Education

02.07.2026

Belarus’s education system in May 2026

The results of the May monitoring study demonstrated the development of previous trends characteristic of Belarusian education in recent years, including restriction of the right to teach for politically disloyal citizens and strengthening of ideological control by the state.

26.06.2026

Changes and trends in the Belarusian education system in the 2025-26 academic year

Designing a mechanism for restricting politically disloyal citizens’ access to teaching, new paths of ideologization of Belarusian education, new directions for the militarization of Belarusian education etc.

22.05.2026

Belarus’s education system in April 2026

The regulatory entrenchment of discriminatory and repressive practices, Increased scrutiny of the private education sector by government regulatory and supervisory agencies etc.

15.04.2026

Belarus’s education system in March 2026

The overall presence of pro-government ideology in the ministry’s information policy remains significant.

01.04.2026

Belarus’s education system in February 2026

The first month of 2026 showed a certain slowdown in the pace of the ideologization and militarization of the education system in Belarus, and this situation can be explained by a combination of several factors.

23.02.2026

Belarus’s education system in January 2026

The last months of 2025 demonstrated not only the preservation but also the further strengthening of the process of ideologization of the Belarusian education system.

06.02.2026

Belarus’s education system in November-December 2025

The first months of the new academic year have demonstrated a continuing trend toward the active presence of ideologization and militarization in the Belarusian education system.

15.11.2025

More military-patriotic clubs and ties with Russia. Belarus’s education system in October 2025

The Belarusian education system has become even more ideologized, militarized, and dependent on Russia. The main trends of the first months of the new academic year in schools and universities of Belarus – in the iSANS report for October.

07.11.2025

Militarization of Belarus’s education system

In 2021-2025, a steady trend towards the strengthening of ideological and military-patriotic education gradually developed in the Belarusian education system.

28.10.2025

The course to ideologization and military-patriotic clubs: how the academic year started in Belarus — review for September 2025

How the academic year started in Belarus: 15,000 fewer first-graders, schools banned phones but allowed smart watches under pressure from parents. There is more ideology and military lessons, which demonstrates the strong influence of the state on the system. Read more in the iSANS report.

18.09.2025

How Belarusian schools have changed in the new academic year — review for August 2025

Starting from this academic year, schools in Belarus have new rules – from a ban on telephones to restrictions on the teaching profession. In general, the education system is becoming more and more ideologized, and pro-Russian influence is reaching the institutional level.

22.08.2025

Record number of «sponsored» students admitted to universities and lifetime ban on the teaching profession. Belarus’s education system in July 2025

The enrollment campaign is coming to an end in Belarus: the enrollment plan for state-funded programs has been fulfilled by almost 100%. However, many of these places were taken by “sponsored” and preferential students.