Education in Ukraine

Education is rooted in very old traditions reaching back to the pagan times…

In the 16^th-18^th centuries, an increasing number of schools were set up by national religious-educational communities – ‘Brotherhoods’, for instance, in Lviv (1585), in Kyiv (1615), in Lutsk (1620). The Greek-Slavonic-Latin Collegium, Ukraine's first institution of higher learning, was founded in Ostroh in 1576.

At the turn of the 18th century the level of public literacy placed Ukraine ahead of a number of Western and Eastern European countries.

The first universities appeared in Kharkiv (1805), Kyiv (1834) and Odesa (1865). Later, "specialized institutes" were opened for training industrial, railroad engineers, agronomists, physicians and specialists in other fields.

Present-day independent Ukraine has inherited a rather developed system of education from the previous regime, which answers the standards of the developed countries.

General secondary education in Ukraine is used to be free but compulsory.

Despite today's hardships resulting from the economic crisis, a programme of educational reforms aimed at integrating the national schooling system into the world's educational medium, at satisfying the people's national cultural needs and protecting their rights, irrespective of ethnic origin.

The educational system includes over 23,000 so-called pre-school educational estab-lishments where some 2,000,000 children are taught their mother tongue.

The basic link in the chain of public education in Ukraine is the "general education (grade) school," of which there are 21,350 now, with a student body of 6.9 million. Each has three stages: primary, basic and senior. Nowadays a new type of schools are there in Ukraine: gymnasiums (121), lyceums (124). Over 50 private schools have appeared recently.

There are 1,176 vocational training schools providing almost 800 qualifications. In most of them (69%) the working students are: also taught the complete curriculum of secondary education.

Post-secondary education is provided by 754 institutions of what is known as the 1st and 2nd Level of Accreditation, for example, technical schools and colleges training young specialists, and by 161 institutions of higher learning, such as universities, academies, conservatories, institutes. There are 14 classical and 45 technological and branch universities, 30 academies and 72 institutes. Ukraine numbers a total of 1.5 million college-and-university students.

Institutions of higher learning enroll some 12,000 foreign students, postgraduates and visiting graduates, of whom 8,000 are on Ukrainian government scholarships. More than 120,000 specialists from 130 countries across the world have graduated since World War II.

Among the well-known Universities in Ukraine are Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Drahomanov Kyiv National Pedagogical University, Kyiv Polytechnic Uni-versity, International Independent University "Kyiv Mohyla Academy," Kyiv State Conservatory, Kharkiv National University, Vinnytsya State Technological University, Sim-pheropol State University, I. Franko State University of Lviv, Donetsk State University, Odesa State Naval Academy, Odesa State Economic University and many others.

Практичне заняття 3. Подорож на міжнародну наукову конференцію.

Розповідь про подорож на наукову міжнародну конференцію.

If you want to get successfully to the international scientific conference you must know some rules or practical advice on how you can minimize the negative impact of travelling.

What makes a good travelling? First, good preparation before it. Find out as much as possible about the country (city, region) where you are going for the participation in the international scientific conference. But taking into account all well-known facts about this country try to prepare not only your abstracts and reports but also your dress.

Dress smartly. For the sessions a suit or something formal is best. Prepare all your personal documents. Don’t forget that they are needed for passport control and customs control and filling the declaration.

Medical Insurance: Make sure you are fully covered for medical treatment and medical evacuation Medical treatment can be very expensive in the country. It’s obvious that the Ukrainian Embassy cannot assist you with medical expenses. You should ensure that you have comprehensive medical insurance, which includes hospital treatment and medical evacuation Ukraine.

Documents: Keep a separate record of your passport details, preferably a photocopy of the details pages with next of kin (рідня) contact details. Report lost or stolen passports to the local police immediately

Funds: Only change money in banks or legal foreign exchange bureaus.

Find out what visas are required for your visit. Do not make flippant remarks about bombs or terrorism, especially when passing through airports and customs. In you Customs’ Declaration you have to declare: weapons of all description and ammunition, narcotics and appliances for the use there of; antiques and objects of art (paintings, drawings, icons, sculptures); currency (bank notes, letters of credit, etc.), securities (shares, bonds, etc.) in foreign currencies, precious metals, crude and processed natural precious stones (diamonds, brilliants, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and pearls), jewelry and other articles made of precious stones and scrap thereof, as well as property in papers. In addition to the objects listed in the Customs Dec­laration, I must submit for inspection: printed matter, manuscripts, films, sound recordings, postage stamps, graphics, plants, fruits, seeds, live animals, birds, as well as raw foodstuffs of animal origin and slaughtered fowl. If you get into any difficulties with the foreign country Authorities, you should explain to them that you are a Ukrainian national and ask to speak to a Ukrainian consular officer.

Find out as a much as possible about your future accommodation. If it’s a hotel room don’t forget about the hotel stuff? They are: receptionist, who can help you to check in and out, porter assists you with your luggage, chambermaids clean your room and run errands for you, and bellman helps you with your room appliances.

For example, you can get a lot of useful information from the Internet. It’s very useful to know something about the participants of the conference before you meet them.

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