Director of the Center for Education Quality summoned to the Rada because of NMT in Odesa Oblast

The director of the Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment (UCEQA) , Tetiana Vakulenko, was summoned to the Verkhovna Rada at 12 p.m. on June 10 after the situation in Odesa, where children were taking 13 hours of NMT.

According to the Judicial and Legal Newspaper, in particular, MPs want to hear how the NMT is going and whether children were offered to take the text in an additional session.

Earlier, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, said that the National Multimedia Test(NMT) in Odesa region was actually disrupted due to air raids.

The room where the NMT was held was not actually ready for martial law and regular air raids. Due to the constant stoppages, the procedure lasted from 9:00 to about 22:00 - more than 13 hours of continuous stress for the children. According to the participants, they were not even provided with basic conditions, such as access to water and food, during this time. Communication with parents was severely restricted: only some children who felt unwell could contact them.

He also noted the situation with orphans, who, according to the Ombudsman, were left completely without any support during their hours-long stay at the testing center.

The Ombudsman called this situation an unacceptable failure of the system of NMT under martial law, which does not provide children with safety, basic conditions, or equal opportunities and actually violates children's rights. In his opinion, such an organization of testing is unacceptable and requires an immediate response from the Ministry of Education and Science and a review of procedures.

The National Multisubject Test (NMT) is a form of bachelor's degree entrance examination for higher education in Ukraine, introduced in 2022 (along with the Master's Comprehensive Test (MCT) and the Master's Test of Educational Competence (MTEC)) due to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is intended to temporarily replace traditional entrance exams in the format of ZNO.

Кирило Бойко