Today, January 24, Rector Yevgeny Trushlyakov delivered a public report to the faculty and students at the Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding.
According to him, 2023 was quite a difficult year due to the war and, in particular, the fact that the university’s main building remains destroyed, and because of the security situation, students were unable to resume in-person classes. However, the university will resume in-person classes in February.
The university community was also stirred by the merger of Mykolaiv National University named after Sukhomlinsky with NUK. Eugeniy Trushliakov that this is an honorable yet challenging mission for the university. The goal is not only to preserve the field of education in the city but also to develop it and make this field more attractive to prospective students. Specifically, it is planned that MNU will join NUK as the Sukhomlinsky Pedagogical Institute. In the near future, NUK will receive a roadmap for this merger, and the legal process of unification will begin.
“We promise to do everything in our power to ensure that the students and faculty of ‘Sukhomlinka’ join our university family and understand that they have not been forgotten, that we will work with them to advance teacher education,” “We will do everything possible to ensure that the teacher education program remains in the Mykolaiv region and that its graduates become the best not only in Mykolaiv,” noted Eugeniy Trushliakov.
During his report, the university president also discussed the reconstruction of the destroyed building, showing a rendering of the restored structure. The university is working closely with the Danish Embassy on this issue, as Denmark has agreed to help restore the university. Furthermore, there are plans to renovate the humanities building. Eugeniy Trushliakov noted the active participation of design students in developing the reconstruction project for the university’s main building.
In terms of financial operations, the total amount of funds received from the state budget to cover expenses in 2023 amounted to 212,607,043 hryvnias for the university as a whole; NUK also received an additional 113 million hryvnias in special-purpose funds, bringing the university’s total funding to a 15% increase compared to 2022. Also in 2023, the university received 6 million hryvnias from the state budget for the reconstruction and major repairs of university buildings damaged as a result of Russian aggression.
Currently, the educational process at NUK is supported by 50 departments (including 8 at the Kharkiv National Institute of Nuclear Energy and 4 at the Pivden National Institute of Nuclear Energy), staffed by 440 faculty members. There are 8,211 students enrolled in the structural units of NUK. At the same time, the total number of international students as of the end of 2023 is 1,226. In 2023, NUK maintained its position in the TOP 10 higher education institutions in Ukraine by number of international students and in the TOP 10 technical universities; NUK also ranks second among Ukrainian universities in terms of the number of international students enrolled in part-time and distance learning programs and first among all higher education institutions in Ukraine in terms of the number of international students enrolled in dual-degree programs!
During the 2022–2023 academic year, seven students from the National University of Kyiv were recommended for personalized academic scholarships in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements. The students actively participate in various academic competitions, contests, and events.
NUK has also successfully passed a recertification audit of its quality management system for compliance with the requirements of ISO 9001:2015, completing its third certification cycle. A recertification audit of NUK’s quality management system will be conducted in January 2024.
Eugeniy Trushliakov that the university is actively engaged in international activities, collaborating with higher education institutions in China and European universities. Even under martial law, NUK did not neglect its humanitarian efforts, providing food, drinking water, medicine, clothing, hygiene supplies, and much more to staff, students, and their families. In addition, the NUK humanitarian headquarters provided assistance to residents of the cities of Mykolaiv and Kherson and to local communities in these regions, as well as to medical facilities.
NUK places great emphasis on the development of youth initiatives in various areas of public life, the self-fulfillment of young people, the fostering of active citizenship, and other related areas.
The NUK faculty and staff approved Rector Yevhen Trushlyakov’s report, giving it a positive assessment, as the NUK university community has withstood and continues to steadfastly withstand all the hardships of war; it has successfully adapted the educational process to the demands of wartime and retained its student body, who continue their studies in various formats. In addition, NUK has fulfilled all its obligations to foreign partners, as well as all legal and financial obligations regarding payments for utilities and energy, salaries, and scholarships.
In conclusion, Eugeniy Trushliakov that this year will also be challenging due to reduced funding; however, despite this, NUK will once again be able to prove that it is the best university in Mykolaiv.
