The Faculty of Postgraduate Education (hereinafter referred to as the Faculty) is the main organizational, educational, scientific structural unit of the Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force University (KhNUPS), which conducts the educational process and carries out scientific and scientific and technical activities in the training of higher education applicants and students of Advanced Training Courses,  Correspondence Study Courses,  Retraining and Advanced Training Courses,  Professional Military Education Courses, foreign language and professional military education in accordance with the state order for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and other state military formations of Ukraine. The Faculty carries out its activities in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine, the laws of Ukraine “On Education” and “On Higher Education”, other regulatory legal acts in the field of higher education, orders and guiding documents of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine,  the Statute of the University and the Regulation on the University.

     The main tasks of the faculty are:

– development of human resources, strengthening of the material and technical base and scientific and methodological resources to ensure the effective implementation of educational, scientific and other tasks aimed at the implementation of bachelor’s and master’s programs of higher education;

– organization and coordination of educational activities that ensure the acquisition by individuals of the appropriate degree of higher education in their chosen specialties, educational and professional programs;

– ensuring the quality of the educational process in accordance with the standards of higher education, professional standards of military specialists of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the relevant military-accounting specialty and specialization, as well as the requirements of regulatory documents on the organization of the educational process;

– combination of educational, scientific, scientific and technical, methodological, innovative and organizational activities in the educational process;

– creation of conditions for the development of knowledge, skills, abilities and professional growth of the permanent and variable staff of the faculty;

– improvement of scientific and methodological, educational and methodological, material and technical and information support of the educational process;

– constant monitoring of the quality of educational services and activities of graduates, and, if necessary, making appropriate changes to the educational process;

– conducting fundamental, exploratory and applied scientific research on the issues of military, technical, social sciences by departments and a research laboratory;

– carrying out all types of scientific (scientific and technical) work;

– generalization and dissemination in educational activities of the experience of employing military units and subdivisions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Russian-Ukrainian war;

– organization and conduct of scientific work of the research laboratory of the faculty and scientific circles of the departments;        

– providing the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations with highly qualified officer personnel, as well as meeting the educational needs of citizens in acquiring additional knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for the proper performance of military duty both in peacetime and under martial law;

– establishing close international ties;

– monitoring compliance with academic integrity by participants in the educational process.

     The structure of the faculty is determined by the staff of the University in accordance with the requirements of the regulatory legal acts of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Order of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine No. 6 dated 06.01.2025 “On approval of the Generelized Standards for the development of staffing (staffing lists) of higher military educational institutions, military training units of higher education institutions and institutions of professional pre-higher military education, which belong to the sphere of management of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine”.

     The faculty is directly managed by its head.

     The Academic Council of the faculty is its collegial management body.

     The Faculty of Postgraduate Education includes:

– Administration;

– Training Courses;

– Department of Foreign Languages;

– Department of Metrology and Standardization;

– Department of Electrical Systems of Weapons Complexes and Military Equipment;

– Department of Aviation English;

– Research Laboratory.