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The topic of personnel retraining in the country today is more relevant than ever. Even a regulated market economy is precisely different in that some specialties “fall in price,” while others, on the contrary, become highly paid and in demand. Well, to master a new specialty, of course, you need study and a diploma. And it is better if the study is serious and intensive. It is this kind of training, which, in accordance with the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Education, is the implementation of educational programs for additional education of adults, is carried out by the Faculty of Advanced Training and Retraining, which is located in the city of Minsk, on the street. Kozlova, 28. And the diplomas that its graduates receive are highly valued in the labor market. KV talked about the educational capabilities of the faculty and the prospects for its development with its dean, candidate of technical sciences, associate professor Vladimir Alekseevich Fedosenko. - Tell us about the specialties that are studied at the faculty. If we talk about retraining, and this is education for 1.5 - 2 years with a final certification in the form of a state exam or defense of a diploma project (work) with the issuance of a state diploma, then we are currently implementing three educational retraining programs: Basic - “Information systems software”. At the turn of the 21st century, I was one of the developers of the new specialty “Web design and computer graphics” for Belarus and the entire CIS, both for students and for retraining specialists. Since 2009, recruitment for this specialty began at our institute. Since 2013, we have been providing training in the retraining specialty “Automotive Electronics”. Students study car electronics not only in theory, but also on bench equipment in specially equipped classrooms. In addition, we have a vehicle and bench equipment specially purchased for training purposes. This allows you to get acquainted with electronic systems in practice, to “touch” them, so to speak, with your own hands. In addition to retraining, we conduct advanced training courses (more than 100 courses), computer educational courses, and provide training in working professions. You don’t have any kind of budget or outside support, a centralized influx of listeners. How do you manage to “keep your mark” in teaching, recruit students, groups, and provide them with everything they need? We really do not have a budget and a flow of students directed by ministries in accordance with annual plans for advanced training, as happens in sectoral institutions of further adult education (UDE). In this sense, it is not at all easy for us, since we have to assemble groups on our own. Basically, we provide recruitment using contacts with enterprises of the university, institute and personal connections, as well as using various marketing tools. The university brand also plays a significant role. “BSUIR - knowledge and lifestyle!” - this is the slogan of the university. And behind it stands a half-century history of training the engineering elite. In fact, today BSUIR is a brand for those who want to master a profession in the IT field. Our diplomas are respected far beyond the borders of Belarus. And in the field of adult education, we try to maintain a high level of learning. Learning should not be easy, because “a cakewalk in knowledge” is simply a waste of time. - There are probably still a lot of competitors? Of course, a lot. The market for IT specialties is a very attractive segment, the word “programmer” is now in fashion, it goes well with the words “high level of earnings”, “high standard of living”. And this attracts both students and educational institutions seeking to join in meeting the growing demand. Perhaps one of the most popular retraining specialties in the IT field is “Information systems software.” Our competitors, educational institutions implementing this program in Belarus, are more than sixteen. But when the question arose of developing standard curricula and educational standards for this specialty, BSUIR was assigned to do this work. We did it. It was our methodological base that became the basis for other paroles. And, of course, we have a good idea of how IT should be taught. Therefore, there is every reason to consider us market leaders in this segment. - And everyone agreed with your proposals and standards? Well, complete agreement is very rare. We have repeatedly had to enter into disputes and disputes with representatives of other educational institutions. We were offered to strengthen teaching in the field of mathematics and significantly expand the block of humanities. With all due respect to both the exact sciences and the humanities, it should be noted that retraining is aimed, first of all, at acquiring professional knowledge and skills. The short duration of study, as well as the knowledge base acquired by the student while mastering the educational program of higher education, also influence the formation of the list of disciplines. So our task? give future specialists the most necessary and important things. One more aspect. We were very persistently asked to abandon our diploma design work. Of course, from the point of view of economic feasibility, replacing diploma design with a state exam is beneficial for any parole. They gathered students, tested their knowledge and issued a diploma. But our position on this issue is fundamental. We believe that we do not have the moral right to assign qualifications to a specialist without checking his ability to apply the acquired knowledge in practice, without completing a project. I know that IT students from a number of faculties of different educational institutions in our country defend their diploma projects and works, limiting themselves to demonstrating drawings and posters and/or showing a set of slides in MS PowerPoint format. In our country, a mandatory condition for defense is the demonstration of the software product developed by the student to the state commission. It is interesting to note that after we defended our position and the standard curricula and standards we developed were approved, some educational institutions stopped retraining in this specialty due to a lack of specialist teachers. Moreover, the development of specialties has begun, similar in name to the one indicated above, but with a “lighter” educational program. - Obviously, the workload of your listeners is considerable. They don't complain? We regularly conduct surveys. And, indeed, it happens that we come across cases when they write “a lot of tasks” in the questionnaires. But, nevertheless, in almost every subject, students are asked to increase and increase the number of practical works. Students often stay after classes, bombarding the teacher with questions. Our students have a very strong motivation to gain knowledge and skills. After all, education is paid, almost all students pay out of their own pockets, and the invested own funds motivate like nothing else. Moreover, if the students are dissatisfied with the level of the teacher’s qualifications, if the teacher cannot find a common language with the audience, if he does not explain clearly? Students immediately contact the dean’s office with a request for a replacement. And we change teachers. Up to 40% of teachers who come to our faculty from student faculties do not stay with us or are forced to sharply raise their level of qualifications. Let me draw your attention to the number of classroom sessions. It is no secret that the correspondence form of education is based on a large percentage of the work performed by the student independently. Therefore, the number of classroom sessions for full-time and part-time students may differ several times. During retraining, when developing standard curricula, we deliberately brought the number of classroom sessions for correspondence students to the maximum level allowed by law, reducing to a minimum the difference in classroom hours between different forms of education. For example, in a discipline, evening students have 28 hours of lectures, correspondence students have 24 hours, laboratory classes for evening students have 32 hours, and correspondence students have 28 hours. After all, we study the most complex disciplines that require deep immersion under the guidance of a mentor. But we have made things easier. For example, we did not have two sessions with correspondence students, as usual, but three, shorter in duration. Moreover, they limited the number of disciplines that must be passed in one session - to 3, and not 5-6 as with the usual, “classical” approach. We decided to take this step after polling and questioning listeners over a number of years. So it’s not easy to study with us; mastering the educational program will require mental effort, time, and, of course, financial investments. But they come to us because they know that here the training will be effective, and the assessment of knowledge will be objective.
