1. THE BOLOGNA PROCESS AND PROBLEMS OF REFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION IN UKRAINE
Lviv Polytechnic
National University
Yuriy Rudavskyy, Petro Kostrobiy,
Orest Lozynskyy and Anatoliy Zahorodniy

2. OF BOLOGNA DECLARATION
BASIC PRINCIPLES
OF BOLOGNA DECLARATION
Two-level system of
training specialists
2. European credit transfer and accumulating system (ECTS )

3. COMPONENTS OF THE PROCESS OF LVIV POLYTECHNIC’S TRANSITION TO MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
1. Development of new educational-qualification characteristics and new educational-professional curricula from top-to-bottom (Master to Bachelor)
2. Implementation of the credit dimension of academic disciplines
3. Implementation of the modular-rating knowledge assessment system
4. Admission to Bachelor training directions (fields) with election of specialisms in the 6th or 7th semster, priority of choice being determined by the student’s rating in the knowledge assessment system.

4. STRUCTURAL REORGANIZTION OF LVIV POLYTECHNIC
Organization of educational and research institutes concentrating :
related Bachelor directions (fields) of training
corresponding scientific schools
In future the chairs are to be merged to form departments.

5. STRUCTURE OF EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Director of Educational and Research Institute
Dean of complete higher education
Dean of basic higher education
Deputy Director of Institute (Dean for complete higher education)
Chairman of Scientific and Methodological Council of Institute
Deputy Director of Institute (Dean for basic higher education)
Chairman of Scientific and Methodological Commission of Direction
Deputy Director for educative and organizational and managerial activities.
Dean’s Office personnel

6. PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIMENT TO IMPLEMENT CMSTS
“Conceptual Principles of Organizing the Educational Process in Higher Education Institutions according to Credit-Modular System of Training Specialists (CMSTS)” have been developed
Scientific-practical seminar entitled “The Credit-Modular System of Training Specialists in the Context of the Bologna Declaration” was organized and conducted (November 21-22, 2003)
Working groups have been organized to carry out organizational and methodological monitoring of the pedagogical experiment

7. PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIMENT TO IMPLEMENT
CMSTS
“Methodological Recommendations on Formation of an Educational-Professional Curriculum for Training Specialists in the Credit-Modular System of the Educational Process” have been developed
“Provisional Regulations on the Teacher-Curator of Individual Educational Program” have been developed
Information packages have been compiled
New curricula enabling students to formulate their individual study programmes and variable paths, and new curricula structured as sets of content modules in the credit dimension, which enables individual paths of study, have been developed

8. PROBLEMS OF IMPLEMENTING CMSOEP
Creation of a new classifier of professions and positions
Creation of a new list of training directions and specialisms
Construction of new State educational standards based on new foundations
The problem of formation of the Master’s cycle contingent of students

9. PROBLEMS OF IMPLEMENTING CMSOEP
The problems related to the call to the Ukrainian Army
Revision of the norms of the ratio of the number of students per one teacher
Defining the minimum number of students in a group who are studying according to a concrete variable path
The problem of payment for the transition from one variable path to another one, and the possible number of transitions from one path to another

10. PROBLEMS OF IMPLEMENTING CMSOEP
Developing packages of normative documents on exclusion of students, their re-admission and stipend provision under conditions of CMSOEP
Provision of higher education institutions with licensed software products
Realization of State programme to provide normative part of the educational-professional curricula with Ukrainian-language text-books and teaching materials
English-language materials for the educational process