A meeting of the educational and methodological council was held at KSU
On June 25, at Kherson State University, on the ZOOM platform, a meeting of the university's scientific and methodological council was held under the chairmanship of the Vice-Rector for Academic and Scientific-Pedagogical Affairs, Chair of the Scientific and Methodological Council, Daria Malchykova. The meeting was attended by deans of faculties, guarantors of educational programs, and scientific and pedagogical staff.
The last meeting of this academic year began with the approval of reports on the work of the faculty scientific-methodological councils for the 2025/2026 academic year. The Vice-Rector for Academic and Scientific-Pedagogical Affairs, Chair of the Scientific-Methodological Council Daria’ya Malchykova, summarized the results of accreditation expert reviews that took place in the 2025/20 6 academic year. Those present discussed the recommendations of the EG and GER provided for the educational programs «Information Systems and Technologies» and «Medicine» of the second (Master's) level of higher education, which underwent accreditation via distance and blended formats. Particular attention was paid to the issue of eliminating identified deficiencies in the next academic year.
The Deputy Chair of the SMC, Head of the Educational and Methodological Department Tetiana Kornishieva, reported on the recommendation of four professional development programs and provided clarifications regarding the additional competitive selection of contractors for state orders for the training of specialists, scientific, scientific-pedagogical, and working personnel, professional development, and retraining, as well as participation in an experimental project regarding the organization of training for entities providing services to war veterans and their families.
The members of the scientific-methodological council agreed on the results of the selection of elective educational components/academic disciplines/certificate programs of the general training cycle by students of the first (Bachelor's), second (Master's), and third (educational-scientific) levels of higher education in full-time and correspondence forms of study for the 2026/2027 academic year, and discussed the implementation of new editions of the Regulation of Kherson State University on the syllabus of an academic discipline/educational component (order dated 12.05.2020 No. 421-D as amended) and the Regulation on the educational and methodological complex of an academic discipline/educational component of a department of Kherson State University (order dated 01.11.2019 No. 889-D as amended) in the upcoming 2026/2027 academic year.
Those present analyzed the results of a survey regarding the quality of organization and content of internships for 2nd-year students of the second (Master's) level of higher education (1.9 years of study) in full-time mode, and 2nd-year students of the third (educational-scientific) level of higher education in full-time, correspondence, and evening modes, provided by the Head of the Education Quality Assurance Department Tetiana Cherkashyna. In particular, the issue of closing educational programs of the first (Bachelor's), second (Master's), and third (educational-scientific) levels of higher education and making changes to the educational-professional programs of the first (Bachelor's) level of higher education for 2025 was discussed.
The Director of the Scientific Library Alla Koval presented the results of monitoring the placement of educational and teaching-methodological publications that received a recommendation from the Academic Council of KSU in the 2025/2026 academic year in the KSU repository. In particular, all 18 publications that received a recommendation from the university's Academic Council have been placed.
For the purpose of obtaining a recommendation from the Academic Council of Kherson State University, it was decided at the meeting to recommend six educational/teaching-methodological publications for consideration by the university's Academic Council. In particular, it was decided to submit a petition to the Academic Council regarding a decision on opening four educational-professional programs of the first (Bachelor's) level of higher
education, namely:
- Secondary Education (Biology and Human Health. Geography);
- Secondary Education (Mathematics. Informatics);
- Secondary Education (Physics. Informatics);
- Digital Finance and Financial Analytics.
At the meeting, the curricula for the first (Bachelor's) level of higher education for 2026 entrants and transitional curricula for the first (Bachelor's) level of higher education for 2025 entrants were agreed upon, and also the working curricula for the 1st-2nd years of the first (Bachelor's) level of higher education for the 2026/2027 academic year were approved.
Educational and Methodological Department of KSU