Education in Belarus

 We can say that Belarus has developed its own system of education. It is well-appreciated and valued in the world so many foreign students want to receive training there.  The republic guarantees its citizens the right to universal secondary education and creates means for further professional education. It tries to pay much attention to common human values, developing independent critical thinking instead of simple perception of information.  

In Belarus there are 4 stages of education: preschool education, primary school education, secondary school education, and higher education. Almost 70% of children start attending nursery before going to school. This stage is not compulsory, but is recommended. Primary and secondary school education is compulsory. All in all it last 11 years. Children come to school at the age of 6 or 7. School year begins on September 1st and ends at the end of May. It’s divided into 4 terms. At the end of each term pupils have holidays.The basic goal of school is to provide pupils with knowledge of particular subjects: Russian and Belarusian Language and Literature, Maths, a foreign language, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, History, Geography, IT, PE.

After the 9th form pupils can either enter a college or lyceum or continue education at school.  After the 11th grade pupils usually take part in the Centralized Testing the results of which afford them to enter a higher educational establishment or to get a profession at college.

The main principles of the educational system in Belarus are the priority of human values, national culture as the basis of education, humanism, sense of ecological purpose, scientific basis, support of gifted children and others.