Serhiy Shkarlet

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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)
Igor 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

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]

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

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 "Сергій Шкарлет: біографія, діяльність і скандали про нового міністра освіти". www.unian.ua (in Ukrainian). 17 December 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d "Шкарлет Сергей". file.liga.net (in Russian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  3. ^
    Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
    (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Shkarlet appointed Ukraine's education minister". www.ukrinform.net. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  5. ^
    Ukrayinska Pravda
    . 20 March 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  6. ^ a b c d e f "Від Януковича до Зеленського через Порошенка. Хто такий очільник Міністерства освіти Сергій Шкарлет". Українська правда (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  7. ^ "Serhiy Shkarlet". Applied Mathematics Department. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Плагіатор та любитель дорогих машин за держкошт Шкарлет став в.о. міністра освіти і науки". Українська правда. Життя (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  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 "Сайт "Помилок і фальсифікації в наукових дослідженнях": у монографії кандидата в міністри освіти Шкарлета є плагіат". LB.ua. 4 June 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  12. ^ "Реакція на голосування щодо Шкарлета: Разумков обіцяє нові камери та посилення відповідальності за кнопкодавство". www.chesno.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  13. ^ "Сергій Шкарлет не став міністром освіти. Чому". BBC News Україна (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  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.