March 24, 2015
National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine

On March 24, 2015 nearly thirty (30) representatives from educational institutions, governmental and international organizations and business participated in the 18 Meeting of USETI Alliance partners in Ukraine.

Ukrainian Standardized External Testing Initiative Legacy Alliance (USETI Alliance) objectives are to strengthen institutional capacity of Ukrainian national testing system elements and components; to improve the legislative and regulatory foundations for accessible quality higher education; and to build deeper and more effective public support for the cause of accessible higher education in Ukraine.
The main issues of the meeting were related to the functioning of the Unified State Database on Education and implementation of the admission campaign in 2015. Yarema Bachinskiy, the Project Director of the USETI Alliance has reported to the participants about this both issues in his opening remarks.
Serhij Kvit, the Minister of Education and Sciences of Ukraine hopes that this year external independent assessment will be much more successful. At the same time, Inna Sovsun, the First Deputy Head of the Minister, sees the importance of the throughout information support of the future first year students during this year admission campaign.