ON THE ISSUE OF THE FORMATION OF MARITIME ЕDUCATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article provides a comparative analysis of the training of specialists in higher education institutions of the maritime profile of the modern period and identifies the main trends in their training.
Studying the functioning of the network of maritime higher education institutions of the modern period allows to determine common areas of training: shipbuilding, ship power plants, heat (Odessa National Maritime University, Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding) automation and electrical engineering, maritime law, management, economics (National Odessa Maritime Academy, Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding). Higher maritime institutions have marine simulators and training vessels.
The analysis showed that additional attention in maritime higher education institutions is directed to the issues of port mechanization, water transport and shelf structures, transport technologies and systems, engineering hydrobiology, navigation, engineering, maritime transport and technology, ship navigation and energy, marine ecology, safety, river transport, maritime logistics. It was found that universities consider working with foreign students to be one of their priorities.
The analysis of modern areas of training in higher education institutions of the maritime profile shows three main trends: the preservation of classical maritime specialties in spite of financial difficulties due to the low level of group size; updating the areas of training in accordance with the requirements of the time and the requests of applicants, when the specialties "Management", "Economics", "Maritime Law", etc. are introduced, but the vector of application of acquired knowledge in the maritime field is preserved; organization of international cooperation (from the declarative level of cooperation with foreign higher education institutions to the education of foreign students).