Post-Graduate Training

The main way in which research workers and higher school teachers get their scientific training is the post-graduate course. Young people who graduate from schools of higher learning and want to do a post-graduate course take examinations in Philosophy, a special subject, a foreign language, and a computer science. For 3 years a post-graduate student preparing for his candidate’s degree takes an advanced course on the master’s fundamentals and passes exams in them., studies under the guidance of prominent scientists and researchers.

He has to carry out a definite programme of research, obtain new scientific findings, and present his conclusions before a scientific council of the respective higher school or research institution.

In our country we also have an extra-mural course of post-graduate training for people who want to do scientific research but do not want to leave work.

All post-graduate study is free of charge. Those who take a full-time post-graduate course get state allowances.

To receive the degree of Doctor of Science, one has to carry out an absolutely independent major programme of research which, besides yielding new findings should be devoted to an important problem and present some significant scientific conclusions. Following its publication the dissertation is defended publicly by the author before a scientific council entitled to consider doctoral dissertations.

The so-called “beamed” post-graduate course was introduced to train candidates of science, it differs from the regular system in method of student selection. Under this variant, higher schools, scientific research institutions and enterprises are entitled to send their stuff members to post-graduate course and after finishing it, the new candidates are obliged to return to their former place of work.

In general the system of selecting candidates for post-graduate studies and future research work is being improved. More certified inventors and authors of scientific papers are now admitted.

The State provides young people with everything necessary to prepare for a scientific career and enable them to make important contributions to the development of science.

 Words and Expressions to Remember:

post-graduate course	аспірантура
scientific (research) worker	науковий співробітник
to do (to take) a post-graduate course	навчатися в аспірантурі
extra-mural course of post-graduate training	заочна аспірантура
post-graduate (research) student	аспірант
to grant (to offer) smb. a research (post-graduate)	надати можливість кому-небудь навчатись в аспірантурі
associate professor	доцент
dissertation abstract	автореферат
under the guidance (supervision) of	під керівництвом
independent research	самостійне наукове дослідження
to present one’s conclusion	подати свої висновки
scientific council	вчена рада
“beamed” post-graduate course	цільова аспірантура
to receive the degree	одержати вчений ступінь
to defend the thesis	захистити дисертацію
to yield new findings	подати нові дані
to consider	розглянути
by secret ballot	таємним голосуванням
to bestow the scientific degree to the applicant	присудити науковий ступінь пошукувачу
the council’s ruling	рішення вченої ради
to be endorsed by	бути затвердженим
the Higher Certification Commission	Вища Атестаційна Комісія (ВАК)

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