News on the topic: education
16.11.2009 Rector of Medical University Dismissed for Disclosure of Flaws in Placement of Graduates
The Health Ministry didn’t extend the labor contract to Pavel Bespalchuk, rector of the Belarusian State Medical University. Pavel Bespalchuk could have retired quietly, as many Belarusian officials do. However, he was brave enough to publish a scandalous article in the newspaper Vesnik BDMU (BSMU Courier) under the title Till 31 November. In this publication he describes how the graduates of his university are placed to jobs. He characterized the situation as ‘lawlessness that has reached its apogee’.
14.08.2009 ‘Young Front’ activist Andrei Tsianiuta addressed Russian education minister concerning his expulsion from Bryans Agricultural Academy
Andrei Tsianiuta, activist of the Young Front from Homel, has addressed the Russian education minister with an open letter in connection with his recent expulsion from Bryans Agricultural Academy.
11.08.2009 ‘Young Front’ activist Andrei Tsianiuta secretly expelled from Bryansk agricultural academy
On 10 August Andrei Tsianiuta, Young Front activist from Homel, was detained near his house by policemen and taken to the military enlistment office.
06.07.2009 Police break up opposition summer education camp
On 5 July the police accompanied by several plainclothes persons broke up an educational summer camp organized by the Right-Wing Alliance opposition organization outside the town of Bobr, Krupki region. The youngsters were ordered to leave the place under threat of arrest.
18.05.2009 Ministry of education to close down private universities’ local offices
According to www.regionby.org, thousands of non-Minsk students may be deprived of their right to higher education in case Minister of Education Aliaksandr Radzkou succeeds in his attempt to close down local offices of private universities. As a result, many of them would not be able to commute between their home towns and Minsk. As yet, the Ministry of Education has not arrived at a final decision.
08.05.2009 Student of Warsaw University is not let in Belarus
At the end of April the Belarusian boarder guards annulled the multi Belarusian visa to the student of the department of Belarusian studies of Warsaw University Marta Szymanska and put in her passport the seal ‘Entrance prohibited’.
06.05.2009 Salihorsk police detain "Young Front" activists for defending the right to education
The Young Front activists who were detained on 5 May in the evening in Salihorsk during a picket in support of forcibly drafted Ivan Shyla, were released in three hours.
06.04.2009 Show trial of army evaders conducted at state lyceum
Recently the students of the Belarusian State University have been shown what they could face if they evaded from the army. On 2 April officers of Maskouski district prosecutor’s office and Maskouski district court tried a number of army evaders at the lyceum of the Belarusian State University.
01.04.2009 Teacher Mariana Hruzdzilovich is reinstated to job
On 31 March in the evening the teacher of SOL Minsk education center Mariana Hruzdzilovich was familiarized with the order cancelling the previous order of dismissal.
21.01.2009 Belarusian-language schools to become extinct in 5 years
According to the data, provided by the Ministry of Statistics, only 1.9% of Belarusian first formers go to Belarusian-language schools, which is 30 times less than in 1993. In total, there are 18.4% of Belarusian-speaking schoolchildren, the urban schools having as little as 1.9% Belarusian-language pupils.
14.01.2009 Another civil activist is expelled from educational establishment
Aliaksei Zmushko, coordinator of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy in Rechytsa, has been expelled from Agricultural Academy of Horki.
13.01.2009 Schoolmaster threatens ‘Young Front’ activist with imprisonment
Recently an activist of Homel branch of the Young Front Andrus Kuzmin has been called for a conversation to the headmaster of his school in connection to his detention during New Year celebrations.
12.01.2009 Authorities disrupt parents’ assembly at St.Symon and Alena Church
An assembly of the parents whose children study in Poland on Kalinouski educational program (organized for the people who were expelled from Belarusian high schools because of their political activities) was to have taken place at St. Symon and Alena Church in Minsk at 11 a.m.
11.12.2008 Professor Andrei Kaliada is dismissed from Belarusian Academy of Arts for political reasons
Professor Andrei Kaliada has been dismissed from the Belarusian Academy of Arts because of his collaboration with Belarus Free Theatre and literary translations.
10.12.2008 KGB warns lyceum pupils
On 9 December a KGB officer paid a visit to lyceum #7 to talk to the 18-year-old pupils Siarhei Svirydau and Artur Zaitsau. He introduced himself as Andrei and explained his visit with the necessity to warn them about the inadmissibility of participation in unregistered youth organizations.
