Admission rules for Mykolaiv region should be different from safer regions, — Rector of National Shipbuilding University

Rectors of frontline universities call for changes in admission requirements for applicants. Photo: NikVesti

The rector of the Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding, Yevhen Trushliakov, has called for changes to the admission requirements for applicants from frontline regions. The rules for Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and other regions cannot be identical to those in safer regions.

He said this during a joint briefing of the rectors of the city's leading universities, according to NikVesti.

«In my opinion, our government is not yet thinking as we would like about the children who are here. Especially in our frontline regions. Of course, the conditions for admission should not be the same for children who are and want to enter our universities in the frontline area and, for example, in Western Ukraine, Lviv, Uzhhorod or other cities. I think anyone understands this, there is no need to explain why. And, of course, the exams, for example, the EIT (now the National Multidisciplinary Test (NMT), — note), are something that schoolchildren take. How they pass here, in our regions, and how they pass, for example, in other, safer regions of ours. This also greatly affects the results and then the possibility of admission. Unfortunately, all this is not taken into account, in my opinion,» said Yevhen Trushliakov.

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According to the rector, representatives of universities in the frontline regions have repeatedly appealed to government agencies with relevant proposals. Some of the arguments, he said, have been conveyed and the topic is already being discussed at the level of the Rada.

«A meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science will be held to amend the law «on higher education». It will be about the specifics of admission for the frontline regions. Unfortunately, the rectors were not invited, although we insisted on the opportunity to speak and explain the conditions from the inside,» he said.

He emphasised that he and his colleagues from Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Sumy are in favour of simplifying the conditions for admission to at least contractual education: a positive EIT result would be enough, without excessive barriers.

«I'm not just talking about Mykolaiv region, we have a common position with Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Sumy universities, so all our frontline regions are on the same page,» the rector added.

It should be noted that in August, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he had instructed the government to simplify the conditions for entering Ukrainian universities and increase the amount of student scholarships. The main admission campaign to higher education institutions has officially ended. Over 207,000 applicants submitted more than 904,000 applications for admission. The most popular speciality this year was management.

The Cabinet of Ministers has allocated 30.6 million hryvnias for higher education institutions in Mykolaiv region. The funds will be used to support the work of universities that continue to teach despite constant air raids and shelling.