Education system of the Republic of Belarus in October 2024 

Education system of the Republic of Belarus in October 2024
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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. However, the current research demonstrates a completely different tendency, which was connected with the official start of the election campaign in Belarus. Throughout the whole month we recorded a huge number of propaganda and agitation activities in Belarusian education and at the end of the month the scale of such activities reached the total character. Our words are supported by the statistical data of the official resources of the Ministry of Education: on the official site of the Ministry 8 out of 29 news (28%) had ideological coloring, and on the official Telegram channel this figure amounted to 108 out of 287 (38%) news. Thus, for the second month in a row every third news on the official resources of the Ministry of Education had an ideological context, which testifies to the increasing pace of ideologization of Belarusian education. In general, according to the results of the research, we can single out the following features characterizing the development of the Belarusian education system in October:

1. Active propaganda activities of the authorities for the election campaign 2025.

2. Continuation of the authorities’ course to establish total control over the entire education sphere.

3. Implementation of the politicized historical course in educational institutions of Belarus.

4. Preservation of high rates of ideologization in Belarusian education.

5. Strengthening of the pace of militarization of Belarusian education.

6. Active involvement of representatives of the Orthodox Church in the educational process.

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

8. High rates of promotion of the Russian influence in Belarusian education.

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

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12.11.2024