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For more than 135 years, the Ethical Culture Fieldston School has been committed to excellence in education as it seeks to develop the intellectual, artistic, and moral potential of its students. ECFS serves approximately 1,700 students and 325 faculty and staff in four divisions: Ethical Culture Fieldston Lower Fieldston Middle and Fieldston Upper. Ethical Culture is located in midtown Manhattan, on Central Park West, in a six-story, turn-of-the-century school building the other divisions share an 18-acre campus in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Through an academic program that is demanding, rigorous, and thorough, we encourage our students to challenge themselves in innovative ways so they can reach their highest potential in mind, body, and spirit. We approach education in an interdisciplinary, experiential, and collaborative way, helping our students develop a lifelong passion for learning and an understanding of its relevance beyond the classroom. As ethical learning provides the foundation of all that we do, we emphasize our students’ moral development and guide them towards service and social justice. The admirable successes of our graduates in a wide range of fields—from the arts to the sciences, from business to public service—and their contributions to society attest to the promise of ECFS realized. Felix Adler’s educational vision is as important today as it was when the Ethical Culture Fieldston School was founded in 1878. To continue to realize that vision, we embrace the following ideals: Ethical Learning: The exploration of what it means to be an ethical and responsible member of society forms the core of our curriculum and our school community. We value inclusion as well as economic and racial diversity. We honor all of our students for their unique contributions, cultural background, and beliefs. As we consider service to be critical to the development of character, we incorporate community service into the children’s school experience from the earliest grades. Academic Excellence: Our school achieves academic excellence by challenging students to reach their highest potential in body, mind, and spirit through the humanities, the sciences, the arts, and physical education. The students become active learners and engage in vital discourse in a community of dedicated teachers and an atmosphere of intellectual discipline and creativity. Progressive Education: Through a curriculum rooted in the tenets of progressive education, students become independent thinkers as they learn that asking their own questions and seeking their own answers provides the key to the deepest kind of understanding. Cooperative, student-centered, discussion-based learning and the freedom to make mistakes are part of our students’ everyday lives. With an enduring commitment to excellence in progressive education, we inspire a diverse and joyful community of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and ethical individuals who aim to make the world more humane and just. Aware of the impact of technology on the earth and the people who occupy it, our technology department is striving to make ethical technology purchases for the 2,000+ members of our community. In addition to sustainable IT practices, we support faculty, staff, and students in utilizing technology tools in ways that are driven by purpose, used with intention, and aligned with ECFS's ethical imperative. At ECFS, we recognize and celebrate the importance of critical thinking and inquiry in addition to the acquisition of knowledge learning-by-doing at every stage of development and the engagement and collaboration of teachers and students in the creation and innovation of a rich learning program. We seek to ensure that our school exemplifies the best of progressive education in the 21st century, serving as a national model and demonstrating our preeminence as a leader in this educational field in an increasingly global, interconnected world. View full school

On October 27, 2011, the institution of higher education "The Belarusian state university of culture and arts," the first among the higher educational institutions of culture, was awarded a certificate that the quality management system in projecting and implementation the educational activity in the area of culture and arts, in carrying out educational work, in training skilled personnel, in scientific, innovative and international activities meets the STB ISO 9001-2009 requirements to the quality management system. More than 25 000 young specialists have received diplomas of the University during the period of its existence. Highly professional teaching staff enables the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts to train skilled specialists who possess in-depth specialized knowledge and thorough humanitarian training. Modern curricula and programs, information technologies, and methods of training are introduced into the educational process. The Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts has a high rating among the Belarusian universities thanks to scientific work, innovative educational activity, and wide-range artistic creativity. The structure of the University is based on the main areas of its activities and corresponds to the profile of the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts. The Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts consists of the university administration, six faculties (cult-urology and socio-cultural activity, traditional Belarusian culture and modern Art, musical Art, information, and document communication, correspondence, further