Targeted Cooperation with Special Education Institutions as One of the Modern Priorities of Karazin University

20 august 2025 year

Education

On August 19, 2025, Vice-Rector for Research and Teaching of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Anatolii Babichev held a working meeting with Nataliia Pushkar, Director of the Municipal Institution Kupiansk Special School of the Kharkiv Regional Council.

During the meeting, the Director of Kupiansk Special School outlined the specifics of organizing and conducting educational, medical-rehabilitation, and upbringing processes with special education students according to their nosologies in wartime conditions and within a distance-learning format. She also presented the practical achievements of the school’s teaching staff, recognized at the national level, which can serve as valuable resources for bachelor’s and master’s students in mastering special education programs.

Anatolii Babichev proposed various forms of scientific, educational, managerial, and medical support for the administration, teachers, educators, social pedagogues, psychologists, and medical staff of the special school, provided by the leading departments of Karazin University’s faculties and educational-scientific institutes, to ensure the school’s further stable development.

Acting Director of the Institute for Continuing Education and Distance Learning Mykhailo Tatarynov reported that over the past seven years, creative and innovative practical-oriented ties have developed between Karazin University and the teaching staff of Kupiansk Special School in the field of professional development for management personnel, teachers, educators, psychologists, social workers, and medical staff of the institution. These programs have addressed topical issues of modernizing professional, digital, inclusive, and psychological competencies, including “Teaching Children with Special Educational Needs through Modern ICT,” “Physical Education,” “Management Personnel: Principal of a General Secondary Education Institution,” and “The New Ukrainian Orthography.” For future cooperation, a range of new targeted professional development programs has been prepared for the school’s staff.

Vice-Rector for Research and Teaching Borys Samorodov also took part in the meeting, paying particular attention to the specification of special education curricula for training future specialists of the relevant field at Karazin University.