Innovations in the recruitment of foreign students and features of the international activity of higher education institutions – all this was discussed during the “Internationalization of Higher Education: legal regulation of the process of inviting foreign students for study in Ukraine” seminar. The event was held at Sumy National Agrarian University on February 19, 2021.
The main speaker of the seminar Olena Shapovalova, Director of the Ukrainian State Center for International Education, spoke about the specifics of introducing the Unified Interdepartmental Electronic Platform for the recruitment of foreign students to higher education institutions of Ukraine. The government announced the launch of this platform in the autumn of 2020.
According to Olena Shapovalova, the work of the e-platform will be fully automated, without any interference. Each step can be tracked.
Thus, the applicant will register independently, choose a university and specialty, submit the necessary documents exclusively through the e-platform. The university’s operator will process the application and send an educational proposal, indicating full information about the tuition fee, accommodation, etc.
The next step will be the registration of the invitation, which the head of the institution signs with an electronic digital signature through the e-platform. After that, the invitation for study will be displayed in the account.
Olena Shapovalova emphasizes that all communication between the university and the applicant will be exclusively through the platform.
“The e-platform is the most important change in the process of recruiting foreigners, and in order for the university to understand how to advertise itself, how to work under these new conditions, it is necessary to start preparing now. In order to minimize difficulties for the university at the stage of launching the platform, which is planned for the autumn intake of 2021” – said Olena Shapovalova.
Volodymyr Ladyka, Rector of Sumy National Agrarian University, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor, Academician of NAAS of Ukraine, presented to the audience the international activities of the university and outlined the prospects for international cooperation. Among them is the establishment of the Ukrainian-Chinese college in Xinxiang, China.
“Internationalization is one of the most important issues in the development of Ukraine’s education system and our university in particular. And I thank you for choosing our SNAU as the platform for holding such an important event” – said Volodymyr Ladyka.
The moderator of the seminar Sergiy Kurbatov, Advisor to the Presidium of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Professor of the Department of Sociology at KNEU named after Vadym Hetman, in summary, emphasized the importance of forming Ukraine as a regional leader in recruiting foreign students.
At the end of the seminar participants received certificates, and a ceremony of awarding student tickets to students from China who came to study this year took place.
You can listen to the seminar at the link.