8. Read the text and translate it into Ukrainian.

The first higher education institutions (HEIs) emerged in Ukraine during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The first Ukrainian higher education institution was the Ostrozka School, or Ostrozkiy Greek-Slavic-Latin Collegium, similar to Western European higher education institutions of the time. Established in 1576 in the town of Ostrog, the Collegium was the first higher education institution in the Eastern Slavic territories. The oldest university was the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, first established in 1632 and in 1694 officially recognized by the government of Imperial Russia as a higher education institution. Among the oldest is also the Lviv University, founded in 1661. More higher education institutions were set up in the 19th century, beginning with universities in Kharkiv (1805), Kiev (1834), Odessa (1865), and Chernivtsi (1875) and a number of professional higher education institutions, e.g.: Nizhyn Historical and Philological Institute (originally established as the Gymnasium of Higher Sciences in 1805), The Veterinary Institute (1873) and The Technological Institute (1885) in Kharkiv, The Polytechnic Institute in Kiev (1898) and The Higher Mining School (1899) in Katerynoslav. Rapid growth followed in the Soviet period. By 1988 the number of higher education institutions increased to 146 with over 850,000 students. Most HEIs established after 1990 are those owned by private organizations.

9. Translate the text using terminology from the table „University Structure” from Topical Vocabulary.

Наш університет складається з 9 факультетів. Загальноуніверситетські питання вирішуються Вченою радою університету, а питання, що відносяться до конкретних факультетів, розглядаються на засіданнях рад відповідних факультетів. Факультети утворюються шляхом об’єднання кафедр. На чолі кафедр стоять їх завідувачі, а питання, що пов’язані з роботою кафедр, розглядаються на засіданнях кафедр.

Університет має денне відділення (стаціонар), а також вечірнє, заочне відділення.

10. Role-play the following situations:

1. You are a foreign student. Take part in the discussion on higher education in Ukraine. Ask questions about availability of higher education, subjects studied at higher schools, payment for studies, library, hostel, etc., about problems in education and changes taking place in the system of education in Ukraine, etc.

2. You are in correspondence with your English friend. Write a letter in English to your friend about your studies and your student’s life.

3. You are a reporter. Interview a student. Ask:

- if students have a hard working day;

- if they often work at the library, write the term papers (курсові роботи);

- if they take part in the social, cultural and sports’ life of the university.

4. Write a letter in English to your friend about your student’s working day. Write about your journey to the university, your daily routine, etc.

Text for home reading

The Ancient University

Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, one of the highest cultural achievements of our state, became one of the most brilliant phenomena of the Ukrainian culture and the Ukrainian spirit.

Its history begins at Kyiv Brotherhood School. On October 15, 1615, the woman Hlashka Hulevichevna presented her land in Podil in Kyiv to a monastery, hospital and school for children of “all positions and ranks”. Iov Boretskyi, a well-known Ukrainian lightener, became its first rector.

The guardian of the school was Kyiv Brotherhood which supported it both financially and intellectually: almost all Kyiv scientists of that time were its members. Zaporizhian Cossacks led by hetman Petro Sagaidachnyi joined the Brotherhood with the whole army. Some time later the school was united with the Lavra School of metropolitan Petro Mohyla: it was declared a higher educational establishment and was named Kyiv-Mohyla, in honor of its patron Petro Mohyla, the most educated man in Ukraine of that time. Hetman Ivan Mazepa, a protector of art and education in Ukraine, did much for the development of the Academy.

Until 1661 the Academy was the only institute of higher education in Eastern Europe. Kyiv-Mohyla Academy provided a very wide education. The Church Slavonic, Greek, Latin, Polish, French and German languages were studied at the Academy. The curricula comprised poetics, literature, philosophy, geography, mathematics, physics, and from the end of the century also economics and history. Graduates of the Academy became writers, publishers, translators, prominent diplomats and the men of church.

Talented statesmen - hetmans Samoilovich, Ivan Mazepa, Pylyp Orlyk were its graduates. The founder of the Russian Academy, Mykhailo Lomonosov, the first professor of medicine of Russia Konstantin Schepin, the honorary member of twelve foreign academies Danylo Tuptalo, the prominent portrait painter D.Levitskyi and the architect Hryhorovych-Barskyi studied at the Academy at different times.

In 1817, the academy was closed by a tsar’s decree. It is impossible to estimate the losses to Ukraine caused by this action. The library, the picture-gallery together with the most valuable archives disappeared.

Kyiv-Mohyla Academy only resumed its work in 1991, already as the independent and international University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. Three faculties work now at the University: the humanities, social and natural sciences.

The International Sociological Centre is being created together with the American-Ukrainian Ecological Center, the French-Ukrainian Laboratory of Humanitarian Studies, the Information-Computing Centre, scientific and educational laboratories. A very strong teaching staff is gathered at the Academy. Leading scientists from different countries of the world deliver lectures at the University.

An art gallery, a drama school, and a choir are opened at the Academy. Students have organized the Students’ Brotherhood and yacht club.

An international meeting of UNESCO experts was held in May 1993 at the Academy. Consequently UKMA was granted international university status.