Increasing the public participation in the university's governance is the one of the key element of the higher education transformations in the Eastern Europe. Ukraine and Moldova have achieved essential progress in seeking for university autonomy and public participation in higher education sector, the implementation of the common European Higher Education Area principles in Belarus is of the far perspective.
Forcing students to work during educational process is considered a force labor. Students’ drawing into any types of work during their study term is unlawful independently of students’ and their parents’ consent because this is happening during study process and is not envisaged by the educational program.
The second application of the Ministry of Education of Belarus to accede to the EHEA is indicative of the interest of the Belarusian party, academic community, and majority of the Belarusian general public in integration of this country’s higher education system in the European Higher Education Area.
Recommendations on education policy, principles of higher education management, Bologna instruments and social safeguards in the higher school together will open for Belarus the gates into the European Higher Education Area.
On the December 9, 2014 the alternative report "BELARUSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION: READINESS TO EHEA ADMISSION" (2014) was presented by the Belarusian National Platform of EaP Civil Society Forum and Belarusian Independent Bologna Committee. The OBC experts concluded that Belarus higher education doesn’t meet the EHEA candidate selection criteria and that the "Road Map" aiming to modernize the higher education in Belarus should be developed and signed.