Ukraine intends to raise stipends to 8,000 hryvnias.
The topic of financial aid is essential for numerous young individuals, particularly those who have recently entered higher education and plan to study on state-funded positions.
Currently, the ordinary academic grant in Ukraine is around 2,100 hryvnias, whereas the enhanced grant amounts to nearly 3,000 hryvnias.
As the former Deputy Minister of Education, Mykhailo Vynnytskyi, mentioned in an interview with RBC Ukraine, these figures are evidently inadequate for completely fulfilling students' requirements, thus scholarship support requires a substantial augmentation.
The Verkhovna Rada is presently examining a significant legal project, No. 10399, which envisions amendments to the framework of student grants.
The central novelty will be the establishment of so-called national grants—elevated disbursements for the most outstanding students. These grants will embrace a fundamentally innovative methodology:
- the sum will correspond with the minimum salary,
- the student will be capable of subsisting adequately on such an allowance,
- the most accomplished students with the highest grades will be entitled to procure it.
Aside from national grants, the legal project also makes provision for an escalation in the measure of conventional grants for all students learning under governmental sponsorship.
Declaration by a Member of Parliament
On August 11, Representative Oleksiy Honcharenko revealed that the sums of specific grants would be augmented beginning September 1.
Specifically, those studying at vocational (vocational-technical) educational establishments will obtain UAH 6,320. Concurrently, students at pre-higher vocational educational institutions (colleges and technical schools) will obtain UAH 7,600. The most considerable payments are allocated to students at higher educational institutions—UAH 10,000—and postgraduate scholars—UAH 23,700.
The deputy clarified that this exclusively pertains to presidential academic grants, and not to all grant varieties.
