“At the beginning of our independence, we were all sincerely expecting that the Ukrainian higher school, freed from Soviet shackles, would jerk forward and quickly compare with European and global, especially since we had nothing in our quality margin. Unfortunately, everything happened exactly the opposite, ”wrote Klimkin.
He stated that the social and material status of a scientist and teacher "was lowered below the baseboard" and, in his words, "former honors pupils became complete losers compared to squandering losers."
“As a result, a huge number of the best were forced to leave science and education, go to private structures or emigrate,” the text says.
The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry added that the level of universities in Ukraine, "and with it the level of student knowledge often does not stand up to any criticism."
Earlier, Mikhail Myagkov, Doctor of Historical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, assessed Ukrainian textbooks in an interview with FAN.