According to her, the complaint to the Ministry of Education and Science came from the public organization “Chervoniy Guber”, which is outraged by the mandatory English language tests for admission to NAU.
“According to the applicants, mandatory English proficiency tests for the distribution of students into groups may lead to a violation of the rights of applicants for higher education,” says the letter from the Ministry of Education and Science sent to the university.
According to Semenova, engineering education, international mobility and internships in good companies are impossible without knowledge of English.
“Teaching English to all students in the same way is stupid. Because after school, everyone has a different level of English. Therefore, those who don’t know the language at all need to be taught from scratch. Those who speak it well need help to maintain their level,” Semenova explained.
To do so, the applicant must undergo tests. He stressed that this is not an evaluation score.
“I didn’t pay attention to these pests [ОО “Червоний Губер”]”When they protested against a terrible violation of the law, when I was appointed head of the reorganisation commission and dared to close the channels of corruption of my predecessors. But the madness of ChG is already crossing borders,” Semenova said.
She added that, in her opinion, “not all educational NGOs are equally useful,” and the response letter to the Ministry of Education’s request will be written via the GPT chat, because Semenova’s team “has nothing else to do.”
Context
On June 28, 2023, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky introduced a bill consolidating the status of the English language in Ukraine as a “language of international communication.” The document was determined to be urgent. The explanatory note stated that isUkraine’s integration provides for the recognition of European standards in the field of language policy. At the same time, Ukraine ranks 40th out of 112 countries in terms of English language proficiency. On June 26, 2024, Zelensky signed the law.
in the studio Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, Published on March 23, 2023, it is said that about 23% of Ukrainians can read, write and communicate in English at home or professional level. 51% of respondents stressed that they have some knowledge of the English language. For the entire adult population of Ukraine, the only comprehensive indicator of the level of English language proficiency is 2.86 points on a 10-point scale, according to KIIS.
According to the results of a survey by the Razumkov CenterIn the surveys published on July 26 last year, only 1% of respondents answered that they speak English fluently, 7.5% that they can read, write and speak English, but they do not communicate fluently, 19% that they can speak, read, write or speak English a little, but poorly, 27% can decipher individual words and simple sentences, but cannot read, write or speak at all; another 44% of respondents do not know English at all.
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