Odesa maritime universities are being merged, and the Navy Institute will become an independent academy

The Odesa Maritime Academy National University will be merged with the Odesa National Maritime University.

The Minister of Education and Science, Oksen Lisovyi, has already signed an order to prepare for the merger, writes Dumskaya.  

The merged university will train personnel for the merchant and technical fleet, as well as marine engineers, as well as lawyers, psychologists, etc.

“This decision is part of the general policy taken by the government to reduce the number of universities in Ukraine. There are fewer and fewer applicants every year, there is little money in the budget, and the war is ongoing. Universities will be merged by profile: engineering with engineering, humanitarian with humanitarian,” a Dumskaya source in the education department noted.

By merging with Vodny, the OMA will “lose” its important structural units — the Institute of the Naval Forces, which was subordinate to the Ministry of Defense, and the military training department of the Professional College of Maritime Transport.

They will be reorganized into an independent Naval Academy, which will include a Naval College for training non-commissioned officers.

The restoration of a full-fledged academy is provided for in the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Maritime Security Strategy of Ukraine, recently approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.

In addition to the college, it will include the Naval Lyceum named after Vice Admiral Volodymyr Bezkorovaynyi and the Navy Diving School, which will be called the “Center for Diving Training and Survival at Sea”.

The plans also include expanding the material and technical base of the academy. It will receive new buildings, training simulators, as well as ships and boats on which future officers of the national fleet will undergo training.

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