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ens isolating tendencies, worsens mobility of our students, lecturers and scientists in the European educational
area and job-market borders.
Thus we began provide very serious structural transformations. There are monitoring of modernization of
educational quality system, two-level system coordinating with the European model, the European credits and
learning terms providing, a scientific degree «the Doctor of Philosophy» introduction.
There are some important rules for us:
- the monitoring of education quality can be complete, constant, transparent, objective;
- the quality and the accreditation, which are closely related, puts forward new tasks for our licensing and accreditation
system (to use of the European standards of quality, ENQA system);
- the quality control should be concentrate not only on the educational process, personnel, scientific and methodical
maintenances, material base etc., but, first of all, on control of the students’ and graduates’ knowledges
for their competence and opportunity determining for job-market requirements’ satisfaction;
- separate educational programs as well as educational institutions and specialities must pass an accreditation;
- except internal quality estimation is inevitable an external estimation, last one supports ENQA and gives an
opportunity to estimate the educational programs outside the country by general criteria.
Concerning the coordination of two-level system: this problem could be not so difficult, if our education system
don’t have to deside a question about technical schools’ and colleges’ destiny.
We have to accept a responsible decision about an «expert» educational-qualifying level. It is obvious, while
the experts are demanded by our economy, this level should be kept. In Ukraine in parallel it is rational to provide
the «master» educational-qualifying level by 4+2 formula: master of engineering, master of law, master of
business administration and other. The real destiny of «expert» and «master» levels in our country will be decide
according to the job-market importants; the last one also will gradually integrate in the European.
The similar approach could be applied to scientific degrees’ system in Ukraine. According to the Berlin communique-2003
it was favorably to add to the existing system of «Candidate and Doctor of Sciences» a scientific
degree «Doctors of Philosophy» – according to the international standards. Thus, for many scientists this could
remove barriers in mobility through European scientific and educational space.
Already it was much written and told about the European credit units system introduction. The Ministry of
education and sciences of Ukraine began the experiment from definition of credits-modular system features similar
to ECTS. In November, 2003 in Lviv there was held the scientific-practical conference, which devoted these
questions. There was no alternative to its introduction in Ukraine. By making it, we removed essential obstacles
in recognition of our higher education system by the external world.
By realizating this specified structural transformations, it was important to give the wide rights in acceptance
of the European standards to all Universities – completely or partially and in certain terms. First of all, the Bologna
process documents and tasks closely connected to the students. They are the centre, around of which all
system is built.
Both the Lisbon and the Bologna conventions declared that the basic purpose of the signed documents is to
simplify an access to all the European inhabitants and to all the students of educational institutions to the educational
resources and job-markets of other countries.
For doing this, three necessary and sufficient principles was formulated, which, unfortunately, was the hardest
for providing in Ukraine. There are:
– members’ mobilit, first of all – students;
– educational services’ appeal;
– employment opportunity.
These three principles are uniting by the fact, that they exceed the limits of education system, they are the state
prerogative, and in our domestic conditions they could be realized by process of social-economics integration into
the European space.
Mobility is very important European qualitative feature; it provides people mobility between higher educational
institutions and between the states.
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