Education Minister Liliya Grinevich stated that Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine had completely or partially ceased to recognize the diplomas of Ukrainian medical higher education institutions.

According to Grinevich, such a decision is due to low scores of incoming medical schools and lack of access to internships, the press service of the Ministry of Education.

"Therefore, we need to determine what changes are needed now to solve these problems and generally improve the quality of providing educational services in medical universities," the minister stressed..

At the same time, she said, in Ukraine medical education is the most rating in the market of educational services for foreign students. Of the more than 64,000 foreigners studying in Ukraine, almost 40% are trained specifically for medical specialties.

In turn, and. Minister of Health Ulyana Suprun noted that it is necessary to increase the requirements for admission of foreign applicants to universities - they should not differ from the requirements for Ukrainian applicants. There should also be no difference to access to postgraduate education.

Source: HB.