The rules of getting higher education of the II stage are adjusted in Belarus

The rules for admission of persons for getting higher education of the second stage was amended by the governmental decree of November 17, 2017

Particularly, the document is established the right to enter the magistracy for correspondence and full-time (evening) form only for citizens who have worked for at least 10 months.

Persons who are granted asylum in Belarus also can participate in the competition for admission to the magistracy in the state institutions of higher education at the expense from the republican budget. This provision grants equal right for these persons to receive education as the citizens of Belarus.

With respect to incoming foreign citizens and stateless persons who are temporarily staying or temporarily residing in Belarus, the requirements for admission and the list of documents presented to the admission committee are specified. In addition, a further interview for the academic disciplines has been introduced, and it will help to attract more qualified specialists from this category of people to study at the second stage of higher education.

The document also specified the form of approval of the admission quatas (according to types of educational programs and forms of education). At the same time, norms have been introduced that require to inform the public on the number of places provided for higher education of the second stage at the expense of the budget, and separate contests for studies at the second stage of higher education by correspondence and full-time (evening) forms, paid from the budget and on a fee basis

In order to exclude cases of simultaneous enrollment in two or more institutions of higher education, the norm of granting to the admission committee not a copy of the higher education document but the original was introduced.

In addition, the resolution provides equal conditions for admission to the magistracy in institutions of higher education for all specialties of the agricultural profile.

The rules are specified the procedure for conducting introductory tests and also there are established the procedure for conducting an additional interview on academic subjects.

The document is provided some privileges for the admission to the magistracy without admission tests for persons awarded “The winner of the special fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus for the social support of talented pupils and students” and “The winner of the special fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus for supporting talented youth”.

At the same time, a list of categories of people enjoying the preemptive right to get the higher education of the second education has been added: for a scientifically oriented magistracy, having a higher average grade of a first degree diploma or an education certificate; for a practical-oriented magistracy - received a diploma with distinction or having a higher average grade of a diploma of higher education of the first degree or an education document at the end of the first stage of higher education.

In addition, the decree introduced limits for enrollment within 30 days after the beginning of the academic year, of persons who participated but failed in the entrance competition, for vacancies that appeared as a result of deductions from higher education institution.