Young people from Crimea and Donbass want to be given access to all Ukrainian universities
Applicants from Crimea and the uncontrolled part of Donbass must be given access to all higher educational institutions in Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was stated by the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Anna Novosad, speaking at the Unity Forum in Mariupol, the press service of the department reports.
“This year, 1600 applicants from the uncontrolled territories of Donbass and 265 applicants from the occupied Crimea entered our Ukrainian universities using a simplified procedure - this is when they do not take an external independent assessment. And this is the highest figure in the last 4 years, which means that there is interest in studying in that part of Ukraine that is controlled by the government,” the minister said.
According to her, this figure is more than in 2015. Novosad explained: now, in order to take advantage of this simplified procedure, an applicant only needs to contact the so-called educational center “Donbass-Ukraine” or “Crimea-Ukraine”, fill out an educational declaration and pass three entrance tests.
“This sounds good at first glance, but for 5 years we have been providing these graduates from uncontrolled territories - from Donbass and Crimea - access only to a limited list of higher education institutions. Those who enter from Crimea have access in such a southern zone to higher educational institutions - in Nikolaev, Kherson and other southern regions, and those who enter from the occupied Donbass - only to displaced universities. Over the past 5 years, it seems to me that this segregation is slowly exhausting itself, and we must rethink access for these applicants, for our applicants from territories that are ours, to our own higher educational institutions and begin to change it,” the minister noted .
When asked by the moderator how to change this, she replied that, in her opinion, “we just have to look at the admission rules.”
“On the one hand, to give them the opportunity to join not only those institutions that we have identified for ourselves as supporting ones in certain areas, we create such cells there, we encapsulate these people. On the other hand - and this is a difficult question where we need the help of international partners - this is how to prepare these applicants for entry,” the minister added.
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