MINSK, 5 February (BelTA) – Employer-sponsored education programs will get a new lease on life, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with representatives of the country's academic community on 5 February, BelTA has learned.
“We will place a bigger focus on employer-sponsored education programs. We will certainly do it. It is very important for us to decentralize the labor market and distribute them [young people] away from Minsk: they graduate from university and try to stay here by all means. We need to evenly distribute workforce throughout the country,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
Moreover, the head of state named educators the most important productive force. “Therefore, employer-sponsored education programs will come to play a bigger role,” the president stressed.
According to Aleksandr Lukashenko, it is also important to provide career guidance to students so that they can make a career choice while still at school. A good case in point are classes where students study teaching basics.
“It is worth spending money on. Indeed, if a student enrolls at a university and after a while realizes that it was a mistake, then the huge money spent on this student will go down the drain and we will have to offer retraining programs. It will cost us even more,” the head of state said. He emphasized the importance of practice-based learning at universities. Students should get on-the-job experience starting from the second year at university”, the president believes.
