Ukraine

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Ukraine in a nutshell

Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна, transliterated: Ukrayina) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south.

The population of Ukraine is just over 46 million.

The city of Kiev (Kyiv) is both the capital and the largest city of Ukraine.

Ukraine is a unitary state composed of 24 oblasts (provinces), one autonomous republic (Crimea), and two cities with special status: Kiev, its capital, and Sevastopol, which houses the Russian Black Sea Fleet under a leasing agreement.

Ukraine is a republic under a semi-presidential system with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine continues to maintain the second largest military in Europe, after that of Russia.

Source : http://www.cia.gov

Some 77.8 percent of the population are ethnic Ukrainians, with sizable minorities of Russians, Belarusians and Romanians.

The Ukrainian language is the only official language in Ukraine, but Russian is also widely spoken, especially in eastern and southern Ukraine. According to the 2001 census, 67.5 percent of the population declared Ukrainian as their native language and 29.6 percent declared Russian. Most native Ukrainian speakers know Russian as a second language.

These details result in a significant difference across different survey results, as even a small restating of a question switches responses of a significant group of people. Ukrainian is mainly spoken in western and central Ukraine. In western Ukraine, Ukrainian is also the dominant language in cities (such as Lviv). In central Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian are both equally used in cities, with Russian being more common in Kiev, while Ukrainian is the dominant language in rural communities. In eastern and southern Ukraine, Russian is primarily used in cities, and Ukrainian is used in rural areas.

According to the Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukrainian is the only state language of the republic. However, the republic's constitution specifically recognises Russian as the language of the majority of its population and guarantees its usage "in all spheres of public life". Similarly, the Crimean Tatar language (the language of 12 percent of population of Crimea) is guaranteed a special state protection as well as the "languages of other ethnicities". Russian speakers constitute an overwhelming majority of the Crimean population (77 percent), with Ukrainian speakers comprising just 10.1 percent, and Crimean Tatar speakers 11.4 percent. But in everyday life the majority of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Crimea use Russian.

The dominant religion in the country is Eastern Orthodox Christianity, which has heavily influenced Ukrainian architecture, literature and music.

The World Bank classifies Ukraine as a middle-income state. Significant issues include underdeveloped infrastructure and transportation, corruption and bureaucracy. In 2007 the Ukrainian stock market recorded the second highest growth in the world of 130 percent. Growing sectors of the Ukrainian economy include the information technology (IT) market, which topped all other Central and Eastern European countries in 2007, growing some 40 percent.

Ukraine education policy

According to the Ukrainian constitution, access to free education is granted to all citizens. Complete general secondary education is compulsory in the state schools which constitute the overwhelming majority.

Ukraine education system

Because of the Soviet Union's emphasis on total access of education for all citizens, which continues today, the literacy rate is an estimated 99.4%. Since 2005, an eleven-year school program has been replaced with a twelve-year one: primary education takes four years to complete (starting at age six), middle education (secondary) takes five years to complete; upper secondary then takes three years, to age 18. In the 12th grade, students take Government Tests, which are also referred to as school-leaving exams. These tests are later used for university admissions.

Higher education

Free higher education in state and communal educational establishments is provided on a competitive basis. There is also a small number of accredited private secondary and higher education institutions.

The Ukrainian higher education system comprises higher educational establishments, scientific and methodological facilities under federal, municipal and self-governing bodies in charge of education.

Higher education is either state funded or private. It is common practice that university candidates are not required to pass an entrance examination if they are willing to pay for their education. Students that study at state expense receive a standard scholarship if their average marks at the end-of-term exams and differentiated test is at least 4 (see the 5-point grade system below); this rule may be different in some universities. In the case of all students with a grade 5, the scholarship is increased by 25%.

For most students the level of government subsidy is not sufficient to cover their basic living expenses. Most universities provide subsidized housing for out-of-city students. Also, it is common for libraries to supply required books for all registered students.

There are two degrees conferred by Ukrainian universities: the Bachelor's Degree (4 years) and the Master's Degree (5–6 years). These degrees have been introduced in accordance with Bologna process, in which Ukraine is taking part. Historically, Specialist's Degree (usually 5 years) is still also granted; it was the only degree awarded by universities in the Soviet times.

Universities in Ukraine

As of July 2009 there were 900 different universities in Ukraine. However, the Ministry expects that around one third of Ukrainian universities will be closed or merged by 2013 - due to fierce competition, the quality of education, the declinein the number of school leavers. Even if the number is reduced to 600 this is probably three times as many as are needed, unless many are small, specialised or are (or become) sub-university tertiary institutions.

Leading universities

Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Ukraine lists the major universities as follows:

1. Kiev University (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev)
2. National Technical University of Ukraine (National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute")
3. Kharkiv University (Karazin Kharkiv National University)
4. Lviv University (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv)
5. Donetsk National University
6. Chernivtsi University (Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University)
7. Odessa University (I.I. Mechnikov Odessa National University)
8. National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
9. National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute"
10. Lviv Polytechnic
11. Ostroh Academy

Each of these has a Wikipedia entry.

