ACADEMIC MOBILITY OF STUDENTS OF AGRARIAN UNIVERSITIES: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

The article analyzes the current state of higher agrarian education under the influence of globalization processes. It is noted that agrarian universities expand international ties through their cooperation programs in order to approach the world standards of education and reform the professional training of future specialists. Thus, academic mobility of students is one of the priority directions of international activity of Sumy national agrarian university. The students of SNAU have the opportunity to study at the university partner, take professional practice or internship at the agrarian enterprises of Poland, Germany, the USA, etc. The international educational programs, which contribute to the intensification of academic mobility, are described in the work. Among them are the program Erasmus+ (ERASMUS+ КА 1 and ERASMUS+ КА 2) and the project DAAS. The problems, which influence the development of academic mobility of students of agrarian universities, are determined as well. They are: difficulties with the registration of documents, low counseling support, financing of study; the issue of arrangement, adaptation to a new system of learning, cultural and language adaptation. Some strategies in improving student mobility (such as adaptation of the national system of agrarian education to the and world criteria; coordination of educational programs; creation of information database about world universities, programs of international academic mobility; increase of state financial support; organization of services for the adaptation of students in a foreign environment; attraction of foreign specialists for teaching at Ukrainian agrarian universities; improving the quality of teaching foreign
languages, etc.) are proposed.