Post - school education

In Ukraine there are 1176 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 1-st and the 2-nd Level of Accreditation, for example, technical schools and colleges training young specialists, and by 165 institutions of higher learning, such as universities, academies, conservatoires, 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.

Among the well-known Universities in Ukraine are Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Dragomanov Pedagogical Kyiv National University, Kyiv Polyiechnical University, International Independent University, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv State Conservatoire, Kharkiv State University, Vinnitsia State

Technological University, Simpheropol State University, I. Franko State University of Lviv, Donetsk State University, Odessa State National Academy, Odessa State Economic University and others.

Notes:

vocational training school - професійно-технічне училище; curriculum - навчальний план, програма; conservatoire – консерваторія.

XI. Перекладіть англійською мовою запропоновані речення.

1. В Україні є 1176 професійно-технічних училищ, які надають майже 800 спеціальностей.

2. В більшості з них студенти навчаються також і по повному навчальному плану середньої освіти.

3. Післяшкільна освіта надається в 754 закладах 1 та 2 рівня акредитацій в 165 вищих навчальних закладах, таких як університети, академії, консерваторії, інститути.

4. В Україні налічується 1.5 мільйона студентів технікумів та університетів.

XII. Прочитайте та перекладіть додатковий текст №3 (SТ 3).

FROM THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UKRAINE.

Education is rooted in very old traditions 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 1576.

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

The first university appeared in Kharkiv (1805), Kyiv (1834) and Odessa (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 developed countries.

Despite today’s hardships coming 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 cultural needs and protecting their rights, irrespective of ethnic origin.

Notes:

Pagan – язичницький; literacy – письменність, грамотність; inherit – успадкувати; irrespective of smth - незалежно від.

XIІI. Знайдіть у додатковому тексті № З (SТ 3) відповіді на наступні запитання:

1. When were schools set up by national religious-educational communities -so called " Brotherhoods"?

2. When was the first institution of higher learning founded?

3. What was the level of public literacy in Ukraine at the turn of the 18-th century?

4. Where did the first Universities appear?

5. Does the system of education answer the standards of the developed countries?

6. What are the educational reforms in Ukraine aimed at?

XIV. Анотуйте англійською та українською мовами основний зміст додаткових текстів. Користуйтесь запропонованим варіантом як ключем.