Problems and perspectives of ATE in the framework of collaboration with the British Council

Abstract

This article is devoted to analyzing the problems and perspectives of ATE (Academic Teaching Excellence) in the mainstream of internationalization of education in the epoch of globalization; offering the new approaches in solving the problems arisen during the training process; dissemination urgent information dealing with modern approaches in training; sharing the experience with the colleagues in the framework of the British Council English for Universities Project. A detailed analysis of solving the problems and enlarging perspectives of ATE is given in the article. As we all live in the epoch of globalization and faced with positive and negative features of this phenomenon. Therefore it should be mentioned that to be a competitive person in the changeable market of educational services nowadays, it’s not sufficient to realize one’s ability and skills in a particular training area; it’s necessary to be willing to keep up with the changeable world. It deals with educational (training) process as well. The present article is the authors’ continuation of research papers dealing with sharing experience in the framework of the British Council project ‘English for Universities’. Being the active participants of the British Council activities, the “agents of change” (Garmash Sergii and Sadkovska Valeriia from the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Ukraine) took the initiative to get a new higher educational institution involved in the process of joining the British Council English for Universities Project - the Kharkiv National Medical University (Epidemiology Department). It should be mentioned that the new approaches in training foreign students offered by the British Council were tested successfully. It was the ‘community initiative’.Стаття присвячена аналізу проблем та перспектив застосування викладання фахових дисциплін англійською мовою у напрямку інтернаціоналізації освіти в епоху глобалізації; впровадженню нових підходів у вирішенні проблем, які виникають під час навчання; розповсюдженню необхідної інформації, пов’язаної з сучасними підходами у навчанні; сумісному з колегами використанню досвіду у рамках проекту Британської Ради «Англійська мова – для університетів».