Resilience as a Strength: End-of-Year Reflections
The academic year has come to an end. For some, it’s just another step towards their professional future. But for our department – and for Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics as a whole – it has been another year of trials that we have endured together: both faculty and students.
We continue to work and teach under constant threat – in a city subjected to daily shelling. And yet NURE keeps educating, and our students keep learning. This perseverance is our unique strength.
For several years now, our department’s academic programmes have included a competency that has become especially relevant in today’s reality:
“The ability to responsibly adapt work processes and personal space to complex and unpredictable situations caused by global challenges.”
This academic year has clearly demonstrated that we do more than meet educational standards – we prepare students for life and work in a real world that is often harsh and unstable.
Our students are learning to operate in environments where the top priority is human life and health. At the same time, we show them how to maintain the continuity of critical processes by modelling this within our own educational framework.
This means our students develop the ability to:
- flexibly combine online and offline learning, depending on circumstances;
- work effectively in both synchronous formats (lectures, webinars) and asynchronous ones (independent study and assignment completion);
- balance group work with individual consultations that require a proactive student mindset;
- use corporate resources by default (such as institutional email and file-sharing systems), as well as request-based access to specialised tools (licensed software, academic databases, and more);
- collaborate in shared digital workspaces, exemplified by the university’s DL platform;
- build their own learning paths – especially in flipped classroom models or when engaged in research projects;
- enhance digital dexterity – mastering new IT tools quickly and independently, often from home, with minimal supervision (yet with on-demand support when needed).
Indeed, learning under such conditions is more challenging. But it also makes our students more resilient, adaptable, and therefore more competitive in the job market. Not everyone can perform under pressure while maintaining high standards, but our students can.
We transform vulnerability into strength.
We do not just educate – we prepare students for life.
