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Vinnytsia National Technical University

Vinnytsia National Technical University is an educational establishment of the fourth level of accreditation well known both in Ukraine and far abroad.

VNTU consists of 7 scientific and educational institutes:

InAECCS (Institute of Automatics, Electronics and Computer Control Systems);

InCETPEGS (Institute of Civil Engineering, Thermal Power Engineering and Gas Supply);

InPEEEM (Institute of Power Engineering, Ecology and Electrical Mechanics);

InITCE (Institute of Information Technologies and Computer Engineering);

InMBT (Institute of Machine Building and Transport);

InRETEIE (Institute of Radio Engineering, Telecommunication and Electronic Instrument Engineering);

InM (Institute of Management).

The University trains 6000 day-time students, 1500 part-time students, 100 PhD and Doctor degree students, 1000 pre-University students.

The educational and scientific activity is conducted by 47 departments, 26 of which are running branch offices with the enterprises in Vinnytsia and Vinnytsia region. The departments are run by Doctors of Sciences, professors (84% of teaching staff in the graduating departments and 72% of University teachers have scientific degrees and titles). 2% of University teachers have honorary title − Meritorious. 10% are Academicians and Correspondent Members of State and Public Academies.

VNTU is the unique University in Ukraine as introduced in 1991 the three semester study system, two semesters of which are conducted following the curricula and the third one is a working semester. During the working semester the first year students obtain the working profession, corresponding to the future engineering one. The senior students are working on the enterprises independently, improving their qualification. Department for Training and Production Integration has its representatives in all the industrial cities of Ukraine which allows to run the working semesters.

VNTU is given the highest IVth level of accreditation and trains students according to the three stage system Bachelor − Engineer – Master following the curricula, which integrates the peculiarities of national and Canadian system of higher education.

Apart from acquiring the basic specialіty the students are allowed to get the second specialіty by correspondence. Our University is also unique in Ukraine to allow students of any speciality with achievements in sports to obtain the additional specialization − Management of Organizations of Physical Culture and Sports.

One more peculiarity of students training in VNTU allows the Bachelors with the distinction who have the ability to scientific and educational activity to join Masters training courses after four years of Bachelor's training program.

Students of different specialties learn English for Specific Purposes on the level of technical translation which allows them to join the overseas representative offices or work abroad. University campus is located on the lot of 25 hectares in Vinnytsia. 100 km away form Vinnytsia the University owns 10 hectares with the University sports centre. The first and second year students makes it possible to meet eminent people, authors, musicians, artists, theatre and film actors, politicians and religious figures and other people who visit the University. The University has the efficient system for training specialists of higher qualification which has no analogues. Training of scientific and educational specialists is conducted on the post-graduated courses on 19 specialties and on the Doctoral courses on 4 specialities. There are 5 Specialized Scientific Councils for examination of PhD and Doctoral Thesis on 12 specialities.

The University issues the social and political periodical – “Impulse” which is in demand in the region. The University scientific journals on technical, economic and pedagogic sciences approved by the Highest Attestation Board of Ukraine are: “Visnyk of Vinnytsya Polytechnic Institute”, “Optoelectronic Information”, “Power Technologies” and “Information Technologies and Computer Engineering”. Recently initiated scientific journal is “Modern Technologies, Materials and Constructions in Civil Engineering”. The journal “Sententiae” is specialized in the sphere of philosophical sciences.

VNTU is the only permanent member representing Ukraine in the International Association of Inventors IFIA with headquarters in Geneva. The scientists of VNTU are annually awarded medals for inventions presented on the invention exhibitions, organized by IFIA in Jassy (Romania), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Brussels (Belgium), Geneva (Switzerland) and Pittsburg (USA).

The University trains specialists with higher education on the level of Master and Philosophy Doctor in technical sciences for 69 countries in Africa, Asia, South and Central America.

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• Перекладіть на рідну мову наступні словосполучення.

An educational establishment of the fourth level of accreditation, day-time students, part-time students, to be run by, by correspondence, are conducted following the curricula, the three stage system Bachelor − Engineer – Master, to meet eminent people, the post-graduated courses, is in demand in the region.

• Дайте відповіді на запитання.

1. How many scientific and educational institutes does VNTU consist of? 2. Who does the University train? 3. Why is VNTU the unique University in Ukraine? 4. What can you tell about the three stage system in the University? 5. Are the students allowed to get the second specialіty by correspondence? 6. What purposes do students learn English for? 7. Are there Specialized Scientific Councils for examination of PhD and Doctoral Thesis in the University? 8. What periodical does the University issue? 9. Do any foreign students study at the University?

Speaking:

Прочитайте діалог і вивчіть його напамять.

• I would really like to study computing but I can't afford the time or money for a course.

• I suppose you're talking about a full-time course, but that's not the only option you know.

• Well what else could I do?

• You could do it by distance learning. My brother's just completed a distance learning course in HR management.

• Was he satisfied with it? Was it any good?

• Yes, he was, although he said it was tough to come home tired after a day's work and then to do two or three hours of study before going to bed.

Exercise 9. Знайдіть в тексті англійські еквіваленти наступним словосполученням:

Я не можу дозволити собі, я вважаю, єдиний варіант, дистанційне навчання, управління персоналом, чи була з цього користь, було важко.