MIP: Specialty "Communication" must be implemented as a field of knowledge of national education system
"This
draft is the result of the discussion which took place during the round-table
conference dedicated to the preservation and securing of specialty “сommunication” to the “List of Sciences and
Specialties within which Higher Education is Provided” approved by the decision
of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Representatives of the Ministry of
information policy of Ukraine, heads of relevant departments of the main
universities of Ukraine, representatives of agencies specialized in the sphere
of mass communications took part in the discussion.
Participants
of the conference have also discussed possible ways of implementation of
specialty “Communication” as an independent field of knowledge.
In
particular, Sergii Danylenko,
acting head of the Department of International Media Communication and
Communication Technologies of the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv noticed that
the adjustment of the regulatory framework which regulates the “List of
Sciences and Specialties within which Higher Education is Provided”
is taking place right now.
“Taking
into account the challenges which Ukraine is faced with in the struggle for
national unity and authority on the international stage and against information
aggression, our country is seeking for scientific and practical developments at
all levels of communications. Hence, communication sciences must be carried out
as an independent field of knowledge, for example, as “Communication Science”
that would include the following specialties: “Journalism and Media
Communications”, “Government (Public) Communications”, “Marketing
Communications”, “International Communications”. It is one of the possible ways
for the development of the field of knowledge that were discussed by experts”,
- highlighted Danylenko.
During the
discussion, more than ten different formulations and proposals related to the
specialties which should constitute the field of knowledge were put forward.
The Ministry of information policy will summarize these proposals and after
analysis of lawyers, will be submitted to the Ministry of education and science
and, later, to the Government.