28 February 2011, 10:11
Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, appealed to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, with a request to investigate the situation with scholarship payment in numerous higher education establishments in different regions of Ukraine.
M. Tomenko announced that he had received appeals of students of higher education establishments concerning the fact that administrations of several universities refused to pay scholarship to all the students who passed the exams, or cut down the rate of scholarship. According to the students´ appeals, administrations of the higher education establishments mentioned the fact that the Ministry of Science, Education, Youth and Sports of Ukraine failed to provide universities with necessary funds to pay scholarship, so they had to cut down the rate of scholarship and "limit" the number of scholarship holders to 70% of the number of government-subsidized students.
Among such universities, Mykola Tomenko mentioned Kyiv National University of Technology and Design, Lviv National Academy of Arts, Vinnytsia National Technical University, Dnipropetrovsk National Rail Transport University, Ternopil Ivan Puliui National Technical University and others.
According to M. Tomenko, these facts are especially cynical, considering the claims of the Ministry of Science to raise the quality of education and implement reforms. "They fail to perform their direct obligations instead", M.Tomenko admitted.
The Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament appealed to the Prosecutor General with a request to protect the students´ rights and respond to the situation with the payment of scholarships.