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Urgency of the research. In the official letter of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine dated July 5, 2018 under № 1 / 9-421, addressed to the heads of all higher education institutions, there is the list of 230 religious (‘faith-based’) schools, of which about 44% can be qualified as Protestant.

The list of branches of knowledge and specialties for which training of applicants for higher education is carried out is category (04) "theology" with the corresponding specialty (041) "theology". However, little (if any) comparative research has been done. Thus, there is a strong demand for critical research.

Ukraine has chosen the appropriate path of non-discrimination and equal opportunities for all. Creating uniform terminology is a task that has not yet been accomplished.

Education obtained in religious (‘faith-based’) educational institutions prior to 2018 could be recognized by the MES, and many graduates went through that process, thus a number of graduates with recognized education grows rapidly.

Thus any research in this area will have scientific novelty.

Target setting. Mentioned subject field is not well-researched and that creates an outstanding need to increase co-operation with ‘faith-based’ higher education institutions, study their best practices and make attempts to achieve unified terminology.

Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. There are practically no publications on this subject. There is the terminology used in legal acts, there are single studies of religious (‘faith-based’) higher educational institutions, mainly within the framework of religious studies.

The research objective. To identify the difficulties of achieving non-discriminatory terminology education that would balance correctness on the one hand and scientific and objectivity on the other; to analyse the existing options for the nomination of educational institutions established by religious organizations, by denominations and confessions; to propose the most optimal time frames regarding the religious (‘faith-based’) educational institutions.

The statement of basic materials. The author analyses the three most common ways to address the institutions of higher education established by religious organizations.

Conclusions. Certain terms how ‘faith-based educational institutions’ are being addressed to in Ukraine create some negative connotations. At the same time there is limited room for the use of the most common terminology. However, author comes to a conclusion that the legal status as existing terminology is the best option.

Keywords: ‘faith-based’ educational institutions, recognition of ‘faith-based’ education, Protestants, non-discriminating attitude

 

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