education), 22 specialized educational and five general education departments. There are also the following subdivisions and services: the department of education, the department of education quality management system, student area, art gallery, the producer center 'Art- major,' the department of international relations, postgraduate course, the library, editing, and publishing department, the center for information technologies development (the department of information and programming, the department of technical means of education), the administrative and economic department, the operational and technical department, security, cafeteria. Specialists with higher education are trained in 14 specialties, 25 specialty areas, and 26 specializations. Five thousand full-time and part-time students study at the University, 50% of the study at the cost of the Republican budget. The University is located in three academic buildings – building I (17, Rabkorovskaya Str.), building II (18a, Moscovskaya Str.), and building ІІІ (18a, Moscovskaya Str.). There are two student hostels – hostel №1 (15, Rabkorovskaya Str.), hostel №2 (13, Rabkorovskaya Str.). Students are trained in the following specialties: Culturology, Literary studies, Social studies, Holiday direction, Social pedagogy, Socio-cultural activity, Folk art, Art of direction, Choreographic Art, Variety art, Vocal, Library science and Bibliography, Museology and the protection of historical and cultural heritage, Art history, Decorative and applied arts, Wind instruments. The staff of the University is more than 300 people. Among them, 165 hold academic degrees and status, 12 honorary hold titles. Teaching and methodological association on education in the area of culture and arts, including eight research and methodological councils in education areas and specialty groups have been set up to improve the quality of training specialists. The main functions of the teaching and methodological association are participation in the development and advancement of higher education standards, model curricula, and program examination of teaching curricula on the subjects studied harmonization of manuscripts, textbooks, teaching and teaching and methodological supplies. The Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts offers the training of skilled personnel at Master course (specialties: "Theory, methodology, and organization of socio-cultural activity, "Culturology," "Art history," "Library Science, bibliography and bibliology," "Museology, conservation and restoration of historical and cultural facilities," "Art-management"), at the postgraduate course ("Library Science, bibliography and bibliology," "Theory, methodology, and organization of socio-cultural activity, "Theory and history of arts," "Theory and history of culture," "Museology, conservation and restoration of historical and cultural facilities") and a doctoral course. Councils on the defense of candidate and doctoral theses work at the University. The structure of the University also includes the branch office of the faculty of further education in Mozyr. Along with the four-year study, the University provides the shortened term of education for culture and art students based on the contracts with Alexander Pushkin Library College in Mogilev, Grodno art college, and Bobruisk secondary school-college of arts. The personnel of the University includes the leading figures of national culture, famous scientists, tutors, young representatives of intellectual and creative talent of Belarus, who seek carrying out the program of fixation, study, preservation, and translation of traditional and modern Belarusian Art in the variety of its manifestation. There are well-equipped computers and individual classrooms, as well as an audio library at the University. There is a vibrant electronic library, pottery, straw- braiding, tapestry, weaving, painting on fabric, rod-braiding, and ancient Belarusian musical instrument studios that give the opportunity to qualitatively organize the educational process, broaden the potentials of student professional development and gain scientific and creative maturity. Virtually the specialists' continuous training has been created (from school-leavers to high school graduates, MA course graduates, postgraduates, doctoral course graduates). The University is looking to the future with hope. The personnel can train educated and professionally mature national intellectuals who will contribute to the development of culture, Art, and science of Belarus. View full university

The Belarusian State University of Physical Education is the only specialized institution of higher education in the country for training in the field of physical culture, sport, and tourism. The University provides all kinds of educational services: pre-university preparation, university postgraduate education, retraining, and updating specialists in the field of physical culture, sport, and tourism. BSUPC actively conducts basic and applied research on elite sports, mass sports, health-improving, and adaptive physical culture, tourism, develop international relations with foreign education institutions, participate in sports competitions of various levels. Currently, we are training 4,581 students. There are 51master's51master's degree students, 56 postgraduate students, two doctoral degree students, including the citizens of Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, China, China, and Israel. Over the years, we have had students from Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Bosnia, and Herzegovina and other countries. At the University of Physical Culture, there are two