Педагогические науки/Проблемы подготовки специалистов

Doctor of Phys. and Math. Sci. Reshetnyak S.O.

National Technical University of Ukraine «Kyiv Polytechnic Institute»

Training Physicists in Ukrainian Technical Universities as a Way to Growth of Industry and Economics

The trend toward a reduction of the state support in the preparation of specialists in physics, which are formed in recent years, causing great concern in terms of the prospects of a development of education and the quality of training of future scientists, not only in the physical sciences.

Note that one of the latest innovations of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine is to reduce the budget financing of training of students in the specialty "Physics". In particular, this year is planned to complete rejection of the budget places on admission of applicants for this specialty in higher educational institutions under the technical direction of the formal pretext of technical universities are non- profile in this specialty. The mere posing of the question in such a manner raises serious doubts as to the adequacy of such judgments.

Really, we all know that physics is one of the basic disciplines in the learning process of students, without exception, all engineering specialties. And it is logical that technical universities prepares specialists in physics, which further provide fundamental training of the engineering staff. Moreover, almost all the technical universities that train specialists in the specialty "Physics", carried out serious scientific research with the assistance of its students, which improves not only their level of education, but also forms the skills needed for future scientists.

It should be noted that all technical universities for decades created the conditions for better training of specialists, physicists, involving well-known scientists, expanding training base, by all means improving the status of physical education. As a result of this new scientific school, prepared candidates and doctors of physical and mathematical sciences, considerably strengthened the base of general scientific training of students, including those have been established and engineering.

Let's just imagine the consequences of such hasty decisions in the near future. Obviously, such a move will lead to the inevitable outflow of serious scientists from the educational process at the faculties, the leading training in the specialty "Physics", primarily due to lack of demand for their knowledge and skills. Naturally, such a large-scale reorganization would make it impossible also the preparation of future candidates and doctors on the basis of these universities. As a result, we get another involutionary spiral in the preparation of highly qualified specialists.

I think it makes no sense to argue that in case of failure of the state budget order, students are unlikely to rush to the training contract in this specialty. Unfortunately, in recent decades, the government refused to support the prioritization of basic scientific disciplines, and the sad outcome of this choice we are able to observe in our days. Really, the innovation component in the domestic industry, which is just based on scientific studies, almost reduced to zero. In addition, a clear priority and the main form of employment are increasingly becoming the sphere of trade with the loss of competitiveness of the knowledge-intensive industries, which inevitably leads to the degradation of the economy.

I also note that, as a rule, the level of training of the majority of graduates in physics disciplines, including technical universities, in the opinion of employers, in most cases, is an example to follow. Even in cases where physicists graduates choose another industry for its work, their level of training allows them to quickly and efficiently learn almost any new activity. And even in this case, when the state could say that, in preparation of the expert-physicist who later chooses to work not on the basic specialty, - the budget money allocated for its training, wasted - this is not correct, since, on in fact, in the output we get a specialist who is able to work successfully and progress in any area, thus developing the state.

Moreover, objectively, most of the universities, which obviously suffer from such innovations, are famous for their high quality training of specialists-physicists. Now the country is bound to lose some of the best representatives of the forge frames – both scientists and teachers.

In summary, I can only add that the adoption of such decisions at the state level should not be restricted to a formal approach and the decision of immediate budget financing problems due to the destruction of the country's future, especially in terms of development. Never before destruction of successful schools of training specialists did not lead to progress, because it is highly skilled and is the basis for building a successful society and a strong state. Therefore, the responsible persons of the Ministry of Education and Science should reconsider their decision and support funding for the training physicists in technical universities of Ukraine.