Where corruption among university leaders is rife

By Ararat Osipian. On 26 August 2016, Volodymyr Kharchenko, the acting rector of one of Ukraine’s flagship technical universities, the National Aviation University, was arrested in his office for taking a bribe of €170,000, which is roughly equivalent to US$200,000. In a country where the average salary is the equivalent of a meagre US$100 a month, this sum sounds astronomical. Read more...