sports-pedagogical faculties, the Faculty of Health-Oriented Physical Training and Tourism, the Faculty of Pre-university Training, the Institute of Tourism, the Institute of updating and retraining for managers and specialists, four centers, 34 academic departments, postgraduate and doctoral degree courses, the Theses Defense Board as well as other units and supporting services. The educational process is carried out by about 400 people, including eight doctors and 96 candidates of sciences, 12 professors, 88 associate professors. To ensure the educational process and conduct the research, the University has comfortable auditoriums and lecture halls, specialized labs and classrooms, which are equipped with modern teaching aids, instruments and specialized equipment, video cameras, audio, and video recorders, digital terminal, OHRs and multimedia projectors, scanners, computers, medical diagnostic equipment. In recent years, the country's central sports university's material base and technical equipment have been significantly improved. The sports training complex was built, which houses facilities for basketball and handball, volleyball and tennis, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, the football hall, the gyms for weightlifting, boxing, fencing, gymnastics, precise mechanical action sports, as well as the combined dance hall, skiing center, a shooting gallery, and a medical center. In 2014, we built and put two sports training facilities, the Swimming Pool and the Indoor Athletic Track. The University cooperates with the related departments of other domestic educational institutions. It contributes to the development of relations with leading foreign sports universities in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Bulgaria, Latvia, Sweden, Germany, China, and other countries. BSUPC has guided to the elite sport many outstanding athletes and coaches, including Alexander Medved, Romuald Klim, Vladimir Parfenovich, Elena Belova, Vitaly Scherbo, Ellina Zvereva, Ekaterina Karsten, Alexei Grishin, Dmitry Dashchynski, Victoria Azarenka, Alexandra Gerasimenya, Lubou Cherkashina, Anton Kushnir, Vladislav Goncharov, and many other Olympians has known worldwide. The Belarusian State University of Physical Culture pays special attention to international students' does the best to integrate foreign culturalists in Belarusian living comfortable and culture surroundings, to create comfort conditions for studies, leisure, and sports activities. The University extended the deadline for the foreigners'foreigners' entrance applications. The number of Russian language lessons was increased, and what is more, BSUPC provides international students with the opportunity to handle their favorite sports. The Belarusian State University of Physical Culture has grown from a small sports college, which in 1929 numbered several dozens of students. Nevertheless, just a few years later, in June 1937, 250 students of the Belarusian Physical Training Technical School took part in the All-Union sports parade on the Red Square in Moscow. On July 22, 1937, the Belarusian Physical Training Technical School was reorganized into the Institute of Physical Culture of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. Before 1941, the Institute prepared 102 specialists in the field of physical culture and sport. The Second World War interrupted academic life. About two hundred teachers and students of the Institute were courageously fighting against fascists, joining the ranks of the Soviet Army and partisan detachments. Immediately after the liberation of Minsk from the German troops, on October 1, 1944, the Institute resumed the work. Its buildings and sports facilities were restored mainly by teachers and students. In subsequent years, the Institute has significantly expanded its educational and production facilities. New dormitories, a swimming pool, a stadium, sports facilities were built, and in 1983, a new educational building appeared. In April 1992, based on the Belarusian State Institute of Physical Culture (the winner of the "Red Banner of Labour" award), the Academy of Physical Education and Sports of the Republic of Belarus (since March 2001 known as Belarusian State Academy of Physical Culture) was established. As new departments were opening, there were more and more students. In 2003, the Academy was renamed into the Belarusian State University of Physical Culture (BSUPC). It bears this name to this day. In 2007, the University celebrated its 70th anniversary, which was an important milestone. In the following 2017, BSUPC will hold various festivities devoted to the 80th anniversary of the University. Today, BSUPC is the only specialized institution in the country that trains specialists for sports and tourism. Over the years of its existence, more than 27,000 people have graduated from the University. View full university

