraine "Poland", and have argued that each could Galician in their lives than to aspire to the job of waiter. In addition, the name of Tabachnyk is among those responsible for the disappearance by the National Center of Lviv of the 44 letters of the first Ukrainian president, Mikhail Hrushevs'kyj. Last March, at the time of the settlement, occurred in his new office, with bodyguards in tow, in charge of implementing controls on a rug and breaks records for employees: a climate of terror, which caused the immediate resignation of ' then vice minister, Pavlo Poljans'kyj.
Matthew Cazzulani
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