Kateryna Smagliy: How Mr. X outsmarted Mr. Kvit – The lopsided progress of Ukraine’s education reforms
Serhiy Kvit, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine.
Let me tell you the story of Mr. X - a student whom I had never seen in class, and who had not shown up for any of his final exams. "Oh, do not worry," his fellow students reassured me, "it has been like this year in year out." I could have easily forgotten this trivial episode had Mr. X not earned a university diploma and had someone answered my humble inquiry into how he managed to pull that off.
