The Ministry of Education and Culture canceled the license of Mykolaiv Polytechnic after the inspection

Mykolaiv Polytechnic, photo from open sources

The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, after an unscheduled inspection, canceled the license of the Higher Educational Institution «International Technological University «Mykolaiv Polytechnic» to conduct educational activities.

This is stated in the order of the Ministry of Education and Culture dated November 5, which was published on his Telegram channel by the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Public Control of the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine, Denys Zhelo.

Order of the Ministry of Education and Culture, signed by Minister Oksen Lisov dated November 5, a document from the telegrams of the Denys Zhelo channel

The order of the Ministry of Education and Culture, signed by Minister Oksen Lisov, dated November 5, a document from the telegrams of the Denys Zhelo channel

Order of the Ministry of Education and Culture, signed by Minister Oksen Lisov dated November 5, a document from the telegrams of the Denys Zhelo channel

However, the document has not yet been made public on the ministry's website. In the press center of the Ministry of Education, the editors of NikVesti explained that the document was not received for publication, because this section was closed on the website by the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers at the beginning of the war.

The document itself states that the facility was inspected on October 30. In his post, Denys Zhelo points out that prior to this, employees of the Office of Strategic Investigations in the Mykolaiv Region detained Serhii Tkachenko for selling the university rector's diploma.

«For a separate reward, bypassing the legal procedure for admission to higher education institutions, Tkachenko enrolled men conscripted into full-time education. The number of new students shocked even the ministerial commission,» writes Zhelo.

In the document itself, there are about a thousand students of bachelors, junior specialists and specialists, although the last levels of education were abolished in 2016.

Note that according to Opendatabot, «Mykolaiv Polytechnic International University of Technology» is a private institution founded in 2003 with a charter capital of 50 million hryvnias. In 2023, the university's income amounted to almost 9.5 million hryvnias.

Since October, Yevheniia Poliakova has been the head of the institution.