First meeting of new team of Higher Education Sector of the Scientific and Methodological Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (24.09.2024, Kyiv)
On 24 September 2024, the first meeting of the Higher Education Sector of the Scientific and Methodological Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (the Council) in the new composition took place. HERE team members – Mychailo WYNNYCKKYJ, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Oleg SHAROV, Director General, Directorate for Vocational Pre-Tertiary and Higher Education, Ministry, Maryna MRUGA, State Expert, Volodymyr BAKHRUSHYN, Professor, National University “Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic” joined the meeting.
Mychailo WYNNYCKKYJ presented the prospects for developing a new generation of higher education standards in the context of higher education reforms. Oleg SHAROV presented the draft structure of scientific and methodological commissions (subcommissions) of the Higher Education Sector of the Council.
The Council members elected Volodymyr BAKHRUSHYN as the Coordinator of the Higher Education Sector, and Zhanna TALANOVA, Project Manager of the National Erasmus+ Office – Ukraine, Chief Researcher of the Institute of Higher Education, NAESU, and Oleksandr VOSTRYAKOV, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management, the Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University, as Deputy Coordinators. Also, curators for scientific and methodological commissions of the Higher Education Sector were appointed in accordance with the List of fields of knowledge. Thus, Zhanna TALANOVA was appointed as the curator on the field of knowledge – Education (01 Education/Pedagogy).
Changes and proposals to the Regulations on the Scientific and Methodological Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, to the Procedure for Reviewing and Approving Higher Education Standards, and to the Methodological Recommendations for Developing Higher Education Standards were considered.
On December 6, 2024, the meeting of the Higher Education Sector of the Council in the new composition was aimed at considering proposals for changes in the Methodological Recommendations for Developing Higher Education Standards, presented by Oleg SHAROV and Volodymyr BAKHRUSHYN. Zhanna TALANOVA and other members of the Council joined the discussion. A meeting of the competition committee for the selection of members of scientific and methodological committees (subcommittees) was also held.
In 2024, for the previous term, members of the Higher Education Sector and representatives of the scientific and methodological commissions of the Council took part in the meeting on June 4, 2024, dedicated to the discussion and approval of draft higher education standards.
On June 10, 2024, a final meeting of the Higher Education Sector and representatives of the scientific and methodological subcommittees of the Council was held with the participation of the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Mychailo WYNNYCKKYJ. During the meeting, employees of HEIs, research institutions were awarded incentive awards of the Ministry of Education and Science for their significant contribution to the development of higher education standards.
In 2016-2024, 336 higher education standards for Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD and Doctor of Arts degrees were developed, of which 272 standards were approved, another 64 projects are at various stages of expertise.