Education in Ukraine

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Contents 1 General information 2 Major universities 3 Ukrainian educational system 3.1 School level 3.2 University level 3.3 Postgraduate level 3.4 Marks 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] General information

Ukraine's educational system has produced nearly 100% literacy.

[edit] Major universities

• National Technical University of Ukraine
• National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev
• National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute"
• Lviv University – (Львівський національний університет імені Івана Франка)
• Lviv Polytechnic – (Національний університет "Львівська політехніка")
• Kharkiv University
• Donetsk University
• National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

[edit] Ukrainian educational system

Simiralry to Russian educational system, Ukraine's one may be arranged into three major groups: secondary education, higher education, and postgraduate education.

[edit] School level

Since 2005, a 12-year school system was introduced in Ukraine: primary education takes 4 years to complete (starting at age six), middle education takes 5 years to complete, depending on the school. There are then 3 profile years. Full secondary education is compulsory for all Ukrainian citizens.

[edit] University level

The higher education can be obtained at the expense of either state budget or own. It is common practice that an university entrant doesn't need to pass entrance examination to enter university if he/she will study at the his/her own expense (actually there are some examsbut they are formal only).

Students that study at the expense of state receive scholarship of 136 hryvnias if their average mark of end-of-term exams ("sessiya" - "сессия") and differentiated test ("diferentsiyovanyi zalik" – "диференційований залік") is 4 to 4.99. In case of 5 average the scholarship is increased to 170 hryvnias.

There are three different degrees that are conferred by Ukrainian universities: Bachelor's Degree (4 years), Specialist's Degree (usually 5 years), and Master's Degree (5-6 years). Bachelor's and Master's degrees were introduced relatively recently; they did not exist in the Soviet Union. As Ukraine is taking part in Bologna process they will eventually replace Specialist's Degree.

[edit] Postgraduate level

After obtaining a Specialist's or Master's Degree, a student may enter a university or a scientific institute to pursue postgraduate education. The first level of postgraduate education is aspirantura (аспирантура) that usually results in the Kandidat Nauk degree (кандидат наук, Candidate of Sciences). The seeker should pass three exams (in his/her special field, in a foreign language of his/her choice and in philosophy), publish at least three scientific articles, write a dissertation and defend it. This degree is roughly equivalent to the Ph.D. in the United States.

After graduation a student may continue postgraduate education. Few (2 to 4) years of study in doctorantura (докторантура) with obtaining important scientific results, publishing them and writing new thesis would result in the Doctor Nauk degree (доктор наук, Doctor of Sciences), but the typical way is working in a university or scientific institute with parallel preparation of a thesis. The average time between obtaining Kandidat and Doctor degrees is roughly 10 years, and most of new Doctors are 40 and more years old. Only 1 of 4 Kandidats reaches this grade.

Kandidat Nauk may keep position of Assistant Professor (Docent) in universities and of Researcher or Senior Researcher in a scientific institutes. Doctor Nauk can hold position of full Professor, Head of Laboratory or equal and higher ones.

Now the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine proposes to change the Soviet-like Kandidat Nauk and Doctor Nauk degrees by Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor Habilitation, as it was made by several post-Soviet countries.

[edit] Marks

Ukrainian universities use traditional 5-grade scale: "5" = excellent, "4" = good, "3" = acceptable, "2" = "unacceptable" (Fail).

If student gets "2" he/she has 3 chances to resit an examination.

Since 2001 secondary schools use 12-grade scale:

• "12" = "5+"
• "11" = "5"
• "10" = "5-"
• "9" = "4+"
• "8" = "4"
• "7" = "4-"
• "6" = "3+"
• "5" = "3"
• "4" = "3-"
• "3" = "2+"
• "2" = "2"
• "1" = "2-"

[edit] See also

• List of universities in Ukraine

[edit] External links

• (Ukrainian) Official website of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Ukraine