Inna Sovsun: the system of electronic applications for university entry works - and it’s confirmed by statistics

At a press briefing at the Ministry of Education and Science on 13 July to announce some of the results of electronic applications to universities, statistics were released on electronic submissions to higher education.

Inna Sovsun, First Deputy Minister of Education and Science, stated that as of 15:00 on the third day of filing, 165,900 applications had been submitted electronically, even more than during the same period last year.

"Today the electronic database had recorded 269,000 applications. Of these, more than half were filed electronically. For comparison, there were 251,000 applications last year at the end of the third day", said Inna Sovsun.

Oleksiy Samoylov, Deputy Director of Inforesurs Government Enterprise described how the experience of the past four years shows that electronic applications have proved their effectiveness. Since 2012 the number of electronic applications has increased from 15% to 39% the previous year. But the first days of application submission place the greatest load on the system, and so some applicants may have faced problems in accessing to the system. Currently, Inforesurs is taking all possible steps to level out the peak.

In any case, online applications have significantly far more advantages than the paper system. Some students may recall previous years, when the main feature of the first days of submitting applications was the huge queues for admission committees at each university. In addition, students had to spend time and money to physically get to the selection committees.

The Ministry assured that within three to four days the situation will stabilize and in time everyone will be able to submit their documents to the universities and elected to exercise their constitutional right to education.

"Each subsequent day, applying is easier than the previous one, and we will always work hard to reach the point when every day, starting from the first, will not have any difficulties n applying  due to bottlenecks", promised Oleh Sharov, Director of the Department of Higher Education.