Founded in 1969, Kazan State Institute of Culture (KazGIK) is a top-ranked arts and cultural institution in the Volga region of the Russian Federation. In 2002 it officially became Kazan State University of Culture and Arts. As of 25 June 2015, it gained the status of Kazan State Institute of Culture. It is a dynamically developing leading regional center of culture, science, education, and art. It combines in-depth special knowledge with a fundamental classical base and new educational technologies. Kazan State Institute of Culture has a good rating among Russian institutes of higher education due to its high scientific work and innovation courses’ development. KazGIK is represented by more than 190 teachers, including 40 professors and Doctors of Science, 107 senior lecturers. About 70 professors and lecturers of the institute have honorary titles of Tatarstan Republic and the Russian Federation; among them, there are winners of the state awards of the Russian Federation and the Tatarstan Republic or International competitions’ laureates. Our international students actively participate in the work of the International Student Association of the Republic of Tatarstan. Every year we celebrate International Students Day and organize different cultural events and concerts. As of the 2016-2017 academic year, there are about 80 undergraduate and postgraduate international students from Columbia, China, Vietnam, Turkmenistan, Latvia, Chad, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Guatemala, Abkhazia, Syria, Palestine. Participating in festivals and conferences is another opportunity to improve professional skills for students. KazGIK organizes about 15 annual festivals per year. Students become winners of contests and international festivals all over Russia and the world. KazGIK celebrates cultural diversity and intercultural understanding. Students from different socio-economic, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds come to KazGIK across the globe. In addition to learning from one another, students are encouraged to participate in international exchange programs available through Russia and Tatarstan’s study abroad programs, helping them learn a foreign language and deepening their appreciation of global diversity. Nowadays, the Kazan State Institute of Culture is a dynamically developing leading regional center of culture, science, education, and arts. It combines in-depth special knowledge with a fundamental classical base and new educational technologies. KazGIK is a progressively developing institute of higher education, which quickly adapts to current social and economic and social and political conditions, playing a more active integrative role in regional, federal, and international educational space. View full university

Education is an essential factor in the development of the State, strengthening its international position. You have a great chance to obtain an education of high level! Our University will help you develop your skills, bring your talents to light, and become successful and highly qualified specialists in the sphere of culture and arts. Belgorod State University of Arts and Culture is a bridge that will connect your school experience with a successful career in the future. Belgorod State University of Arts and Culture is one of the leading educational institutions in the region, the main aim of which is to train highly skilled specialists in the social and cultural sphere based on a scientifically developed and certified model of ethnic and cultural education according to the following type: Art School College of Culture and Arts University of Arts and Culture Music Conservatory Master's program department of postgraduate education with the succession of curriculums and programs The University's structure consists of 5 faculties, 29 departments, a postgraduate education department, Art school, a spiritual and educational center, Musical College of S.A.Degtyarev, the additional professional's regional center, and a methodical center of artistic education. The teaching staff positively stimulates the quality level of specialists' training. 61% of teachers have science degrees and academic titles, and honorary degrees in arts and culture. There are 20 professors, 30 doctors of sciences, 40 associate professors and 130 candidates of science, 5 People's and 5 Honoured artists of Russia, 4 Meritorious artists, 30 Honoured workers of culture of RF, 1 Honoured worker of higher school, 1 Honoured artist, ten members of the Artists' Union of RF, two members of Architects' Union of RF and eight members of Designers' Union of RF. During its long history, the University has turned into an educational complex. The University actively introduces innovative techniques, uses the newest achievements in the field of arts and culture. BSUAC today is a competitive and dynamically developing higher education institution that provides its students with multi-level training. The University offers its students ample opportunities for personal enhancement. You will be able to do science and to approve yourselves in creativeness. We provide a comfortable environment for study and recreation: there are two concert halls, a sports hall, and a comfortable student residence. Our graduates work at the critical posts of our region's administration; they are directors of district and city departments of culture. They are directors of cultural and educational institutions, form creative collectives, are famous not only in our country but also in our country and abroad. View full university

AUCE founded in 1983 by Dr. Amjad Al- Nabulsi, May God bless his soul, as a Computer and Educational College of Hotel Management & Technical Studies (C & E College) Beirut- Makassed Center, the American University of Culture and Education AUCE is nowadays an institution accredited and recognized by the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education, under the presidential decree #2292, dated June 17, 2009. Preparations for AUCE began in 1995 when Dr. Naboulsi gathered a group of academics who shared his vision. Their joint vision became a reality on August 7, 2000, when the C&E American University Institute obtained its license from the government under Presidential Decree #3585/2000 to offer graduate and undergraduate programs. AUCE's degree programs are accredited and certified by the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Lebanon and by