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Two-week Internship in the United Kingdom
26.08.24

From August 12 to 23, 2024, representatives of Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University, the Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance at KrNU, the Head of the Center for Quality Monitoring in Education and Academic Integrity, Professor Denys Zagirnyak, Associate Professor of the Department of Accounting and Finance, Head of the Center for Accounting and Financial Innovations Oksana Onyshchenko, and Director of the Center for International Activities, Associate Professor Andrii Gladyr, participated in the "English as a Medium of Instruction" (EMI Teacher Development Programme) as part of the international initiative "UK-Ukraine Twinning Initiative." The EMI Development Programme was conducted at the Centre for International Training & Education (CITE) at the University of Leicester, which has been a twinning partner of KrNU since 2022 as part of the "UK-Ukraine Twinning Initiative."

KrNU representatives were finalists in a competitive selection process conducted by the University of Leicester (UoL) for KrNU faculty members who completed online training from January to June 2024 through CITE’s "English Online for University Staff Ukraine" course. The EMI Programme is funded as part of the project "Development of a Five-Year Roadmap in Aerospace Research, Bioengineering, and Artificial Intelligence," which also included the second summer school at the University of Leicester in the summer of 2024. At this event, Ukraine was represented by both KrNU representatives and staff from Poltava State Agrarian University. Stephan Zeise, an international business consultant with experience in Ecuador, Spain, and Germany, also participated in the EMI course alongside the KrNU representatives.

More About the EMI Course. The course is intended for teachers who use English as medium of instruction (EMI). The course covers methodologies, techniques, and strategies that can be personalized for individual contexts. Throughout the course, participants studied key principles underlying the design and teaching of courses in English, as well as methodologies and strategies for effectively delivering academic content.


Stephan Zeise, Andrii Gladyr, Denys Zagirnyak

As part of the course, participants conducted research and teaching sessions on the following topics:

1 . Leadership in technical Project Team (teaching practice of Stephan Zeise and Andrii Gladyr);

2. Comparative Analysis of Internationalisation Approaches at UoL and KrNU (research work of Andrii Gladyr);

3. Artificial intelligence in education: opportunities and challenges (research work of Denys Zagirnyak);

4. Financial literacy: à need or a blessing (Teaching practice of Denys Zagirnyak and Oksana Onyshchenko);

5. How teachers use technology in teaching: a comparison of educational practices in Ukraine and the UK (research work of Oksana Onyshchenko).

The summer school in Leicester also addressed important issues related to the further development of cooperation between UoL and KrNU. During the visit, the Kremenchuk delegation held meetings with Geoff Green, the University Registrar & Secretary, Phil Horspool, the Director of the Centre for International Training & Education, and Professors Aldo Rona and Tim Pearce. The purpose of the meetings was to discuss the next steps in implementing the five-year cooperation roadmap and planning joint international projects.


Denys Zagirnyak, Geoff Green, Andrii Gladyr, Oksana Onyshchenko

The parties developed and agreed on an action plan for both universities for the next six months, with a primary focus on work related to:

• Academic mobility of faculty and students;

• Cooperation in the energy and security sectors;

• Formation of international consortia for participation in international projects.



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