Švietimas: politika, vadyba, kokybė /Education Policy, Management and Quality

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Authors: Vincentas Lamanauskas

Future teacher preparation remains a meaningful field of every country and Lithuania as well. Pedagogical internship, undoubtedly, remains a very significant element of pedagogical study structure and process. Competence, practical experience acquisition, personal improvement and all-round knowledge of educational institution are considered the most important advantages of the internship. This is not only a certain future teacher’s self-examination in a real educational environment, but also a proper way to improve. On the other hand, internship organisation is not appropriate enough. A few very important things are obvious: a short pedagogical internship time, coherence with the studies at university, and not sufficiently purposefully defined internship activities (content aspect). Mentors’ work should be improved; however, this is not treated as a very important drawback. Also, two improvement spheres have been exposed: internship content/programme improvement (to concretise, optimise, and more clearly regulate the activities) and strengthening interaction effectiveness between university and basic internship schools. Pedagogical internship effectiveness (from the point of view of pedagogical ability consolidation, improvement) remains undoubted. On the other hand, certain requirements should be raised for the institution, in which students would like and could perform pedagogical internship. Educational institution’s democracy and openness, technological supply, ecological friendliness/suitability are considered the most essential requirements. The existing pedagogical internship model in Lithuania has to be improved in two main directions – process (internship length increasing, guaranteeing the acquaintance with the variety of pedagogical institutions, interaction with the internship leaders and mentors improvement) and content (activity optimisation, innovativeness, variety increase) improvement.

19-28

Authors: Piotr Poita, Uladzimir Navaseltsau, Vitali Khaletski

The main trends of the admission campaign in engineering higher education institutions of the Republic of Belarus were analyzed in the article. The proportion of applicants admitted to the Belarusian technical universities to engineering programs is consistently high and it reaches 30% in recent years. It is shown that in planning of admission campaign the demographic situation should take into account. This is because the majority of applicants for the daily full-time education in Belarus go to universities in the year of graduation of secondary educational institutions. The high competition in the market of educational services from foreign universities, especially from the Republic of Poland and the Russian Federation was noted by the authors. The minimum value of the points of centralized testing in Belarusian or Russian language, Mathematics and Physics is also able to significantly affect the number of applicants.

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Authors: Vincentas Lamanauskas

2nd International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education (BalticSTE2017) „SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: ENGAGING THE NEW GENERATION“ 12-15 June 2017, Siauliai, Lithuania