February 2, 2001

Conflicts Over Language Impede Ukraine's Higher-Education System

By BRYON MacWILLIAMS

Corruption also hampers reforms as colleges try to break free from Soviet ways

Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. But that has not meant that the country is free from things Soviet.

The system of higher education is still steeped in the Russian language and stamped with a rigidity that is partial toward the pure sciences at the expense of the social sciences and the humanities. Students use bribes to gain admission or to pass final examinations. Curricula

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