100 modern standards of higher education have been approved: 73 - bachelor's and 27 - master's. In particular, they specify the expected results of the student for his successful completion of studies. The Minister of Education and Science, Liliya Hrynevych, told about this at the Ternopil National Pedagogical University named after Volodymyr Hnatyuk.
"There is a constant change of new technologies, new materials, new competencies that employers expect from us, from our graduates, from our children. Therefore, we are obliged to update the content of education. Such updating of content is also taking place in higher education. I want to inform you that we have already approved 100 standards of higher education, which were developed by scientific and pedagogical workers and, most importantly, by employers as well," the Minister noted.
The new standards have been developed since the spring of 2016 with the involvement of more than 800 specialists from universities, scientific institutions and representatives of employers.
The innovation of these standards is that they do not define specific courses that a student should take, their scope or forms of control. In these standards, only one thing is laid down - the result that the student must achieve after graduation. How to go about this result is the matter of the higher education institution and the student.
Thanks to this, the system becomes flexible, helps to build the work so that it takes into account all the student's strengths and needs. For universities, this is a way to achieve greater autonomy, to offer more diverse programs.
"For a long time, this process could not move from a standstill, because we did not have the National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education - the conscience of the higher school. It is this agency that must approve the new standard before it goes into effect. A little more than 100 days of work NAMELY - and that's already 100 quality standards," Liliya Hrynevych added.
In total, 266 higher education standards for bachelor's, master's, and doctor of philosophy degrees have been developed.
