Serhiy Shkarlet

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mykolayovych and the family name is Shkarlet.

Serhiy Shkarlet
Сергій Шкарлет
Shkarlet in 2010
Minister of Education and Science
In office
25 June 2020 – 20 March 2023
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal
Preceded byLubomyra Mandziy (acting)
Succeeded byOksen Lisovyi
Personal details
Born (1972-10-19) 19 October 1972 (age 52)
Kokand, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union[1]
(now Uzbekistan)
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations		Party of Regions
European Solidarity
EducationIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
OccupationEconomist
politician

Serhiy Mykolayovych Shkarlet (Ukrainian: Сергій Миколайович Шкарлет; born 19 October 1972[2]) is a Ukrainian economist and politician. On 25 June 2020 he was assigned as acting Minister of Education and Science.[3] On 17 December 2020, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) appointed Shkarlet as Minister of Education and Science.[4] Parliament dismissed him 20 March 2023.[5]

Biography

Born in 1972 in Kokand, in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Shkarlet's family moved to Nizhyn, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, in 1975 because his father was offered a job there in the defense specialist company Research and Production Complex "Progress" [uk].[6] From 1989 until 1995, Shkarlet studied and graduated at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.[2] Between 1995 and 1997 he studied accounting and auditing at Chernihiv National University of Technology and in 1997 at the Academician Yuriy Bugay International Scientific and Technical University [uk].[6] In 1996 he started teaching at the Chernihiv National University of Technology.[6]

Shkarlet is a Doctor of Economics, Professor (2008).[2]

Since May 2010, he has served as rector of the Chernihiv State Technological University [uk].[7] In June 2020 Ukrainian media began to accuse Shkarlet of plagiarism in his scientific works.[1][8]

From 2010 to 2015, he was a member of the Chernihiv Oblast Council for the Party of Regions.[2][1] In 2020 Shkarlet claimed that he had joined the Party of Regions "by order from the regional state administration."[6] Previously in 2010 he had claimed that "I fully share the views and principles of the Party of Regions."[6] According to former fellow deputies in the Chernihiv Oblast Council Shkarlet had pro-European views.[6]

In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections Shkarlet unsuccessfully sought re-election, this time on the party list of European Solidarity.[8]

On 25 June 2020 Shkarlet was assigned as acting Minister of Education and Science.[3] Beforehand, he had served as Deputy Minister of Education and Science for European Integration.[9] Prior to Shkarlet's assignment as minister, significant volumes of plagiarism were discovered in his scientific publications.[10][11]

On 17 December 2020, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) appointed Shkarlet as Minister of Education and Science.[4] Voice claimed that two deputies voted for the appointment although they were not present in the Verkhovna Rada building (Shkarlet was appointed with exactly 226 votes, the required amount for an approval).[12][4]

In 2020 Shkarlet was accused of plagiarism.[13][14][15][16][11] The presence of plagiarism in Shkarlet's papers was confirmed by National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education and by three independent international experts from the USA, the Czech Republic and Poland, who analyzed excerpts of works translated into English.[17][18] Afterwards Skarlet filed a lawsuit against the National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education to the District Administrative Court of the City of Kyiv, in which he demanded to "declare the actions of the defendant to be illegal in establishing the presence of textual borrowings without reference to the source" in a number of his scientific works. The court of first instance ruled in favor of the official.[19]

Parliament dismissed Shkarlet as minister on 20 March 2023.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Plagiarism in dissertations and the past in the Party of Regions: what is known about new Minister of Education Serhiy Shkarlet, UNIAN (25 June 2020) (in Ukrainian)
  2. ^ a b c d "Шкарлет Сергей". file.liga.net (in Russian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Rada profile committee doesn't back Shkarlet's candidacy for education minister post". Interfax-Ukraine. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
    "Про тимчасове покладення виконання обов'язків Міністра освіти і науки України на Шкарлета С. М." Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  4. ^ a b c Shkarlet appointed Ukraine's education minister, Ukrinform (17 December 2020)
  5. ^ a b "Verkhovna Rada dismisses three ministers". Ukrayinska Pravda. 20 March 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  6. ^ a b c d e f (in Ukrainian) From Yanukovych to Zelensky through Poroshenko. Who is the head of the Ministry of Education Serhiy Shkarlet, Ukrayinska Pravda (13 October 2020)
  7. ^ "Serhiy Shkarlet". Applied Mathematics Department. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  8. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Plagiarist and lover of expensive cars at public expense Shkarlet became acting Minister of Education and Science, Ukrayinska Pravda (25 June 2020)
  9. ^ "Про призначення Шкарлета С. М. заступником Міністра освіти і науки України з питань європейської інтеграції". Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  10. ^ Серія досліджень наукових робіт Шкарлета на наявність плагіату:
  11. ^ a b У монографії кандидата в міністри освіти Шкарлета є плагіат
  12. ^ Reaction to Shkarlet vote: Razumkov promises new cameras and increased responsibility for button-pressing, Civil movement "Chesno" (18 December 2020) (in Ukrainian)
  13. ^ Сергій Шкарлет не став міністром освіти. Чому Archived 2020-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ "Новий кандидат на посаду міністра освіти від Зе-команди відзначився «текстовими запозиченнями»". Archived from the original on 8 January 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  15. ^ "Монографія Сергія Шкарлета: було твоє — стало моє". Archived from the original on 8 January 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  16. ^ "«Наукова стаття» Сергія Шкарлета: тяп-ляп — і готово!". Archived from the original on 8 January 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  17. ^ "Тепер офіційно: НАЗЯВО знайшло плагіат в наукових роботах Шкарлета". Українська правда _Життя. Archived from the original on 11 September 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  18. ^ "У роботах Сергія Шкарлета є плагіат - визнав комітет з етики НАЗЯВО". LIGA (in Ukrainian). 11 September 2020. Archived from the original on 11 September 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  19. ^ "Суд постановив, що НАЗЯВО шукало плагіат у роботах Шкарлета незаконно". Українська правда _Життя. Retrieved 3 August 2022.