Regulation of Higher Education during the Full-Scale War in Ukraine: The State’s Response to Challenges

The article outlines the challenges that higher education institutions have faced since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, as well as responses from both the state and universities. In this context ensuring the safety of staff and students is a priority in the regulation of the educational process. The need for financing, as well as the need to provide psychological assistance to participants of the educational process, are also emphasized. The main attention is paid to ways of adapting to the situation, taking into account the migration of faculty and students, the relocation of universities, and the improvement of blended learning. So, it is necessary to realize what challenges the state should and could respond to (in a situation of rather limited resources). In particular, the need for the development and improvement of distance and blended learning in order to preserve staff and students caused the development of new technologies, relevant competencies in teaching and learning, and led to further digitization of education. At the same time. universities are making a lot of efforts for the internationalization of education. State support of relevant activities is a favorable factor for the further development of Ukrainian education in the context of European integration. The article concludes that a certain restructuring of the educational process, the development of new teaching and learning methods and competencies, the strengthening of ties between Ukrainian universities and the establishment of international cooperation will find their application in the post-war period. The system of higher education will undoubtedly need restoration, but such consequences of the wartime, such as internationalization, the development of information and communication technologies and competencies, will have a positive effect on further development and integration into the EU educational space.