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Next academic year will end in May 2012, and the external independent testing will finish before the Euro 2012 European Football Championship begins, Minister for Education and Science, Youth and Sport Dmytro Tabachnyk has said.

"The tests and exams in higher educational establishments will be held within an appropriate time frame before the European Championship," he said during an online conference in Kyiv on Friday, when answering a question by Interfax-Ukraine.

However, he said that next year higher education institutions would start accepting the applications somewhat later than this year, probably on July 5, after the Euro 2012 guests leave.

Tabachnyk said that the Cabinet of Ministers had already prepared a relevant resolution.

The minister expressed hope that the document would be approved next week.

According to Tabachnyk, the 2011-2012 academic year will start on September 1.