“STOPPING OF BASIC FINANCING TO HARM SCIENCE”: YSU FACULTY ARE ANXIOUS
The representatives of a number of faculties of YSU gathered today ate the Faculty of Chemistry to discuss the negative impact of the offer made by the Ministry of Finances to make the basic financing at foundations competitive and made a decision to take steps towards cancelling that decision.
A few days ago, during the session of the Board of Trustees, YSU Rector Aram Simonyan, turning to the members of the Board, said that the Government had made or was going to make such a decision and warned about its negative impact on science development.
The professors, lecturers and researchers of different faculties (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Radiophysics, Geography and Geology, Philosophy and Psychology, European Languages and Communication) and of the Institute of Pharmacy expressed their opinions on that process stressing that stopping of basic financing not only make many employees unemployed but also stops the implementation of a number of scientific programs.