Berlin University Alliance again offers university entrance exams for refugee Ukrainian students
Refugee Ukrainian students will be able to obtain their university entrance qualification in Berlin for the second year in a row. With the support of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA), digital university entrance exams will take place in June and July 2023 at Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin.In addition to the university entrance qualification exams, refugee Ukrainians will also be able to take an exam for admission to a master’s degree program in their home country on June 29. In Berlin alone, 1,700 Ukrainian refugee students have registered to take all the exams together, and the figure for Germany as a whole is 5,800.
The Berlin test centers and their technical infrastructure are provided by the project "E-Assessment Alliance", which is funded by the Berlin University Alliance. In the project, the alliance partners develop common standards for the implementation and didactic quality of digital examinations. The project is part of the cross-sectional area Teaching and Learning of the BUA.
"I am very pleased that the Berlin University Alliance with its project ,,E-Assessment Alliance" can help to maintain research and teaching in Ukraine in these difficult times and strengthen academic ties between Ukraine and Germany," says Niels Pinkwart, Vice President for Teaching and Learning at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The university entrance qualification tests in Ukraine are supervised by Ukrainian teachers who have taught in their home countries and, in some cases, have taken multidisciplinary final examinations there themselves. The Ukrainian Center for Assessment of Educational Quality designs and organizes the exams.
This year, as in the previous year, the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science had asked the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for support in conducting the university entrance tests. In consultation with the BMBF and the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK), the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) was again able to secure six university locations to conduct the tests in 2023, including the alliance partners of the Berlin University Alliance.