Preparation of foreign citizens and stateless persons for admission to higher education institutions of Ukraine is one of the types of educational activity.
Foreigners who have expressed a desire to obtain higher education in Ukraine do not speak the Ukrainian language in most cases, and the level of their secondary or secondary special education needs to be improved to the level of Ukrainian educational standards.
For this purpose, in ONTU, as in many institutions of higher education of Ukraine, in accordance with the Information (License) on the right to carry out educational activities in the field of higher education, approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, a Preparatory Department for Foreign Citizens of the Center for International Activities was established .
The Preparatory Department for Foreign Citizens (PDFC) in our institution of higher education has existed since December 1990. During this time, it changed several times. In 2013, during the structural changes, PDFC merged with the preparatory department for foreign citizens of the former Odesa State Academy of Refrigeration.
PDFC is located separately in educational building No. 4 at the address: Odesa, str. Shady, 9/11.
The main tasks of training trainees for the PDFC are:
- in-depth study of the Ukrainian language, sufficient for further study at basic faculties in higher education institutions of Ukraine. At the same time, the main requirement is the formation of the necessary vocabulary and professional terminology in the foreign student (according to the chosen direction of training), without which further successful training is not possible;
- systematization of knowledge of the level of general secondary or secondary special education received by foreigners at home (or abroad) and bringing it to the level of secondary education requirements in Ukraine. At the request of students, English language study groups can be opened.
PDFC performs the following functions:
- issuance of orders regarding enrollment, exclusion and release of foreign citizens and stateless persons;
- registration and storage of personal files of listeners;
educational activity; - issuance of necessary letters, confirmations, archival and other certificates;
- compilation of programs for each discipline and direction of training, study plans, schedules of the educational process (for each educational group), monthly class schedule;
- organization and conduct of scheduled classes, assessment and examination sessions and unscheduled excursions;
- organization and conduct of professionally oriented and educational work with students;
creation and preservation of an electronic database and archival documents of the PDFC.
Currently, the Preparatory Department for Foreign Citizens of the Center for International Activities of ONTU is headed by Olena SHEVCHUK.