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Lukashenko suggests improving motivation for workplace training for students
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MINSK, 18 December (BelTA) – Belarus needs to focus on increasing the flexibility of the vocational education system, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said in his Address to the Belarusian People and Parliament during the second session of the 7th Belarusian People’s Congress, BelTA has learned.
“In the near future, we should take steps to increase the flexibility of the vocational education system. Educational standards and curricula should be revised quickly, in accordance with the needs of employers and the economic situation,” the head of state said.
The president is convinced that specialist training should be shortened further, as long as the curriculum remains rigorous.
“Afternoons should be dedicated to practical work in laboratories, institutions, and enterprises. This way, employers can no longer claim that graduates are unfamiliar with real-world production. The students should also receive some money for this work. We simply need to establish the proper framework for implementation,” the president stated.
The head of state remarked that the quality of education is a vital priority both for the state and society. “It all begins in the classroom,” he stated.
Aleksandr Lukashenko recalled that in 2025 alone Belarusian schoolchildren became the overall winners of the International Geography Olympiad. At the Mathematics Olympiad, the Belarusian team placed 5th among more than 100 countries, ahead of all European nations. These facts were met with thunderous applause from the audience.
“The export of educational services has reached $115 million. But this is far from the limit. In 2025 alone, 35,000 foreign students from 120 countries study here,” the head of state reported.
The president noted that wherever he travels, including in China, people everywhere ask to send their students to Belarus, often requesting grants, meaning at Belarus’ expense.
“But when I meet people in Africa, in Zimbabwe and Algeria, who speak our native language, the Russian language, I think: ‘Well done, Soviet Union.’ There were plenty of grants back then. They trained great specialists. Today, they run their countries,” Aleksandr Lukashenko remarked.
The head of state emphasized that educating foreign students is an asset for Belarus and a valuable resource that later helps advance the Belarusian economy in those very nations.
At the same time, Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed that the most crucial factor is accessibility to domestic education for Belarusians themselves. “And in accessibility, we are world leaders,” the president concluded.
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