Education system of the Republic of Belarus in November 2024 

Education system of the Republic of Belarus in November 2024
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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. In November this tendency not only persisted, but also intensified, as evidenced by the data of the official resources of the Ministry of Education. On the official site of the ministry 7 out of 22 news (32%) had ideological coloring, while on the official Telegram channel these figures were 115 out of 300 (38%) news. While the share of ideology on the agency’s website was a fairly standard figure for 2024, the 38% share of ideologically oriented news on the official Telegram channel is a record for the entire history of our observations. Thus, throughout the entire autumn period of 2024, more than a third of the news on the official resources of the Ministry of Education had an ideological context, which is a rather bright marker of the strengthening of ideologization of the educational process. In general, based on the results of the study, we can highlight the following features characterizing the development of the Belarusian education system in November:

1. Unprecedented character of the imposition of the election theme in education.

2. Imitation of the Ministry of Education’s activity on fulfillment of the decisions of the Republican Pedagogical Council.

3. Planting a positive attitude to the Soviet history in Belarusian education.

4. Record level of ideologization in Belarusian education.

5. New projects aimed at strengthening the militarization of Belarusian education.

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

7. Activation of contacts with the occupied territories of Ukraine.

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

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Материал доступен на русском языке: Система образования Республики Беларусь в ноябре 2024

15.12.2024