Module 1: Conceptual model and standard of training specialists in Air Transportation Management at the universities of Ukraine

Lecture 1: University structure and organization of curricular and extracurricular student activity

Lecture Outline

1. University structure and organization of curricular and extracurricular student activity

2. Structure of Management and Logistics Faculty

3. Organization of the academic process at the university. Features of ECTS and Grading System

4. Multilevel structure of higher education

5. Bologna process

6. Curricula, syllabi, timetable, education process chart

7. Types of classes

8. Provisional Regulations on exams and graded tests

9. Research work of a student at the university and at conferences

1. University structure and organization of curricular and extracurricular student activity.

The University is composed of seventeen Institutes, four faculties, nine colleges and lyceums, one Technical School, two European Regional Training Centers of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

The book fund of scientific-technical library consists of more than 2,6 million copies. The University has a world’s unique educational hangar, educational airfield, aerodynamic and trainer complexes.

The campus consists of 11 hostels, canteen for 1000 people, internet-cafe, medical center equipped by modern diagnostic and curative equipment, a clinic, Center of Culture and Arts with a 1500 places hall, Center of Sports and Health where various sports teams and winners of competitions of different levels practice. Popular among employees and students is the yacht club and groups of Air Design and Hang Gliding.

The Institute of Economy and Management comprises two faculties:

Faculty of Economy and Enterprises

Faculty of Management and Logistics

The Institute of Economy and Management (IEM) was founded according to Order of 7th February 2003 No. 17/od combining two faculties, the Faculty of Economy and Enterprises (FEE) and Faculty of Management and Logistics (FML).

IEM was headed by Doctor of Science (Economics), Professor V. Schelkunov. On 29 May, 2009 PhD (Economics), Associate Professor Vyacheslav V. Matveev became the Director of the Institute of Economy and Management.

2. Structure of Management and Logistics Faculty.

The Faculty of Management and Logistics provides trainings the specialists with qualifications of bachelor, specialist and master in spheres of management and organization of enterprises’ activities at air transport and other branches of the economy. Also provides trainings at finance management, transport and technical resources’ management by the direction of training 0306 Management and administration, 0701 Transport and transport Infrastructure. The Faculty is headed by PhD (Economy) O. Ilyenko.

The Faculty of Management and Logistics consists of six departments:

Department of Logistics. Founded in February 2003 on the basis of the terminated Logistics and Transport Department, (originally, in 1973, the Department of Commercial Works and Finance). Since April 2003, the Department is headed by Associate Professor M. Grigorak. The Department provides training the specialists with qualification of bachelor, specialist and master for specialty 7.05208 “Logistics”. The training process is provided by 12 teachers, among them 6 are PhDs. The Department provides scientific research in mathematical modeling and economical systems and processes’ optimization, logistic systems projecting, business planning.

Department of Foreign-Economic Activities of Enterprises. Since January 2002 the department is headed by Ph.D. in Economics, professor, "outstanding specialist in education" Valentyna О. Novak.

Teaching staff of the department consists of highly qualified specialists among which are 5 professors, 18 associate professors, 7 assistants and 6 post-graduate students. Graduates receive basic training in the field of Foreign Economic Activities of Enterprises as well as specialized training in organization, planning and management of organizations, firms and their units. These specialties designed for training in an entirely new socio-economic thinking, which are well understand the problems of organization, planning, control and management of foreign economic activity deeply prospectively and systematically able to find various options for solutions, evaluate them and choose the best, to assume responsibility for implementing these decisions.

Air Transportation Management Department. The degree-granting Department provides training of different academic qualification specialists. It also offers the program of post-graduate education for the specialty 6.070101 “Transport technologies (on air transport)”. The Department provides scientific research in spheres of air transportation effectiveness, airline activity and business planning. The Department maintains close contact with the major airlines, airports and agencies of Ukraine and the CIS.

Department of Aerial Works and Services Management. Founded in 2006 on base of the Department of Air Transportation because of increasing demand for specialists for application of aviation in different branches of the economy. It is headed by Associate Professor M. Matiychyk. The Department provides training of bachelors, specialists and masters for Transport Technologies (by types of transport).

Department of Higher Mathematics. The Department of higher mathematics is one of the leading general Departments of the university. It was founded in 1933 during the foundation process of the aviation university. Since September 2006, the department is lead by the dean of the faculty of the aircraft transport technologies, assistant professor I. Lastivka (now former dean).

The Department of Economic Theory. Since April 2000 the Economic Theory Department is headed by Professor, PhD Bilenko Tetyana Ivanivna. Establishment of the Department of Economic Theory as a separate structural element of the university gave its teaching staff new chances to solve scientific, scientifically-methodological issues that the economic science and higher school faced. The department rather quickly became a base department for the preparation of specialists of economic profile. Its teaching staff is regularly supplemented with gifted youth due to admission to scholarly and scientific work the best graduates and aspirants of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv and of other schools for higher education of Kyiv.

Hometask: draw a diagram showing the structure of the NAU and reflecting the place of ATM Department in it.

3. Organization of the academic process at the university.

ECTS system is a model of academic process organization based on a combination of two constituents: module technology of training and credits (Test Units) and covers the content, forms and facilities of academic process, forms of checking students’ knowledge and skills quality as well as academic activity of students both in class and outside it (i.e. self-study). The ECTS system aims at making students work on a systematic basis during the semester in view of their future professional success.