Other universities

However there are many hundreds of other university-level institutions. The list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Ukraine sorts around 140 universities and tertiary-level institutions by city. We draw on this but sort the universities only and in name order to produce a list of 120 or so.

1. Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding
2. Army Acedemy of hetman Petro Sahaydachny
3. Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University
4. Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv Municipal Pedagogical University
5. Bukovinian State Medical University
6. Chemical Technology University of Ukraine
7. Cherkasy State Technological University
8. Cherkasy State University, Bogdan Khmelnitskiy
9. Chernivtsi University
10. Crimea State Medical University
11. Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
12. Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
13. Dneprodzerzhinsk State Technical University
14. Dnepropetrovsk State Technical University of Railway Transport (DIIT)
15. Dnipropetrovsk National University
16. Donbas State Technical University
17. Donetsk National Technical University
18. Donetsk National Technical University
19. Donetsk State Medical University
20. Donetsk State University of Management
21. East European University of Economics and Management
22. East Ukraine Volodymyr Dahl National University
23. Halych Institute V.Chornovil Memorial
24. International Christian University
25. International Institute of Business
26. International Solomon University
27. Interregional Academy of Personnel Management
28. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
29. Ivan Ohienka Kamianets-Podilskyi National University
30. Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University
31. Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas
32. Ivano-Frankivsk Professional Institute of hotel management and tourism
33. Ivano-Frankivsk Professional Institute of service technologies specialization
34. Ivano-Frankivsk State College of technology and business
35. Ivano-Frankivsk State Music Institute Sichynsky Memorial
36. Kharkiv National Medical University
37. Kharkiv National University of Economics
38. Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics
39. Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute
40. Kharkiv State Academy of Culture
41. Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts
42. Kharkiv State Automobile-Highway Technical University
43. Kharkiv State University of Culture named after Ivan Kotliarevsky - http://www.rshu.edu.ua
44. Kherson State University
45. Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law
46. Kyiv International University
47. Kyiv Military Institute of Control and Signals
48. Kyiv National Economic University
49. Kyiv National Linguistic University
50. Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUCA)
51. Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics
52. Kyiv School of Economics
53. Kyiv State Tchaikovsky Academy of Music
54. Kyiv University for Market Relations
55. Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Lutsk
56. Luhansk State Medical University
57. Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University
58. Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University
59. Lviv Banking Institute of University of Banking (Kyiv)
60. Lviv Lysenko National Conservatory of Music
61. Lviv National Academy of Arts
62. Lviv Polytechnic
63. Lviv State University of Physical Culture
64. Lviv Theological Seminary
65. Lviv University
66. Mykolayiv State Agrarian University
67. National Academy of Management
68. National Aerospace University "Kharkiv Aviation Institute"
69. National Aviation University
70. National Dragomanov Pedagogical University
71. National Forestry and Wood Technology University of Ukraine
72. National Medical University of Ukraine
73. National Mining University of Ukraine
74. National Pirogov Memorial Medical University
75. National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
76. National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
77. National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute"
78. National Technical University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
79. National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
80. National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv
81. National University of Theatre, Film and TV of Karpenko-Kary
82. National Yaroslav Mudryi Law Academy of Ukraine
83. Nizhyn Pedagogical University
84. Oblast State Music Institute Krushelnytska Memorial
85. Odessa National Academy of Telecommunications
86. Odessa National Law Academy
87. Odessa National Maritime Academy
88. Odessa National Maritime University
89. Odessa National Polytechnic University
90. Odessa National University
91. Odessa State Economic University
92. Odessa State Medical University
93. Open International University of Human Development "Ukraine"
94. Podilsky Technical University of Agrarian Science (Подільський державний аграрно-технічний університет)
95. Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture
96. Prykarpattia National University V. Stefanyk Memorial
97. Prykarpattia School of Law of Lviv
98. Rivne State Humanitarian University
99. Sevastopol National Technical University
100. South Ukrainian State Pedagogical University
101. State University of internal affairs
102. Sumy State University
103. Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University
104. Ternopil National Economic University
105. Ternopil National Pedagogical University V.Hnatiuk Memorial
106. Ternopil State Ivan Pul'uj Technical University
107. Ternopil State Medical University Horbachevsky Memorial
108. The National University of Ostroh Academy
109. Transcarpathian State University
110. Ukrainian academy of banking of the National bank of Ukraine
111. Ukrainian Catholic University
112. Ukrainian State Academy of Printing Technologies
113. Uzhhorod National University
114. Uzhhorod National University
115. V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
116. V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
117. Vinnytsia National Technical University
118. Wisconsin International University in Ukraine
119. Zaporizhia National Technical University
120. Zaporizhia State Medical University
121. Zaporizhia State University

For much more detail on the system (not the institutions) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_in_Ukraine

Polytechnics in Ukraine

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Virtual Campuses in HE

Interesting Programmes

See:

1. National Technical University of Ukraine
2. Lviv Polytechnic National University

Re.ViCa Case-study

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