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The Attestation Board of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine is an advisory body of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, which performs the functions of training and attestation of highly qualified scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel assigned to the educational department. According to the Ministry of Education and Science, this body is temporary, and its functions should gradually be transferred to the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance.

One of the main tasks of the Board is to approve decisions of specialised academic councils on awarding academic degrees (candidate and doctor of science) and academic titles (associate professor and professor) to research and teaching staff at universities, postgraduate education institutions and other scientific institutions.

In addition, the Attestation Board is one of the institutions directly responsible for identifying and preventing dishonesty and plagiarism in the higher education system.

History

Established in 2011 to replace the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine, which was dissolved by the President at the end of 2010.

Composition

The board consists of Ukraine's most renowned scientists in key scientific fields. The board is chaired by the head of the Ministry of Education and Science.

Criticism and scandals

Despite frequent criticism of the work of the predecessor of the Attestation Commission (HAC), which was considered a relic of the Soviet era, a number of scholars have also been critical of the newly created body that has taken over some of its functions, arguing that the previous body was more autonomous, in particular because its chair was appointed and dismissed by decree of the President of Ukraine, unlike the newly created body, which is headed by the Minister of Education himself in accordance with the Regulations on this advisory body. Thus, according to Olga Namyasenko, Associate Professor at the Kyiv National Economic University, this is not positive because the position of minister is too political and subject to frequent change.

The activities of the Board have repeatedly been criticised for selectivity in its decisions, in particular due to the absence among the persons deprived of academic degrees and titles by the decisions of the Attestation Board of representatives of political and business circles, against whom the media has repeatedly published documented allegations of plagiarism, as well as other evidence of violations and abuses during the defence of specific dissertations. Thus, in 2016, the Attestation Board was embroiled in a high-profile scandal surrounding the dissertation of the wife of then-Deputy Prime Minister Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, whose decision upheld Kateryna Kyrylenko's doctoral degree in pedagogy, despite numerous appeals to the Ministry of Education and Science regarding plagiarism, while in February 2020, the board's decision revoked the award of the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences to Petro Yushchenko, brother of the third President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko.

In 2012, the first precedent of revoking an academic degree in court arose when the Attestation Board was forced to revoke the decision to award the academic degree of Candidate of Sciences to Ksenia Vasilenko (real name Sonya Koshkina, editor-in-chief of Livyi Bereh) due to a court ruling.