A module is a logically complete, relatively independent integral part of a training course, a set of theoretical and practical tasks of relevant content and structure with an elaborated system of methodical, educational, individual and technological support, a necessary component of which is an appropriate form of grading.

A credit (test unit) is a single unit of measuring work done by students both in class and outside it (Academic Load) which is equivalent to 36 working hours.

A grade is a quantitative measuring unit of students’ learning outcomes assessment, based on a multi-value scale as they perform their pre-assigned set of academic tasks.

The ECTS grading system is a system of measuring the quality of all types of classroom and self-study work done by students as well as the level of their knowledge and skills by assessing them in values according to the 100-value scale with further transfer of these values into the national scale and the ECTS scale.

The grading system envisages the use of the following grades: the current module grade, the module test grade, the total module grade, the semester module grade, the examination grade and the total semester grade.

The current module grade consists of values which a student gets for a certain kind of academic work in mastering a given module, i.e. doing and defending his/her individual tasks at practical classes.

The module test grade is determined in values and in national scale grades as a result of doing the module test.

The total module grade is determined in values and in national scale grades as the sum of the current module grade and test module grade.

The semester module grade is determined in values and in national scale grades as the sum of the total module grades obtained after studying the material of all the modules within a semester.

The examination grade is determined in values and in national scale grades in the result of carrying out the examination tasks.

The total semester grade is determined as the sum of the semester module grade and the examination/differentiated test grade in values, national scale grades and ECTS scale grades.

The grades a student has been given for the different kinds of academic work are summed up and the result constituting a Current Module Grade is entered into the Module Grade Register.

If a student has successfully done all kinds of academic work within the given module and has got a positive Current Module Grade – not less than satisfactory according to the national scale, he/she is allowed to take his/her module test.

Students have their module test in a written form. The procedure, which lasts up to two academic hours, is held by a commission headed by the head of the department responsible for the discipline.

The Current Module Grade in “Introduction into Major” and the Module Test Grade together make up a Total Module Grade whose correspondence to the National Scale is shown in Table 1.1.

Table 1.1

Correspondence between Total Module Grade Values and the National Scale

Total Module №1 Grade Values	National Scale
79-88	Excellent
66-78	Good
53-65	Satisfactory
below 53	Bad

A student is considered to have passed the module if both their Current Module Grade and Module Test Grade are positive, i.e. higher than «bad» according to the national scale, which yields a positive Total Module Grade.

If a student has missed the module test due to any reason (being ill, debarred, etc.), the entry «absent» is made against his/her name in the column «Module Test Grade» and the entry «unclassified» - in the column «Total Module Grade».

The student is considered as not having an academic incomplete if he/she is allowed to take his/her module test but has missed it due to a valid reason. Otherwise he/she is considered as having an academic incomplete.

Further testing the student in this module is done in accordance with the established procedure.

In case if the student received a negative module test rating mark, they have a chance to retake the test according to the established procedure.

In case of retaking the module test, the maximum module test point-based rating mark equals seventeen («Good» mark according to the national scale), i.e. it is three points less.

A student is not allowed to increase his/her positive Total Module Grade by taking a repetitive test.

The Semester Module Grade is calculated as the sum of the Total Module Grades.

The total semester rate for the semester which presupposes the graded test equals the sum of final terminal module rates and the test rate established for each category of the final terminal module rates (for “Excellent” – 12 points, for “Good” – 10 points, for “Satisfactory” – 8 points).

The Semester Module Grade and the Examination Grade together make up a Total Semester Grade whose correspondence to the National Scale and the ECTS Scale is shown in Table 1.2.

Table 1.2

Correspondence of Total Semester Grades to the National Scale and the ECTS Scale

Total Semester Grade Values	National Scale	ECTS Scale
		Grade	Explanation
90-100	Excellent	A	Excellent (excellent performance with insignificant shortcomings)
82 – 89	Good	B	Very Good (performance above the average standard with a few mistakes)
75 – 81		C	Good (good performance altogether with a certain number of significant mistakes)
67 – 74	Satisfactory	D	Satisfactory (performance meets the average standards)
60 – 66		E	Sufficient (performance meets the minimal criteria)
35 – 59	Bad	FX	Bad (bad performance; a second testing is required)
1 – 34		F	Bad (very bad performance; a student shall retake the course)

The Total Semester Grade is entered into the Examination Register and into a student’s record book in values, National Scale grades, and ECTS Scale grades.

The Total Semester Grade is entered into a student’s record book, for example: 92/Ex/А, 87/Good/В, 79/Good/С, 68/Sat/D, 65/Sat/Е, etc.

Credits, according to ECTS, are then summarized, reflecting all types of academic classes the students have had: lectures, practical classes, laboratory and seminar classes, self-study, individual hours and counceling. One credit corresponds with 36 academic hours. The maximum weekly academic load for a student is 54 academic hours or 1,5 credit. One week of internship/practice corresponds with 1,5 credit.

The rating system used in the academic process enables forming a rating list of students headed by the best of them downwards who are provided with specified privileges in their current academic process, scholarship rendering and future admittance to master’s programs.