Students of the Faculty of Training Specialists for Pretrial Investigation Units told Pavlo Kyrylenko about the path taken by the Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs during the war. Yulia Kostunica, deputy head of the regional state administration, and Tetiana Sidasheva, director of the Department of Education and Science of the Donetsk Regional State Administration joined the online meeting. The event was held on the occasion of the Day of Unity of Ukraine.
Pavlo Kyrylenko greeted the participants and remarked the courage and endurance of the DonSUIA team in overcoming the obstacles related to the war.
“Today, each of us is going down in history in his/her own way, and our unity is a key factor in the future Victory. Those who are on the front line defending Ukraine, who study, work at enterprises, hospitals, institutions, every resident of Ukraine contributes to Victory. We must realize that there is strength in our unity,” said Pavlo Kyrylenko.
Vice-rector of the university Ruslan Vradii greeted those present on behalf of the rector Serhiy Vitvitskyi and presented the higher educational institution to the head of the regional military administration. He emphasized the role of the Kropyvnytskyi community in the development of the HEI: Due to the support of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the regional military administration and the city administration, we have an auditorium fund, an assembly hall, barracks, a canteen with auxiliary premises, service and economic premises, a bomb shelter. In general, more than 3,000 cadets and students study at the university, and about 500 members of the staff work there.
The cadet Volodymyr Klymenko noted that on the basis of Mariupol Center for Primary Professional Training “Police Academy” of the Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs, the activities of the driving school have been resumed: “60 people can study here at the same time. Today, the driving school is provided with the necessary equipment, the classroom fund allows to create conditions for realization of the right to education for persons with special educational needs. From now on, everyone who wants can take driving training courses.” The student added that today the educational process at the university is provided at the appropriate level: cadets and master’s students are in full-time education, students, adjuncts and postgraduates are in a mixed education with elements of distant learning.
The cadets told Pavlo Kyrylenko about volunteering and military-patriotic education of young people at the HEI, holding legal educational events, signing memorandums of cooperation, participating in the “UPSHIFT” grant program, as well as about protecting the state in aggressive cyberspace by the representatives of the university.
The head of the regional military administration answered the cadets’ questions, outlined his vision of what should become the most perspective field of education in the post-war period and what traits of character a Ukrainian of the future should have so that war did not happen again.
