Belarusian education and Russia’s presence in it 

The education system in Belarus is increasingly adapting to the economic needs of the state: the number of state-funded university places with mandatory, university-controlled post-graduation work contracts is growing, and additional obstacles are being created for obtaining education abroad.

Since September 2024, we have observed a constant strengthening of ideologization of Belarusian education, and one of the manifestations of this phenomenon was a constant increase in the share of ideologically oriented news in the information agenda of the official resources of the Ministry of Education.

Monitoring studies of October-November 2024 showed a noticeable strengthening of ideologization of Belarusian education, which, first of all, was connected with the imposition of the theme of elections among school and college students, university students, teachers and professors.

Already in the October monitoring study, we noted a tendency for the strengthening of ideologization of Belarusian education in comparison with the same period of 2023, and the main reason for it was the intensification of the authorities' activity to plant the theme of elections in Belarusian educational institutions.

Last year's monitoring research showed that October in Belarusian education is characterized by some decline in the process of ideologization after the celebration of the important for the authorities People's Unity Day in September.

September in Belarusian education is traditionally associated with the beginning of the academic year at all levels of education.