The season of high school preparation

And business can help today's universities, to the knowledge of their graduates matched to market requirements. It becomes the interaction of higher education and business is particularly meaningful and useful for individual industries and training narrow specialists.

The quality of education in Ukrainian higher education raises many questions. And not only because we have all bad - far from it. For some specialties of high school preparation in Ukraine, contrary to common stereotypes, has a very high level. Nevertheless, employers often do encounter a claim, for example, about the fact that today's graduates for practical work are not prepared, they do not represent real challenges that await them in the workplace.

In recent years, there was a tendency - employers want to help universities to adapt to labor market requirements. This is logical - the cooperation between universities and the business benefits everyone: the employer selects the most promising young professionals, universities compete on the quality of training.

A good example of such cooperation - a nationwide contest of the young winemaker, which ended in late May.

The project was organized Evpatoria winery, charities revival of winemaking traditions them. LS Golitsyn, with the support of the Association "Growers and winemakers of Ukraine", as well as the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

The competition consisted of two stages, and the final selection. During the qualifying stage of wine-makers, students competed in the knowledge of winemaking theory. In the second stage the participants of the competition was a practical task to develop their own project, whether manufacturing or formulation technology wine. Responsibility of the job is added that subsequently the winners of the project will be able to implement your own project on the ground - on the current winery.

The competition consisted of two stages, and the final selection. During the qualifying stage of wine-makers, students competed in the knowledge of winemaking theory. In the second stage the participants of the competition was a practical task to develop their own project, whether manufacturing or formulation technology wine. Responsibility of the job is added that subsequently the winners of the project will be able to implement your own project on the ground - on the current winery.

From Kiev Tatiana Zinkevich, ward Marina Bilko, was the winner of the contest. She and three other participants-winners will receive from the charity fund them. LS Golitsyn a cash prize and the opportunity to do an internship at the Evpatoria winery, leader of the wine market of Ukraine, as well as the primary winemaking enterprise "Black Sea Pearl".

The second place was won by Nadezhda Rakusha, a student at the Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies. Her idea, simple at first glance, won the jury members - engineers and practitioners Evpatoria winery with 40 years of experience. "Despite the fact that today in Ukraine there are no technical conditions for the implementation of student proposed the idea and its implementation will need to develop new technical terms, this idea definitely deserves attention," - says chief technology Yevpatoria Winery winemaker Valentine Slyusarenko.

At the same time, head of the winemaking technology Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies, Doctor of Technical Sciences Larisa Osipova, curator Hope Rakusha, announced that it developed a technology student may be recommended for implementation in production, and it is quite capable to her student.

Third place in the competition was awarded to krymchanke Kashirova Valentina, a student of the Crimean Agrotechnological University (Simferopol), which developed the project of your own wine production.

Curator at the University of Simferopol, Head of Wine University, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Eugene Scholz-Kulikov did not hide the joy of the victory of his ward. He also noted that the competition - a considerable leap forward. According to him, such a project - it is modern, the correct approach to the education of young professionals, when selected the most talented and capable students and supported financially.

Summing up the results of the project, director of the Foundation revival of winemaking traditions them. LS Golitsyn Sergey Sinchenko said that the Fund intends to make the competition a constant. According to him, the project allows students to deepen their knowledge of the profession, and manufacturers - to develop capacity, which, particularly in the wine industry, is rapidly aging. Moreover, the project "is a fact still more clearly expressed manufacturer of social responsibility, in particular, Evpatoria winery", - added Sinchenko.

Winemaking in Ukraine - a problem child. Accumulated a century of practical experience, strong scientific and educational school, the huge potential of the industry, and ... a constant threat to the existence - from Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign and ending with the current turbulence in the industry. By the way, among the younger Ukrainian winemakers - the vast majority of girls. Perhaps it is no coincidence, because who does not like young women's hands to nurture "a difficult child"?