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BARANOVICHI, 1 September (BelTA) – The new Education Code will be submitted to the Belarusian parliament in autumn, Belarusian Education Minister Igor Karpenko said during the head of state's visit to the Baranovichi State Vocational and Technical College of Service Industry on 1 September, BelTA has learned.
“The Code is almost ready,” the minister said.
There are 127 institutions of vocational education in Belarus. These are lyceums and colleges. According to Igor Karpenko, only one type of the educational institution will be represented in the new version of the code. It is a professional college. It will implement programs on vocational, secondary and general secondary education. “This is not just a mechanical merger. We are optimizing specialties, selecting qualifications. New professions will be added. We are also optimizing the curriculum. The training period for a number of specialties has already been reduced,” the minister said.
The president emphasized that the new Education Code needs to be introduced as soon as possible.
Aleksandr Lukashenko was updated on the development of the professional education system in the country and the prospects of the college. Then the president got familiar with the educational infrastructure of the facility and the organization of the educational process at the resource center of the college, and visited several training workshops. The students of the college presented the head of state with a two-meter linen towel. “It is not just for me. Excursions are held in the Independence Palace and people will see it,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said accepting the gift.
The Baranovichi State Vocational and Technical College of Service Industry was established in 1964. The educational institution trains sewers, tailors, shapers, insurance agents, salespeople, cashiers, hairdressers, shoe collectors, and designers.
Today there are 127 institutions of vocational education and 111 institutions of secondary special education in Belarus. In the 2019-2020 academic year, they trained some 179,000 specialists.
