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The institutions will be required to meet minimum conditions for operation that are meant to ensure the quality of education.
The Ministry of Health plans to reduce the total number of places in higher medical educational establishments, while the size of the state order will remain the same, said LB.ua, Minister Viktor Liashko.
He noted that in September there is planned a large meeting with all rectors, specifically of medical faculties, during which they will discuss the healthcare education system in 2035-2040 years.
“If today we do not look at the needs of that time, then it would be a poor deal for us as managers. Perhaps it would be better if there are fewer medical universities, but those that remain should increase the size of the state order, raise the number of people who teach, to provide high-quality education. And in parallel, the issue of medical faculties at classical universities, which are also many, will be resolved,” Liashko said.
Earlier this spring, the head of the Ministry of Health noted that the presence of a hospital at the university and the requirement for 5000 students will sooner or later become mandatory for medical education in Ukraine. Now the minister noted that 5 000 applicants to education at one university allow the university to be sustained and to implement new technologies there. At the same time, this concerns the total number of students across all faculties.
Liashko noted that universities are often not interested in development and student recruitment, and as a result, they degenerate.
“If you asked for financial autonomy, managerial autonomy, if the minister cannot influence rector elections or appoint a rector, then show results. … I will have a tough conversation with rectors. After that I am ready to go to Serhiy Babak and Mykhailo Radutskyi to propose certain changes,” he concluded.
At the same time, in Ukraine only a few medical universities have more than 5000 students — in Kyiv, Lviv, Vinnytsia, and Ternopil. The number of students at other medical higher education institutions, as a rule, ranges from 2500 to 4000.
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