European University lost accreditation due to the Crimean issue – RBC

Nicholas Vakhtin acting rector of the European University in St. Petersburg Photo: Sergey Kulikov / Interpress

Rosobrnadzor fully suspended the state accreditation of higher education programs at the European University in St. Petersburg. This was reported at the site office with an explanation that the accreditation is suspended as a result of the university test.

The report also states that in the case of deprivation of state accreditation institution is required to provide a translation of the students in other universities.

However, the European university administration is not inclined to dramatize the situation. “From 14 to 18 March in the EUSP held Rosobrnadzor check. This review has identified a number of violations in a number of formal documents accompanying the learning process (the rules of admission, teaching materials, etc.), as well as on the website of EUSP (not mandatory by law, the information is available or it is not in those sections of the site, and so on. P.). On March 31, EUSP Rosobrnadzor received an order to suspend the state accreditation EUSP “, – said on the university website

Acting.. university rector Nikolai Vakhtin in conversation with “Fontakoy” explained that the reason for suspending the accreditation was, in particular, the fact that the university rules are not spelled out the conditions for receipt of the Crimean population. Recall that the residents of the peninsula has the right to enter Russian universities with Ukrainian documents. The requirement to register it in the charters of schools was enshrined in a special government decree. To eliminate this and other violations at the European University has a month, which, according to N.Vahtina, enough.

The report Rosobrnadzor states that in case of suspension or withdrawal of state accreditation of the university, he can still maintain educational activities, but shall not be entitled to issue to graduates of state diplomas and can not guarantee student deferment from military service.

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European University was founded in 1994 with the support of the first mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak. Now on the five faculties of the University trained about 250 people.

The first years of its existence the University has in fact existed for grants MacArthur Foundation, Ford and Soros (in 2015 these organizations were considered undesirable in Russia), in later it was established endowment Fund, donors of which were Russian and Western funds, as well as large companies. According to the MacArthur Foundation, from 2002 to 2015, funding for the EUSP was $ 5.05 million. With the funding claims Rosobrnadzor unrelated, Lisitsyn said.

The Board of Trustees of the university include former Deputy Prime Minister, head of the Committee of Civil Initiatives Alexei Kudrin.