the Ministry of Education & Scientific Research in Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Qatar, and most Arab countries. On April 15, 2010, the American University of Culture & Education got the accreditation of the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education. The American University of Culture & Education (AUCE) thrives on improving and enriching people's lives through education that dramatically engages our students and research that capitalizes on the power of collaboration. Realization of this mission is through: Scholarship and creative endeavor that draws on all forms of inquiry. Learning that is active, creative, and continuous. Promotion of an inclusive culture of global citizenship. The university will also spare no effort to find programs that would serve society and promote it. It will also build relationships with different sectors within the country and outside it. Besides, it will sign agreements and partnership with these sectors, and it will continue to build relationships with the foreign establishments and universities and conduct programs with some of them upon the approval of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, which will ultimately contribute to the development and prosperity of the university. The university will work hard to improve the quality of the academic operation outcomes to find qualified graduates who are creative and able to join the marketplace well-armed with knowledge and information. The university will continue to show an interest in higher studies and scientific research and establish departments for planning, development, studies, investments, auditing, and quality assurance. Moreover, we will try our utmost to turn the university into a scientific edifice, a place which both students and societies will feel proud of through availing themselves of the possibility of developing research and training and building bridges of communication with the society as well as with the private and public academic institutions. We aim to be recognized nationally & internationally as an institution that imagines and influences the future. Toward that end, we will: Support advancement of thriving disciplines as well as new areas of interdisciplinary excellence. Provide students with the knowledge, skills, and experiences necessary to become leaders in a world characterized by rapid change and increasing interdependence. Nurture a community of exceptional scholars who are cooperative and collegial, functioning in an atmosphere distinguished by support, mentoring, and inclusion. Pursue unique opportunities to build on our unique features, including our relationships with world-class corporates, cultural, educational, and scientific institutions in University Circle and Lebanon. View full university

Hamamatsu's city has long flourished as a town devoted to manufacturing products that include textiles, musical instruments, and transportation equipment (vehicles and motorcycles). In recent years, new businesses in the industries such as optical technology and electronic technology have also opened their doors in Hamamatsu. The city has also become known for its commitment to music in hosting various international competitions, one of which is the Shizuoka International Opera Competition, which SUAC is involved in. Located in downtown Hamamatsu, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture was launched in the year 2000 as a university founded and operated with the local industries of Shizuoka prefecture Hamamatsu city. The institution became a public university of Shizuoka prefecture in 2010. Just as Hamamatsu's city has opened itself to the world, SUAC aims to be an open university. Hamamatsu's population includes many non-Japanese, which makes it an advanced urban center in which multiple cultures reside in harmony. It is a very coexistence model, with residents transcending the boundaries of language, customs, and culture that might otherwise divide. We have on our faculty unique professors who are successfully active inside Japan and overseas, and we strive to provide education with practical applications. Shizuoka University of Art and Culture (SUAC) upholds two ideals that we strive to achieve in education, research, and local and international exchange. We educate students to possess a rich sense of humanity and a keen awareness of society and the times. Graduates will join the workforce prepared to engage in many fields in international society actively. We will contribute to developing the local and international communities as an open university that functions as a place for education and research, bridging the local and international communities and multiple generations. SUAC offers two faculties: Japan's first-ever Faculty of Cultural Policy and Management and the Faculty of Design, based on Universal Design principles. Through close interactions between the two, both faculty strive for education and research that nurture a broad perspective. With a student body of over 1,500, our learning arena has been extended to foreign countries through international exchange programs. SUAC is providing research and education activities that make it possible for students to contribute to an enriched future society. All people can accept their differences and respect each other for the comfort of all. Students can learn the rationale for Universal Design, which seeks to create a society and objects that are easy to use for all people, regardless of age, gender, physical ability, and language ability. The principles of Universal Design have even been incorporated into the university's facilities' design and details. Students