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🎓⚖️ After two court defeats, the Ministry of Education wants to legislatively regulate the consolidation of universities — by the end of 2027 year they plan to merge at least six more institutions
🏛📑 Education Minister Andriy Butenko proposed drafting a bill that would set the criteria for forced consolidation of universities. According to him, previous reorganizations provoked numerous court disputes and inconsistent practice. At present this is only a legislative initiative, not newly adopted rules.
⚖️🔎 In July and September 2026 the Kyiv District Administrative Court found unlawful and annulled the decisions to attach Uman State Pedagogical University to Uman National University and the Odesa Law Academy, run by the controversial Serhiy Kivalov, to Mechnikov University. Back in 2024 the Accounting Chamber determined that the Ministry of Education carried out the reform without approved criteria for selecting universities. The court decisions were made at first instance.
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