education have to search for additional sources of financing. In 1997 33% of the total amount of
financing of the institutes of higher education was received from the non-budget sources, first of all
from paid education.
Non-state institutions of higher education develop more dynamically, they efficiently respond to
the demands of labor market. For example, they establish direct contacts with business firms to
provide their students with opportunities to practice or obtain jobs. They conduct teaching process
in smaller groups, having an opportunity of individual approach to teachers’ payments. Such
institutions pay wages and salaries on a regular basis, teaching process is often implemented with
the help of authors’ methods (International Institute of Linguistics and Law, Kiyiv). At the same
time many of such institutions have problems with technical-material base and teaching staff.
3. Specialists’ Training in Zhitomir region
The level of education in Zhitomir region is comparatively low. As for the number of places in the
higher education institutes per 100 secondary school graduates and number of students per 10 000
of population it is one of the last statistics among all regions of Ukraine.
The Number of the Students
per 10 000 of Population
Academic
Year
Graph 2. The Changing of the Number of Students per 10 000 of Population in Zhitomir Region
Graph 2 shows the increasing the number of students per 10 000 of population in Zhitomir region
from 1994/95 to 1996/97 academic years. If compared with Graph 1, we can observe a general trend
of increasing of the number of students in our region, but figures themselves are in 2,5-3 times
lower than in the country in average.
There are 5 institutes of higher education of the III-IV the levels of accreditation,-Zhitomir
Pedagogical Institute, Agro-Ecological Academy of Ukraine, Zhitomir Institute of Engineering and
Technology (ZIET), Institute of Business and Advanced Technology (IBAT), Military Institute, and
22 institutes of I-II levels of accreditation ( colleges, mechanical and technological schools and
others ).
The author of this report is directly related to two those above-mentioned institutes, he is Rector of
state ZIET and by his initiative there was created a non-state institute in Zhitomir-IBAT and
presently he is the President of the Supervising Council of this institute.
There has been much entrepreneurial activity in the growth and development of ZIET and IBAT.