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SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY


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PROBLEMSOF INTEGRATION OF

NATIONAL EDUCATIONSYSTEMS IN THE EUROPEAN

EDUCATION AREA

Tel izhenko O.M., Kyry chenko K .I., Lu kianykh in V.O.


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Components of the Area

Area is a structure of object and matter in general. Area

characterizes the co existence of objects, their extension, structure,

and positional relationship.

Area

coexistence structure positionalrelationship


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Coexistenceof National Education Areas in CommonAll-European Area

the Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning HigherEducation in the European Region (Lisbon (1997);

the Sorbonne Declaration On the harmonization of the architecture of the

European higher education system (Paris, 1998);

joint declaration of the European Ministers of Education (the Bologna

Declaration) European Higher Education Area (Bologna, 1999);

the Conference of Ministers responsible for Higher Education in Berlin (Berlin,2003);

the Communique HigherEducation Area - Achieving the Goals (Bergen,

2005);

the Budapest-Vienna Declaration on the creating of the European Higher

Education Area (Budapest, Vienna, 2010).


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The Struc ture of the Euro pean Educat ion Area

The structure of the European education area includes objective as well as

subjective components. To objective factors, that dont depend on the processes in the education

field, we classify formation and development of the whole number ofgenerally available fields:

- information;

- entire area of scientific researches and scientific transfers;

- study-and-education courses including distance education.

To subjective factors we classify national education doctrines with theirorganization-and-legal regulation.

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Posi t ion al Relat ionsh ip of the Comp onents o f Al l -

Europ ean Educat ion A rea andNational Educat ion Area

Study and removal of subjective components contradictions:

correlation of national documents that regulate education and

professional activity with corresponding All-European documents

(education standards, quality education evaluation standards,

qualification frameworks, profession classifications etc.).


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The Determination of Education AreaEssence

Education area is a living social-and- educational organism that washistorically created by the older generation for growing one. And asa living organism it has its own behavior psychology caused byinternal and hidden laws of reproduction and maintenance of theorganism.


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The Objective Character of Contradictions Appearing

while Creating common European Education Area

These are contradictions in such systems as:

autonomy (self-identification) of the university the unification ofcurricula;

national education traditions and peculiarities internationalstudent mobility;

national trade(the leading sectors of the economics) the unitedEuropean qualifications framework;

behavioral patterns, both teachers and students.


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Agreement of the System of Education Quality

European standards of education quality: Standards and Guidelinesfor Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area of HeadEuropean Union Agencies on quality assurance and accreditation(ENQA). National education standards are individual decisions withtheir specific national peculiarities. The national training programsmust meet the criteria of international accreditation systems - AACSB,

EQUIS, CEEMAN, where professional communities by on current andperspective business needs are established.

Europeanstandards of

educationquality

criteria ofinternationalaccreditation

systems (AACSB,EQUIS etc.).

Development oftraining programs.

Nationalsystem ofeducation


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The Situation in Ukraine

The necessity of determining common for all the labor market memberscriteria for determining quality. It is necessary to determine exactstandards for every profession, i.e. specified requirements to thecandidates with the account of necessary professional knowledge, skills,competencies, professional education level and the requirements tohealth, work experience etc. Then it will be clear for universities whom totrain, and for students - what to strive for. At the same time, rather wide

nomenclature of specialities trained at universities, essentiallycomplicates the formation (formalization) of the requirements from theside of employers, i.e. the requirements to the candidates taking intoaccount the necessary professional knowledge, skills and competencies.

There is a significant "gap" between higher education and the labourmarket in Ukraine. According to the official statistics data, in 2011 only27% of graduates of Ukrainian higher education institutions got the state

assignment to a job, the unemployment rate among young people agedup to 24 makes 18,8% that is 2,5 times higher than average level ofunemployment in Ukraine. Probably, such situation is caused by that factthat only 15% of university specialties have the direct correlation withprofession description in occupational classification and 20% ofspecialities, by which the training in Ukrainian universities is carried out,are not expendable on the labour market of Ukraine.


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Conclusions

Defining the measures on integration of the Ukrainian universities to the

European education area should be based on understanding of its internal

objective contradictions. In a certain way the creating of such area providesthe damage of national markets of knowledge and technology and strengthens

labour migration (especially in high-tech branches). Creation of a global

European education area creates objective conditions for the growth of the

"gaps" between the level of social-and-economic development of countries inthe result of "spillover" of qualified labor force, knowledge and technology.

However, for understanding the objective character of the formation process ofthe European education area it is necessary to create such national systems of

Education Quality Assurance, which will be agreed with the standards and

recommendations of the European Network of Quality Assurance (ENQA).Thereby the creation of internal (university) as well as external (national)

structures of quality education assurance is important. It is necessary to create the Bureau for Academic Recognition and

International Exchange, which should serve as the European Network of

National Information Centre (ENIC / NARIC). These very institutions must andcan ensure the sovereignty of the national education system on

one hand, and on the other hand become an independent regulator of the

integration processes of Ukrainian universities into the European education

area.

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