Belarusian universities to admit EurAsEC citizens via interview

EurAsEC Countries get Admission via Interviwe

Citizens of EurAsEC member states will be able to enter Belarusian universities via an interview this year, too. The information was released by Belarusian Education Minister Sergei Maskevich at the joint session of the State Science and Technology Committee, the Belarusian Education Ministry, and the Russian Federation Education and Science Ministry in Moscow on 28 May, BelTA has learned.

The Education Minister remarked that in the last few years citizens of Belarus and Russia enjoyed equal rights as they apply for admittance to vocational training institutions and higher education ones.

“The comparability of the education content at all education levels in our countries is an important achievement secured in recent years,” he said. In particular, citizens of Russia are admitted to Belarusian universities for state-financed education on equal terms with citizens of Belarus – admittance exams in the form of centralized tests.

Apart from that, in 2012 Belarus decided to allow citizens of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan to apply for admittance to Belarusian universities on terms available to foreign citizens – via an interview, with the education cost paid for by foreign citizens. The terms are in effect this year, too. The majority of Russian universities and vocational schools admit Belarusian citizens for fee-based education via an interview. There is no deadline for submitting applications since education begins once the groups are ready.

Participants of the session also discussed the mutual recognition of results of centralized tests in Russia and Belarus. Sergei Maskevich said that the existing proposals to legislate the mutual recognition of results of centralized tests are worth attention but experts have to polish them first.

It was also noted that projects are in progress in Belarus and Russia for the sake of expanding the use of information technologies in the education process, with measures taken to renew the physical infrastructure of classrooms. Cooperation in the advanced training of Belarusian and Russian teachers for the sake of working out new education methods is consistent. Belarusian and Russian pedagogues cooperate in the development of textbooks and teaching materials for secondary education institutions.