The current legislation provides for the granting of privileges for obtaining professional, professional pre-higher and higher education to combatants and their children.
Participants in hostilities and persons equated to them will be able to receive full or partial tuition fees from the state and local budgets, preferential long-term loans for education, social scholarships, free textbooks, free access to the Internet and database systems in state and municipal educational institutions, and free accommodation in a dormitory.
Documents confirming the right to study privileges:
- a standardised combatant’s certificate
- a standardised certificate of a person with a disability caused by war
- a standardised certificate of a family member of the deceased (for children of deceased persons under the age of 16 – a certificate issued to the mother or other adult family member of the deceased person or guardian)
- child’s birth certificate
- a standardised certificate of registration of an internally displaced person
- a standardised certificate of registration of the person’s place of residence.
According to the CMU Resolution No. 673 of 29 August 2018, the following have the priority right to use preferential long-term loans for education:
- orphans and children deprived of parental care;
- children with disabilities, persons with disabilities of groups I-III;
- children from low-income or large families;
- persons and children of persons recognised as combatants, persons with disabilities as a result of war, affected participants of the Revolution of Dignity;
- children whose parent was killed (missing) in the ATO area;
- children of persons who died while participating in the Revolution of Dignity;
- children living in settlements located on the contact line;
- children registered as internally displaced persons;
- applicants and those receiving professional pre-higher and higher education who enter or study in specialities (specialisations) for which academic scholarships are established in an increased amount.
In accordance with the CMU Resolution No. 1045 of 28 December 2016, the following are eligible to receive social scholarships during their studies:
- combatants
- persons with disabilities caused by war;
- children of deceased participants of the Revolution of Dignity, combatants or persons with disabilities as a result of war;
- children whose parent was killed (missing) in the ATO area;
- children with disabilities and persons with disabilities of groups I-III;
- persons recognised as affected participants of the Revolution of Dignity and their children;
- children whose parent was killed during mass civil protests.
In case of refusal to provide support, one should contact the rector (director) of the educational institution or file a complaint with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
It should be recalled that the schedule of the national multi-subject test has been approved, and the Applicant’s Day will be held at Poltava Polytechnic on 21 May.
