Friday, December 15, 2017

Most researchers think state of science in Ukraine deteriorates at alarming rate

Data from sociologists show that 52% of Ukrainian scientists think the Ukrainian government and businesses do not have need of their engineering developments, whereas international corporations take a keen interest in them. Reportedly, 64% of boffins from 35 research institutions based in Kiev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa and Lvov tell pollsters that the general state of science in Ukraine is deteriorating at an alarming rate.

In the poll conducted by the sociological group Rating 47% of scientists believe science is developing, thanks to a contribution made by individual researchers and inventors. Importantly, 60% of the respondents pointed out that medicine needs desperately scientific innovations.

By comparison, American universities spend up to 75% of their budgets on administrators, many of whom have outsized incomes. According to Paul Craig Roberts, chairman of the U.S. Institute for Political Economy, the purpose of education today is to pass some test. School accreditation and teachers' pay depend not on developing the creativity or independent thinking of those students capable of it, but on herding them through memory work for a standardized test.

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