KYIV, March 18 – Ukraine and the World Bank have agreed on emergency assistance in the field of higher education in the amount of almost $100 million, which will allow the payment of academic scholarships for 172,000 students and social scholarships for 50,000 students of scholarship programs in the 2021-2022 academic year, the World Bank said on Friday night.

"With a new component, the Ukraine Improving Higher Education for Results Project (a joint project of the Ministry of Education and Science and the World Bank) provides funding of almost $100 million to reimburse the government's budget program in the higher education sector," the bank said.