With paid training it is clear - people come on their own, wanting to learn something and pay money for it, they are vitally interested in knowledge. Do companies send people to you? Of course, they send you to advanced training courses (we have more than 100 of them). But there is practically no need for retraining. Previously, there were cases when enterprises paid for retraining for their employees; I don’t remember this in recent years. Moreover, since employers were legally removed from the obligation to allow students to attend sessions, we are faced with cases of employers obstructing the training of their employees. Thus, we have letters in which the employer reports his disinterest in having his specific employee undergo retraining in an IT specialty. Another example is that an employee of one of the Minsk enterprises comes to us for an evening education. As soon as his immediate superiors find out about this, the guy is constantly assigned exits for the second shift. As a result, a person drops out of education due to the inability to attend classes. Another recent example is when a listener is drafted into the army. He manages to complete and pass all the disciplines, write his thesis project, and all that remains is to appear for the defense. But they don't let him go. His relatives contacted the military unit with a request, I personally called and persuaded him to let the man go for just a couple of hours for protection, because I consider getting an education a valid and justified reason. Not at all. I had to postpone defending my thesis project until the future. I would like to draw attention to an increasingly serious problem - a decrease in the level of basic knowledge of students. The changes that have taken place in school education, aimed at significantly reducing the volume and level of knowledge, primarily in physics, are making themselves felt. I recently took an exam on computer networks for students who came to receive higher education after college. There are students who are confused about the units of measurement of voltage (called “amps”, “joules”), do not know what “interference” and “diffraction” are, and are at odds with optics (it’s especially offensive that this applies specifically to technical colleges). It turns out that colleges have reduced physics to a minimum or eliminated it altogether in the hope that students will retain the knowledge acquired at school. Against this background, students who come for retraining after the age of 30 stand out for the better, who can often provide a significant head start to the younger generation in terms of the level of basic knowledge. Currently, the university trains engineering personnel in 28 specialties in the field of computer technology, computer science, radio engineering, microelectronics, telecommunications, automated systems, artificial intelligence, automatic control, electronic apparatus engineering, medical electronics, and economics. More than 10 thousand students, including from countries far and near abroad, study at 9 faculties and 35 departments in full-time, evening, correspondence and distance learning. The educational process and scientific research are provided by highly qualified teachers, among them academicians and corresponding members of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus, 10 academicians of industry academies, full members of the New York Academy of Sciences, 60 professors and doctors of science, more than 300 associate professors and candidates of science. The University has opened an Institute for Advanced Studies, specializing in: information devices and computers; information technology software and others. Many professors and researchers of BSUIR are invited to give lectures at leading universities in Canada, the USA, Germany, Portugal, Spain, China, Poland and other countries. The training base, located in six buildings, is equipped with modern laboratory and technological equipment. As part of agreements with a number of industrial enterprises, the educational process is carried out directly on site. Thanks to the sponsorship of world-famous companies PHILIPS, INTEL, IBM and their Belarusian partners, a number of computer classes at the university are equipped with the most modern computing equipment. BSUIR carries out agreements on the implementation of new educational technologies with a number of universities in different countries: Moscow State University of Electronics and Mathematics in the field of distance learning, the University of Wupertal (Germany) in the exchange of lecturers, scientists, students, Warsaw University of Technology on the development and implementation of automated educational teaching systems academic disciplines in microelectronics. The training of highly qualified scientific personnel for the republic and other countries is carried out in postgraduate and doctoral studies in 23 specialties. Every year, more than 30 people from other universities of the republic, industry and from abroad are accepted for postgraduate studies. BSUIR has four councils for defending dissertations and awarding scientific degrees of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences. Scientific research at the university corresponds to the profile of specialist training and the main directions of scientific, technical and socio-economic development of the republic. For more than 20 years, the university has successfully operated a special design bureau with pilot production, in which the latest scientific developments are brought to laboratory mock-ups and prototypes. Thematic international conferences and exhibitions held annually at the university have become world famous and attract the attention of scientists from many countries around the world. A source of information: http://www.bsuir.unibel.byOther organization names:
The BSUIR campus includes four comfortable dormitories with 3,100 beds, located in the city center, a 30-minute walk from the university’s academic buildings. Nearby are the metro stations "Academy of Sciences", "Yakub Kolos Square", Komarovsky Market, large shopping and entertainment centers. Dormitory No. 4 is located in the Student Village (Petrovshchina metro station). In dormitories No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 there are canteens where you can eat tasty and inexpensive food. The dormitories also have gyms, tennis rooms, self-training rooms and the ability to use washing machines. Students live in rooms of 2, 3 and 4 people. The housing committees of the faculties are responsible for considering the issues of settling into the dormitory.
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