摘要：There is a great need for action with regards to reforming the Ukrainian higher education system. However, the exact nature of such reforms in terms of structure and content is a contested matter. It becomes evident in an analysis of current legislative reform endeavours that some of them are guided by Western European standards such as strengthening university autonomy, safeguarding freedom of research and encouraging scientific transfer, whilst others are oriented towards (post)Soviet traditions such as centralization, pronounced hierarchies and a mere focus on teaching. The key question to be dealt with in this article is: Which underlying, still active, productive ideological patterns are preventing a restructuring of the Ukrainian higher education system oriented towards Bologna and accordingly Western standards?
关键词：higher education reform in Ukraine; analysis of current legislative endeavours; new tendencies in higher education politics; academic freedom; Bologna process; corruption.
