(2018) Science and education, 11-12, 34-43. Odessa.

Andrii Pidgornyy,
PhD (Candidate of Chemichal Sciences), associate professor,
Tetiana Duda,
PhD (Candidate of Chemichal Sciences), associate professor,
Nelya Guts,
senior teacher,
National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”,
37, Peremogy av., Kyiv, Ukraine

ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERS’ CHEMICAL EDUCATION
SPECIFICS IN THE CONTEXT OF PROVISION OF INTEGRAL
EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF NATURAL SCIENCES IN UKRAINE

In this article, the formation of a competent understanding of the natural science education is considered, because for it to become functionally integral, all its constituent parts must act concertedly within the framework of the future qualification. The quality of education suits the society’s and the state’s current demands because it is fundamental, and the main task of reforming engineering education is to create the conditions for instilling independent, critical, and creative thinking in graduates and to provide professional growth capabilities. The autor analyses the problems of the fundamentality component of the education in the natural sciences disciplines in technical universities. Specifically, we are talking about the gap between the school graduates’ level of proficiency in fundamental disciplines and the requirements thereto in higher educational institutions; also revealed are the problems in the 2016 university admissions process, because of which students with low knowledge of natural sciences entered universities in greater numbers that year. The article demonstrates that it is impossible to ensure further civilisation and technical growth of the society at its current development stage without the fundamental chemical knowledge as an important component of natural sciences.

 fundamental disciplines, monitoring quality of studies, modern facilities of motivation of studies, steady development and safety of society.

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