Ukraine to Inspect ‘Abnormal’ 2,000 Percent Spike in Draft-Age Men Applying for College

Most of those applicants opted for the cheapest courses with minimal requirements.
Ukraine to Inspect ‘Abnormal’ 2,000 Percent Spike in Draft-Age Men Applying for College
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint news conference with the European Commission president following their talks in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Nov. 4, 2023. Anatoli Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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The Ukrainian government will be conducting random inspections at colleges and universities across the country, a decision prompted by a nearly 2,000 percent increase in the number of applications from draft-age men since the full-blown war with Russia began more than two years ago.

Ukraine’s State Service of Education Quality, an agency within the country’s education ministry tasked with overseeing education standards, said it had examined state data on men born between 1964 and 1994 who had either entered or returned to full-time education between 2021 and 2023.