Abstract
The paper deals with the topic of international academic mobility in Ukraine. It overviews the literature by both national and international researchers on the issue under the investigation and provides a case study of the accomplishments made and pitfalls Ukrainian universities encounter on their integration into the common European educational area. Inconsistent educational legislations between contracting countries, as well as the absence of the uniform legal regulations are stated to be the basic instruments that prevent successful implementing of the programs on academic mobility and factors of major concern that exacerbate the process of students’ or teaching staff’s exchanges, when addressing the topic of academic mobility in Ukraine. A critical study of the analytical data made it possible to spot an array of administrative, managerial, financial, educational proper, and socio-cultural roadblocks that hamper Ukrainian transition into the common European educational area. The authors provide statistics on the top rates countries for Ukrainian outcoming academic mobility, and on the top-rated Ukrainian universities for incoming academic mobility. The research reveals outcoming academic mobility to overweigh incoming one in Ukraine owing to the fact the procedures of transferring a Ukrainian student to a university abroad are less complicated than those of a foreign student to Ukrainian higher education establishments. Finally, there are given suggestions on how it might be possible to align educational curricula with the European principles of higher education to foster international academic mobility in Ukraine.
Highlights
The role of international academic mobility cannot be underrated in the context of internationalization of education around the world
Achieving the goal required the use of research methods that were consistent with the nature of the phenomenon studied and relevant to the tasks mentioned, namely: - a review of scientific literature on the issue studied; - analyzing economic indicators relative to the increase in academic mobility and graphing statistical data that deal with the phenomenon under consideration; - generalizing findings obtained in the process of diagnosing cause-and-effect relations that account for the academic mobility increase among Ukrainian students
The research reveals outcoming academic mobility to overweigh incoming one in Ukraine owing to the fact the procedures of transferring a Ukrainian student to a university abroad are less complicated than those of a foreign student to Ukrainian higher education establishments
Summary
The role of international academic mobility cannot be underrated in the context of internationalization of education around the world. Given the flexibility and responsiveness of European educational space to overseas students’ requests for submission, Ukrainian students get competitive, equal, and transparent chances to enter academic mobility courses In such conditions the function of the Ukrainian educational establishments remains twofold: first, to ensure high quality education for the prospective exchange students, and, second, to promote their potential to self-realize in the advanced countries and in the home and international markets, in so far contributing to the acknowledgement of the Ukrainian educational establishments
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