ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERS’ CHEMICAL EDUCATION SPECIFICS IN THE CONTEXT OF PROVISION OF INTEGRAL EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF NATURAL SCIENCES IN UKRAINE

In this article, the formation of a competent understanding of the natural science education is considered, be-cause for it to become functionally integral, all its constituent parts must act concertedly within the framework of the future qualification. The quality of education suits the society's and the state's current demands because it is funda-mental, and the main task of reforming engineering education is to create the conditions for instilling independent, critical, and creative thinking in graduates and to provide professional growth capabilities. The autor analyses the problems of the fundamentality component of the education in the natural sciences disciplines in technical universi-ties. Specifically, we are talking about the gap between the school graduates' level of proficiency in fundamental disciplines and the requirements thereto in higher educational institutions; also revealed are the problems in the 2016 university admissions process, because of which students with low knowledge of natural sciences entered uni-versities in greater numbers that year. The article demonstrates that it is impossible to ensure further civilisation and technical growth of the society at its current development stage without the fundamental chemical knowledge as an important component of natural sciences.