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Ukraine's Education and Science, Youth and Sports Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk has said the university entrance campaign is the most unbiased means to assess the education quality at higher education establishments in Ukraine.

"They say our country does not monitor universities. I think each entrance campaign is the biggest, most widespread and the most precise monitoring. As of today, more than a hundred universities, including state, private, municipal establishments did not even get ten applications or had no entrants at all. Is this not a [type of] monitoring?" Tabachnyk told the Education in Ukraine publication in an interview posted on the ministry’s Web site on Wednesday.

The minister promised to announce the names of the higher education establishments and those their rectors that did not receive any applications from entrants, or only received a few of them after the entrance campaign was over.

Tabachnyk once again called on entrants not to apply for specialties to non-profile universities with the aim of being a competitive participant on the labour market, have education and a diploma of high quality.

"This is why I call on entrants and their parents: don’t enter non-profile institutes, academies and universities, don’t get cheap diplomas of poor quality," Tabachnyk said.