In total, about 80,000 foreign students studied in Ukraine. Most students were from Morocco (8,000), Nigeria (4,300), and Egypt (3,500).
Egyptian students who were studying at Ukrainian universities and have managed to escape the war-torn country will be able to resume their studies in their homeland if they meet the entry requirements of private and national universities.
In addition, several eastern European countries, including Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, and Serbia, will allow students who were previously studying at Ukrainian universities, including African students, to complete their studies at their universities and higher education institutions.
Ghanaian medical students have been offered about 250 places at the Medical University of Hungary and St George’s University of Medicine in Grenada.
In addition, Bulgarian universities will also open their doors to those who studied in Ukraine, including Ghanaian students.
The Nigerian government has been in talks with the governments of Poland, Greece, Romania, and Hungary to enable Nigerian students in their fifth and sixth years of medical studies to complete their studies at universities in these countries.
Study abroad portals have also provided a list of medical schools in Europe, including in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Italy, for international students who were enrolled in a Ukrainian university and are looking elsewhere to continue studying for their degrees.
The Afro-German organization, Deutsch Connect, is offering free German language courses for African students who escaped and may want to continue their studies in Germany.
E-platforms can help Africa’s evacuated students
Amid potential harmonization alignment problems between institutions on different continents on the undergraduate level, in particular, and concern over the prolonged disruption of these students’ education, the e-platforms could capture details of affected students to accommodate them at other institutions.
The Conseil présidentiel pour l’Afrique (Presidential Council for Africa, or CPA) in France and the Coopération des Associations Africaines Pour l’Education (Cooperation of African Associations for Education or CAAP Education) has created a personal, educational and academic e-platform for registering Africans who have been studying in Ukraine and whose studies have been disrupted.
The platform aims to enable them to follow the same course they were enrolled in Ukraine at French universities participating in the initiative.
Christel Vacelet, the communications director of the European University Association in Belgium, confirmed that the situation of students, including those from Africa, is discussed in the higher education community in many European countries and the European Union.
Several African countries have also taken steps to help their students if they wanted to complete their studies in their home countries.
Egypt set up an e-platform for returning Egyptian students from Ukraine to register their academic and educational data to examine the available alternatives through their possible
Also, Morocco’s Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation issued a statement , calling upon students who have returned from Ukraine to register their personal and academic data, including their specializations and university levels on an e-platform for allowing them to continue their studies.