are actively engaged in activities independently, such as participation and acquisition of awards in Universal Design competitions. The principle of multi-cultural coexistence is that people of diverse nationalities and ethnicities accept their mutual cultural differences and strive for equality. SUAC has a team of specialist professors who are proceeding forward with research, student education, and contributions to the community. Learning activities go beyond lectures and include learning support projects for children of foreign nationalities and volunteering in community events. Art management refers to the management of bands, dramatic troupes, halls, theaters, art museums, etc. This study's characteristic is that it is for the management of non-profit organizations devoted to the public good. As a member in full standing of the AAAE (Association of Arts Administration Educators), the faculty and graduate schools of SUAC provide curricula that meet international standards. Graduates of our undergraduate and graduate schools are currently active in art management at cultural facilities and other venues nationwide. View full university

Lviv State University of Physical Culture - a higher educational institution, which appeared on the centuries-old traditions of national physical culture, is a significant part of Ukrainian culture. Normative terms of Ph. D. training in the postgraduate course is four years. The amount of the educational components of the educational and scientific program of Ph. D. training is 30-60 ECTS credits. The decision on admission to the entrance exams to postgraduate courses pronounced by committee on the interview results, review of essay and presented scientific works took into account the opinion alleged by supervisor. The applicant who comes to a postgraduate study reported in the term of a week. According to requirements, admission to doctoral courses is carried out based on scientific, scientific, and technological advances for the chosen specialty. To doctoral courses are accepted persons, who have a degree of Ph. D., scientific achievements and published works on the chosen specialty (including publications in international refereed journals indexed in scientometric bases, according to with the requirements for academic qualifications of persons who are acquiring degrees) and who have scientific results needed of completion or prepared as dissertations, monograph or scientific report on a set of articles. Receiving applications and documents, entrance examinations, competitive selection, and enrollment lasts during the whole year. The international office was founded in 2008. It coordinates structural division, which aims to develop and implement a strategy for the university's international activities, the expansion, and deepening of the foreign contacts, promote international cooperation in education and science, provide visa support, acceptance, and training of international students at the university. For the first time in Ukraine, in Lviv, a hundred years ago was originated the following kinds of sport: football, basketball, hockey, water polo, archery, cycling. In 1912, at the Olympic Games in Stockholm, Galicia had a representative - sprinter Vladislav Ponurskoho. In general, long before the establishment of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, Lviv 96 athletes, speaking at the Olympics under the flags of Austria-Hungary, Poland, and the USSR, participated in the competitions of 19 kinds of sports, from where they brought 46 medals: 15 gold, 16 silver, and 15 bronze. So creation in Lviv in 1946 Lviv State Institute of Physical Culture had presupposition. May 7, 1946, by the USSR Council of Ministers based on the College of Physical Culture, was established Lviv State Institute of Physical Culture. His task is to prepare highly qualified personnel, especially for the USSR's western regions and scientific development of physical education and sports, scientific and methodological assistance to various sports organizations. Initially, in the Institute was a teaching faculty, 15 departments, 150 students enrolled. In May 1958 institute was given a consultative point of correspondence of the Kyiv Institute of Physical Culture. It started in LDIFK distance learning, and in 1964 formed a separate department. It should be noted that in 1959 the Institute opened school coaches with two years of training, which lasted until 1964. Also, in 1960 began working evening division. In 1969/1970 was opened LDIFK sports department. At that time, specialists were trained at three faculties: teaching, sports, and correspondence. If the 1956 school was 542 students, then in 1974, 1,245 people were trained in stationary and 434 extra-mural students. In the 70s years in the Institute taught: Victor Chukarin - absolute world champion in 1964, USSR - 1949, 1951, 1955 XV-XVI Olympic Games Andrievsky Vadim - USSR Champion in Fencing (1946), honored coach of the USSR, Vladimir Safronov - a champion of the USSR (1975), silver medalist in gymnastics world Cup (1975) and many other celebrities. 