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Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University started its development on March 27, 1920 as the first institution of Luhansk to prepare engineers machine-building enterprises. It had two faculties (machine-building and electrotechnical) with 20 teachers and 132 students. During the World War II (1941-1945), the HEI was evacuated to Omsk. It became the basis for the present Omsk Technical University. After returning to Luhansk, the HEI renewed almost from scratch. By 1960, it had been reorganized several times by joining other educational institutions, enlarging and renaming, and that year it received the pre-war name Luhansk Machine-Building Institute. Volodymyr Dahl EUNU was one of the first universities in Ukraine, which in 2004 joined The Magna Charta of European Universities in Bologna. The next year Ukraine joined the Bologna process. In 2010, V. Dahl EUNU was granted the highest status in Ukraine for outstanding scientific activities – self-governing (autonomous) research university. There are only 14 such universities in Ukraine. The University was one of the largest educational institutions in the country in terms of number of students (more than 35 thousand), teaching staff (more than 900 doctors and professors) and material and technical resources (57 buildings). The structure of Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University included 8 institutes, 17 departments, colleges, technical schools in nine cities of Ukraine, including three cities in the Crimea. There were 110 branches of departments in industries, Centre for Retraining Managerial Staff for Entrepreneurship, Research Institutes for Applied Ecology and Control Systems, 40 research laboratories, 7 educational, and scientific and industrial complexes, 18 educational complexes, a publishing house with a printing office, a television studio, a business centre, etc. The unique scientific library had more than one million copies. Repository consisting of 3000 publications was registered in the international registry of free access resources. It occupied a rightful place in the international Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. It took the 9th place among 39 Ukrainian repositories. The powerful material and technical base was located in 57 academic and laboratory buildings with the total area of 230 thousand sq. m. During the educational process, students used about 3200 modern computers. The University also had a health and recreation resort with 100 places, recreation centres in five cities of Ukraine, most of which were in the Crimea (Yevpatoria, Feodosia and Yalta, Skadovsk) and on the Seversky Donets River 8 dormitories with 4000 seats, 6 canteens with 824 seats, 12 coffee bars with 452 seats, medical posts. The University had stadiums, sports buildings, summer sports facilities, etc. for sports and physical education classes. Women’s University team “Nika-VDEUNU” won the Cup of Ukraine 16 times, and was the silver medallist of the European Cup. View full university

Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University has recently celebrated 395-the anniversary of its founding and 75-th anniversary of Ukrainian pedagogical establishment revival in a picturesque town Kremenets of Ternopil region. This is one of the oldest higher education institutions in western Ukraine, which is now established as a recognized education and culture, science and methodology centre of pedagogical education in Halychyna. According to the Ukrainian higher education institutions' results consolidated rating, the University ranks the second among pedagogical universities. It has received International Academic Popularity and Quality Rating "Zolota Fortuna" laureate diplomas. Special attention is given to faculty professional development. The University graduate school (aspirantura and doctorantura) is functioning successfully. Thirty-eight faculty members defended Doctor of Sciences dissertations and 253 faculty members defended PhD (Kandydat of Sciences) dissertations. It has already become a good tradition for our graduates to seek employment at the University. 68% of teaching staff, 100% of Rector's Office staff, 58% of all deans, 52% department chairs, and 55% of all sciences doctors are our alumni. These figures demonstrate the university high research potential and quality of education. We are proud to state that University has evolved as research and study, science and education centre of Ukraine, a site of international and all-Ukrainian research conferences, congresses, readings, etc., a place of 5 specialized academic councils, with of them awarding Doctor of Sciences degrees, a testing ground for much Ukrainian higher education know-how. Students are offered a wide range of specialities they can choose from during study, and the number of specialities on offer is growing every year. Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology, nine Faculties, University Preparatory Centre and Centre of Further Education, offer their academic programmes to students. Thirty-eight academic departments employ 469 faculty, including one full member and one corresponding member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, three academicians of the Academy of National Higher Education of Ukraine, 53 doctors of sciences, full professors, more than 340 associate professors. Almost 7 000 students are engaged in full-time and correspondence study. University education is based upon the coordinated system of professional orientation. Correspondence School of Mathematics aims to select future Mathematics teachers among gifted students of Ternopil region and other regions of Ukraine. The content of curricula and academic programmes at both undergraduate and graduate levels has been revised and updated with the implementation of a credit-transfer system of study, computer technology, licensing of new specialities. Our students regularly participate in and win all-Ukrainian Olympiads. Success is assured by the university administration's constant attention to the logistical support of the educational process. We have study rooms equipped according to modern standards, laboratories with visual aids and computers. Students can use libraries with necessary manuals and textbooks, unique literature, spacious reading rooms, a virtual library of educational and scientific works. For the convenience of the library visitors the department of scientific and technical information and automation is created, electronic catalogue and electronic versions of publications are significantly replenished. University computer network connects all academic buildings and students' halls of residence with fibre optic complex, which provides access to the Internet. Each student has free access to electronic library funds and electronic versions of our courses and database of other institutions and information centres. Wireless network using Wi-Fi technology is functioning to provide rapid access to internal and external resources via the Internet with mobile devices. We introduce new forms of students' independent work, their consistent and systematic learning online. MOODLE learning management system, which allows faculty to create their unified subject courses, has been launched. We believe that organization of educational process is closely connected with providing the right living conditions for students. There are five modern residence halls, six gyms, sports complexes and tourist centres, an internet cafe, and a sanatorium where more than a hundred people can improve their health. The University provides opportunities for professional mastering specialities and specializations, allowing graduates to feel confident in the labour market, creating conditions for mastering innovative teaching and information technologies. In general, today, we concentrate our efforts on training highly qualified specialists, young, educated people whom our society needs in times of rapid development of science. View full university