A total of 26 higher education students were admitted to the final certification.

The chair of the examination commission was appointed as Kateryna Mykolaivna Kudria, Acting Director of the Professional School No. 92, Sievierodonetsk.

The final certification included a comprehensive examination and the defence of qualification papers. The comprehensive examination was conducted in a test format and included questions from pedagogy, psychology, and the theory and methodology of vocational training.

After completing the test component, the students presented their qualification theses. The topics of the qualification works corresponded to current trends in agricultural production development, agricultural product processing technologies, and food technologies.

The students’ works addressed relevant issues of improving technological processes in the cultivation of agricultural crops, proposed solutions for enhancing agricultural machinery, examined innovative technologies for production and processing, and presented projects for food service establishments.

During the defence, the students demonstrated an appropriate level of theoretical preparation, the ability to analyse scientific and professional literature, conduct research, summarise obtained results, and substantiate practical recommendations. Most students confidently mastered the material, provided well-argued answers to the questions of the examination board, and used modern information technologies to present their research results.

The following students defended their works with distinction: Denys Barabash, Yuliia Danylenko, Artem Kirichenko, Danylo Seredych, Lidiia Kulik, Yuliia Tolkachova, and Anatolii Yurchenko.

Members of the examination commission noted the relevance of the chosen topics, the practical orientation of most qualification works, their sufficient level of scientific and methodological support, and their compliance with the requirements for bachelor’s qualification theses.

Based on the results of the final certification, the Examination Commission concluded that the students of the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education in the specialty “Professional Education (Agricultural Production, Processing of Agricultural Products, and Food Technologies)” have successfully completed the educational and professional programme and demonstrated the formation of general and professional competencies necessary for further professional activity.

We congratulate all students on obtaining the Bachelor’s degree.

We wish the graduates every success in applying their acquired competencies in their professional careers and in life.

According to the Department of Professional Education, Restaurant and Tourism Business