Education system of the Republic of Belarus in December 2024 

Education system of the Republic of Belarus in December 2024
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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. The indicators of the official resources of the Ministry of Education are also evidence of the authorities’ course on strengthening the ideologization of the educational process, where in November we recorded a record share of ideologically oriented news on the Telegram channel of the ministry. 

In December, the situation with the ideologization of the news agenda of the official resources of the Ministry of Education became even worse: on the official website of the Ministry 10 out of 25 news (40%) had ideological coloring, and on the official Telegram channel there were 126 such news out of 300 (42%). For the first time in the history of our monitoring research, the share of ideology on both resources reached 40% at the end of the month. The final figures for 2024 also show an increase in the ideologization of the Ministry’s information agenda: 97 out of 297 (33%) news on the official website of the Ministry had an ideological orientation, and on the official Telegram channel this share amounted to 1,301 out of 3,722 (35%) news. Recall that at the end of 2023, the share of ideology was 27% on the website and 30% on the Telegram channel. Thus, more than a third of all news on the official resources of the Ministry of Education for the year were devoted to the ideological component and the trend of recent months, aimed at planting the theme of the upcoming elections, only strengthened the annual information trend. Based on the results of the research, we can identify the following features characterizing the development of the Belarusian education system in December:

1. Daily imposition of the theme of elections in Belarusian education.

2. Institutionalization of political repressions in Belarusian education.

3. Activization of the activity of the Orthodox Church and preservation of its monopoly positions in Belarusian education.

4. Potential problems for non-state educational structures.

5. Preservation of record rates of ideologization in Belarusian education.

6. Introduction of drone control training in Belarusian education.

7. Preservation of dependence of Belarusian education on Russia and China.

8. Continued dissemination of Russian propaganda and preservation of cooperation with the occupied territories of Ukraine.

You can read or download the whole monitoring of education in RB for December 2024 at this link.

 

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