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He expressed confidence that the target would be met and Belarusian higher education institutions would have as many as 50,600 first-year students this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 5,800 applicants have been enrolled to study at the expense of their future employers, nearly as many as last year, Bachanovi\u010d said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He described this year\u2019s admission campaign as the most successful in recent history. One in every four new students is a future engineer, and one in every 10 is a future teacher, medical professional or agricultural worker, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A year ago, Bachanovi\u010d also boasted that the enrollment targets for 2025 had been met in full. He said higher education establishments had enrolled 45,500 applicants, including more than 30,500 to study without paying a tuition fee, down from 33,000 in 2024, and 15,000 to study for a fee, down from 16,000 in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during the News Belarus Conference in Warsaw last Sunday, Pavie\u0142 Ciera\u0161kovi\u010d, Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja\u2019s representative on education, warned of what he called the increasing militarization and degradation of Belarus\u2019 educational system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of schoolchildren studying all subjects in the Belarusian language decreases by between 3,500 and 5,000 every year, Ciera\u0161kovi\u010d said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t stop this, none will be left in 18 years,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past five years, Belarus has lost 13,000 teachers, or eight percent of the total number, Ciera\u0161kovi\u010d said, adding that most of them were fired for political reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At universities, according to official statisticians, the share of those holding doctoral or a doctoral candidate\u2019s degree has dropped to 40 percent in five years, which means that universities have lost 2,700 employees with academic degrees, Ciera\u0161kovi\u010d said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 12, Pozirk. 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