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2 March, 2010 - 00:00

University students to choose quarter of classes

“Starting with the next year, university students will have a right to choose 25 percent of courses from the general amount of professional and practical training,” reported the press service of Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science. From now on only 50 percent of mandatory subjects will be established by the Ministry of Education and Science. Another 25 percent will be defined as compulsory by the university, while the remaining 25 percent will be chosen by students from the list offered by the university.

The Minister of Education and Science Ivan Vakarchuk has signed the decree on the structure of educational and professional programs and academic curriculum for the bachelor’s degree program, thus fulfilling the promise he made two years ago when he assumed office: “This is true respect for the autonomy of higher education institutions and students’ right to choice. From now on both administrations and academic councils of education institutions, as well as the students themselves will be responsible for high-quality professional training.

“This way we continue reforms in the direction of ‘free trajectory,’ and now we are at the stage of learning fundamental disciplines and professional and practical training for students.”

The regulations stated in the decree will be implemented starting from the academic year of 2010–11. The decree also introduces a state exam in Ukrainian in professional use and a state exam in one or more basic disciplines, or a bachelor’s candidate diploma project. Academic performance will also be checked through independent external testing in some fields of education.

In July 2009 Vakarchuk signed a decree that establishes Ukrainian, the history of Ukraine, the history of Ukrainian culture, a foreign language, and philosophy as compulsory disciplines, while the rest of liberal arts courses are optional. Liberal arts courses will comprise 10 percent for students majoring in physics, math, natural sciences, and technical sciences and 15 percent for those who study the humanities and social and economic sciences.

Museum for Ukrainian classic

The raion center of Horodyshche, Cherkasy oblast, saw the opening of a museum to Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813–73), the founder of the Ukrainian classical music, actor and singer, and the author of the first national opera Zaporozhets za Dunaiem (Zaporozhian Cossack beyond the Danube). The Department of Culture and Tourism of the Horodyshche Raion State Administration rented the former building of the Horodyshche raion court from the territorial department of state judicial administration to set up the museum exhibit, reports Interfax-Ukraine.

With the consent of the lessor, remodeling works for the sum of UAH 78,800 were completed at the expense of the raion budget and sponsors. The local private enterprise Sotsbud was the main contractor. Olha Shliakhova, a pensioner and a descendant of the Hulak family, initiated the project to open the museum. A considerable contribution to renewing the exhibit of the museum was done by the Solomia Krushelnytska Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater and the Mykola Lysenko Kharkiv Opera and Ballet Theater, as well as a number of sponsors.

The Hulak-Artemovsky museum previously existed in Horodyshche (since 1968) and even had the status of “people’s museum” despite the fact that in recent years it was squeezed into a small room of the raion civic center. In the place where the house of the Hulak-Artemovsky family once stood, a memorial was erected and in the downtown a monument to Hulak-Artemovsky.

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