Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Serhiy Shkarlet held a meeting with rectors of higher education institutions of Odessa region

On July 8, 2021, within the framework of a working visit to Odesa Region, the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Serhiy Shkarlet held a meeting with the rectors of higher education institutions of Odesa region. The meeting was attended by the head of the Odessa regional state administration Serhiy Hrynevetsky and people’s deputies. During the event, many important issues of modern higher education were discussed, including improving the conditions of admission to higher education institutions, improving the formula for allocating state budget expenditures on higher education among higher education institutions, creating safe conditions for organizing the educational process and living in student dormitories, improvement of the Procedure for formation of the minimum amount of tuition fees for higher education on the basis of indicative cost, improvement of the Procedure for the use of funds provided in the state budget of the Ministry of Education and Science for the payment of academic scholarships.

According to Valentyna Protsenko, Doctor of Economics, Vice-Rector for Education Quality Assurance of ONMedU, present at the meeting, the meeting was constructive, and the Government’s decision to improve the distribution of state budget expenditures between higher education institutions was necessary and progressive.