MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

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New dormitory for 1030 places is now open in Minsk. This dormitory will accommodate BSMU and BSUIR students. The complex has two separate dormitories, each for respective university. BSUIR one has 20 stories and 530 places. The dormitory has sports and medical facilities, a conference-hall, lavatory room and a café. Tourniquets and video surveillance will be provided soon especially, surveillance on the corresponding territories. Rooms there are as good as if in a fashionable hotel, just check-in, unpack and rest after hard lessons.

Among the officials present during the opening ceremony were Deputy Prime-Minister Igor Petrishenko, Education Minister Andrei Ivanets, Head of the Moskovsky region Tatyana Kolyadko, Deputy Chairman of Mingorispolkom Artem Tsuran as well as BSUIR rector Vadim Bogush.

Mr. Petrishenko noted: “In Belarus students form every oblast are provided with a place in a dormitory but Grodno oblast and Minsk city. In Grodno the figure is 92% and 93% in Minsk, because there are all major universities in the capital.

That is why the head of state came up with a decision in 2020 to build four further dormitories. We opened this dormitory today as part of realization of the decision. We have two more dormitories still in construction and one more on a project sheet. Counting that project, I believe us to reach 93-95% of supply with places in dormitories.  Moreover, there will be additional comfortable living conditions for students and that is an important fact for their support, plus parents will not be worrying about their kid’s whereabouts”, says Deputy Pirme-Minister.

Speaking about foreign students, mr. Bogush says that Belarussian higher education is of high demand abroad. “We have 23 thousand foreign students from more than 108 countries. In order to attract even more students to Belarus we need comfortable dormitories to stay in. All levels of teaching and knowledge bases are not sufficient. We provide foreigners with comfort and construction of dormitories helps their further learning process and it expands cooperation ties between our country and their native one. As result of the previous 8 months of the year our export of educational services soared by 10 % and with the construction of new dormitories we will do our best for it to soar even more”.

“New and comfortable dormitories are financed by the state. We have affordable prices on list of services available at dormitories and we provide everything students need in daily live. We will continue in that fashion for students to study, perform their duties. They have a conference hall to host socio-political events. We use our own materials at construction sites such as construction materials, equipment, furniture and bed coatings - it is all ours and we have everything students need. This is an additional incentive for our manufacturers who work for the construction industry and to ensure the functioning of our dormitories. In the student village, through student self-government and the rector’s stuff, social life must actively develop, so that there is truly a synergy of both training and education and children, having received a worthy specialty, remain in our country and develop the specialties in which they received education in our higher educational institutions ", concluded the Deputy Prime Minister.