As political leaders continue to seek a resolution to the build-up of Russian forces on Ukraine’s border, international education stakeholders in the Eastern European nation have said that the situation at universities remains stable, writes Viggo Stacey for The PIE News.
In 2020, Ukraine hosted 76,458 international students, 15,718 of whom were from former Soviet states. While the international community has been concerned with tensions around the Russian military build-up, ahead of what some indicate is Russia preparing to invade Ukraine, the director of Ukrainian State Center for International Education told The PIE News the “situation in Ukraine is stable, there is no panic”.
“I would like to stress again that there are no dangers, no problems,” Olena Shapovalova, director of the centre within the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, said. “The Ukrainian universities operate as usual,” she noted.
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Source: University World News