1981 Lviv State Institute of Physical Education, one of the country's leading sports educational institutions, celebrated its 35th anniversary. Then he had a structural reorganization. New perspectives for the development of the Institute came after the proclamation of independence of Ukraine in 1991. Given the centuries-old traditions of the Ukrainian Physical Culture, it was necessary to create a national system of physical education and sports, from the introduction of the Ukrainian language in spravoznavstvo and teaching, curriculum development and programs, the publication of educational literature, the introduction of new disciplines, including the history of Ukraine, history of Ukrainian culture, history of Ukrainian sports movement, processing, and finishing and developing Ukrainian sports terminology and education specialists sports profile, including athletes who have felt the connection with the state in which they were born, live, study, for which they compete in different sports forums. To address these challenging tasks, it needed proper material resources, financing, and nationally conscious professionals. This was possible under the favorable political, economic, and spiritual situation in the country. Indeed, the Lviv State Institute of Physical Culture's leadership had to overcome the difficulties experienced by the young state. With an appointment to the post of the rector, the famous sports specialist, master of sports, champion of Ukraine, and the USSR Honored Coach of Ukraine Miroslav S. Hertsyka, in the Institute's development, entered a new period. To expand the areas and improve the quality of training in the sports department in 1996, the department of rehabilitation and recreation was established, and the Department of Economics of Sports, Recreation and Physical culture theory and methodology of Olympic and professional sports. With Ukraine's accession to the Bologna Convention, LDIFK purposefully moves to a modular credit system and introduces new forms and training methods. Institute, according to the list of specialties within their field of physical culture and sports, trains specialists of different levels - bachelors and masters. At the meeting on the occasion of Institute 60 years, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine declared August 3, 2006. View full university

The University College of Economics and Culture was founded on July 23, 1998. The UEC offers a modern study environment – real and virtual lecture rooms, a modern library where you can find many books and periodicals, audio materials, video materials, an electronic data basis, and informative Internet resources in Russian, English, German and other languages. According to the Lisbon Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, a Diploma issued by the UEC is recognized in all the EU countries and other countries. The academic staff includes both local and foreign lecturers. On February 8, 2001, the UEC received the Accreditation Sheet of the University College of Economics and Culture. On November 16, 2006, the UEC was granted permanent accreditation.67% of the UEC academic staff are lecturers with Doctor Degree. The UEC has concluded ERASMUS cooperation agreements with higher educational institutions in France, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Germany, and Hungary. Every year the list of the University College of Economics and Culture partners is expanded with new partners. Every year students and lecturers participate in exchange programs. The UEC is a Baltic University Programme member that unites 160 universities in 14 countries of the Baltic Sea region. In 2013, the University hosted the first Fulbright program scholar. The US State Department finances the program. Students of the UEC choose dynamic, creative, and modern lifestyles – they are the same as their University! Come and join us; your study years will be unforgettable! The main objective of the EKAUniversity internationalization is to enhance international competitiveness by promoting international mobility of students and academic staff, strengthening international cooperation and ensuring its sustainability, attracting foreign academic staff and supporting the integration of international students in the EKA University, thereby contributing to the international reputation of the EKA University and creating high-quality multicultural education environment. View full university

The Latvian Academy of Culture is the higher education institution founded by the Council of Ministers' resolution on December 29, 1990. The Latvian Academy of Culture realizes accredited higher education study programs at Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral levels. The Research Centre and the Creative Activity Centre of the Latvian Academy of Culture and the students and the lecturers of the Academy take part in the realization of the scientific research and artistic creation. The Academy's primary goal is to administer studies at the Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral levels in the Arts and Social Sciences, Theatre Studies, Audiovisual Arts, and Contemporary Dance and others. The Academy also undertakes research projects in the Arts and the Social Sciences fields and realizes artistic creation. The Ministry for Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia has accredited the Latvian Academy of Culture has realized higher education programs and has given the Academy the right to award Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Arts academic degrees till 2019. Eduards Smiļģis Theatre Museum has been a Latvian Academy of Culture's structural unit since June 2, 2009, when it was handed over from the Literature and Music Museum by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia. Riga Film Museum has been a Latvian Academy of Culture's structural unit since January 1, 2010, when the National Film Centre had been reorganized by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia. Since December 31, 2011, the Latvian Culture College has also been under the Latvian Academy of Culture. The Academy's decision-making bodies are the Constitutional Assembly, the Senate, the Rector, and the Academic Arbitration. View full university