The Ministry of Education and Science has given permission to transfer about 13,000 students to a budget-funded form of education, said the relevant minister Sergei Shkarlett.

According to him, now there is a process of transferring the children of the fallen defenders of Ukraine, participants in hostilities and persons with disabilities as a result of the war, as well as children of residents of especially dangerous territories, who were protected to institutions of professional higher and higher education until 2021, to state-ordered education..

According to the minister, as of December 19, about 13,000. students. This was done through internal redistribution and redistribution of places between institutions of professional higher and higher education subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science.

In total, the ministry received 22,643 applications for transferring applicants to state-funded places from 311 educational institutions.

“All eligible applicants who submitted supporting documents by November 18, 2022 will be transferred to state-funded places,” Shkarlett assured..

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Recall, on October 12, the government agreed on the transfer to the budgetary form of education of students who are internally displaced persons or are in the temporarily occupied territories.