It is now in fashion to talk about necessity of educational reform in Ukraine. But is it really necessary to reform our educational system when the graduates of "soviet" universities are so valued abroad and have such a high educational level? What gives us grounds to think that we have to reform our educational system and spend the deficit budget money?   Let's start from half-anecdotic situation. People are talking at the department of one of the prestigious universities. The faculty is irritated that the majority of students do not spend much time doing their homework because they are busy with their work. Then they come up to him asking for better grades even though they receive much better salaries than he himself! "Don't take it too close, says the faculty's colleague, both of us have two degrees and we are too smart to receive a lot of money". Considering the seeming absurdity of this saying we still cannot disagree with it. The situation on the labor market is that employers do not want to hire workers without experience and real skills. Most of them do not have neither time nor recources to teach a new worker. The practice proves that an ideal candidate for a job is a self-confident young university graduate with 3-5 years of experience. And the decisive fact for an employer is precisely the experience. In this case second higher education is a real index that a person had spent more time on studying and has less practical skills. It is hard to get similar experience when you study. It is a paradox, but a diliget student who spent hours in the library has less chances of getting a job than his friend who hardly got his diploma and never attended classes because he had worked. But there is another side to this problem: lots of talented and skillful scientists have to work on unqualified positions just because of higher salaries.  And it causes damage to intellectual potential of the country. Partly this situation is a part of transitional period, but the government at least should try to regulate such discrepancy. If it cannot help the situation, the only solution would be to promote development of private educational establishments that are more flexible in the context of market system. First of all we should talk about taxes and weakening state licence control. So, what are the specialists that higher educational establishments prepare now without mentioned above "retraining"? It turns out that system of higher education of our country reproduces… itself.  Partly the situation with inheritance is totally logical, but not in such quantities! Imagine that in a few years we will have the same amount of teachers who are students now. Such geometric progession  or "tumor" is not normal. Plus students themselves do not want to work as teachers beacuase this job foresees wasting lots of energy and getting little money. It automatically places this profession among most prestigious in our country.  Problem number two - is a sick self reproduction in educational sphere and low level of interest in this job. It makes more talented students look for jobs in commercial spheres, and those who were not "lucky" enough or who have certain defect and can not work at well-paid positions can always go and teach our kids, and form next generation.   During one of the presentations, the head of department for protection of economic rights of employees of Federation of professional Unions of Ukraine Sergiy Kondratyuk said that every fourth representative of "youth" in our country (aged 18 to 28) is unemployed, or better to say "disengaged". Unemployed is a person who was officially registered at the labor registry office. And as we know, it is connected with a long process of collecting papers and waste of time for weekly "signing in" with a few hours of standing in a line. In this case labor registry office and official status of unemployed intimidates a person even more. Taking this fact into considertion, we can not know how true is the data that there are 4,2% of unempoyed in Ukraine.  There is no governmental program for empoyment in Ukraine, as well as planning of working places. And I have the impression that the government is not interested in specialists who it prepares and who it can count on in the future.  But graduates of educational establishemnts of the the 1st and 2nd type are the potential elite of the nation, "face" of our country, future leaders! Once again, it is the eternal problem of Ukrainian nation that was mentioned by Kulish and Mikhnovskiy, the problem of a "head" that we lack, we don't have a leading minority. Modern Ukrainian and foreign specialists say that our "prolonged" crisis that will end at least in 50 years is due to inability of our leaders to form action plan and organize it step by step without contradictions. As we know, the peculiarity of the Soviet system was that it was based on people-studs. People who were thoughtful, educated, independent were repressed. It is understandable that over this 70 years the educational system was formed in a way that with all the seeming high level of preparation teachers do not prepare students to make decisions. More than this, low level of humanitarian sciences in the post-soviet countries is due to openly trancated education program, limited with ideological version of history, philosophy, and unwillingness to teach students how to think freely. International center for perspective research developed "Propositions to the program of educational reform in Ukraine". They underlined necessity in reforming educational system because it still has the Soviet shape. So, they formed the social goal of this reform:

-          Transition from totalitarian society to democratic

-          Transition from industrial to high-tech society

-          Promoting development of global society "Educational reform will surely reflect on economic situation of the country because success of economical reform depends on political stability. It is hard to deceive and manipulate educated people, and on the contrary, passive people are easier influenced by populist slogans…" Absence of normal elements of social life cause negative tendencies that exist in Ukraine. These elements are:

-          consensus about the future of the country

-          program for transition from totalitarian regime to democratic

-          there is no realization of insecurity and price that society is paying in case of isolation and stagnation

-          comperative analysis of consequences for different development lines, determination of priority line for development

-          transparency of power, participation of community when evaluating effectiveness of governmental services

-          procedures of public politics, istitutions of civil society It is true that the majority of problems in different spheres of our life appear due to absence of strict governmental line.

We can separate problem of literacy among people, wide-spread of language mixtures and mysterios Ukrainian grammar that they cannot approve. Language problem, which was studied by Committee of culture of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine during the 1st and 2nd decades of 2001 is also the inheritance of Soviet system and result of unstable governmental line. Over the last 10 years of independency Ukrainian language, which was constitutionally proclaimed to be national, was not used niether in mass media, nor in private communication, and nor even in the governmental sector. It brightly illustrates struggle between two opposite tendencies (pro-European and pro-Russian). Instead, with a certain support of Russian Federation to its culture and language, the fate of Russian literaure, radio and TV programs in Ukraine became even better in comparison to 1997. As we see, absence of reforms leads to stable "bad" situation and graduale transition to "worse".