Belarusian universities to admit EurAsEC citizens via interview

      Citizens of EurAsEC member states will be able to enter Belarusian universities via an interview this year, too. The information was released by Belarusian Education Minister Sergei Maskevich at the joint session of the State Science and Technology Committee, the Belarusian Education Ministry, and the Russian Federation Education and Science Ministry in Moscow.
       The Education Minister remarked that in the last few years citizens of Belarus and Russia enjoyed equal rights as they apply for admittance to vocational training institutions and higher education ones. “The comparability of the education content at all education levels in our countries is an important achievement secured in recent years,” he said. 
       Apart from that, in 2012 Belarus decided to allow citizens of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan to apply for admittance to Belarusian universities on terms available to foreign citizens – via an interview, with the education cost paid for by foreign citizens. The terms are in effect this year, too. The majority of Russian universities and vocational schools admit Belarusian citizens for fee-based education via an interview. Participants of the session also discussed the mutual recognition of results of centralized tests in Russia and Belarus.