Foreign Education Programs Research Articles

ANALYSIS OF THE WORLD'S BEST PRACTICES IN TRAINING PHARMACISTS FOR PROVIDING MENTAL HEALTH CARE TO PATIENTS.

The article analyzes and systematizes international documents and research results, which reveal the experience of implementing the best practices in mental health into the educational process of training pharmacists at various levels of education. Available foreign educational programs were analyzed in terms of their form and content. According to the results of the research, it was found out that the practice of professional training of pharmacists on mental health issues is quite widespread at the world level and is presented in various scientific publications. The results of their analysis also indicate different forms of training process organization.

Younger School Age Pupils and Their Perception of Personal and Social Development in the Context of Extracurricular Activities

The aim of this study is to introduce the topic of the Personal and Social Development as part of the educational programs in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic. We studied this theme as a part of an extracurricular education. In comparison to foreign education programs, the Slovak and Czech education programs include fewer topics.In our research, we focused on how pupils in Slovakia in their hobby groups perceived the selected topics of the cross-sectional theme of Personal and Social Development, how the topics were understood and how this theme was reflected in their behavior.

Освітні інновації у підготовці практичного психолога на компетентнісній основі

The article examines the dynamics of changes in higher education of psychologists in the United States from the the 1970s to the present time. The necessity to update the content of professional training of psychologists is presented in the context of the prospects of Ukraine’s membership in the European Union. This update should be done not by blindly copying foreign educational programs, but via adapting the experience of other countries with the best traditions of national higher education.

Colonialism and accounting education in developing countries: The experiences of Singapore and Sri Lanka

This paper provides a comparative analysis of the nature of accounting education in Singapore and Sri Lanka. Both these countries were British colonies for nearly one hundred and fifty years and inherited their accounting education systems from the British. After fifty years of independence, Sri Lanka is still following the colonial system to produce its accountants. Singapore, however, moved away from the colonial system within four years of independence. This paper indicates that if a developing country continues to depend heavily on foreign education programs and accounting bodies to produce accountants locally, the consequences can be less than desireable.