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.
The students’ academic freedom violation monitoring aims to receive up-to-date and real information on the situation with Belarus Higher Education Institutions adherence to fundamental students rights and their academic freedom within the framework of cooperation between Belarusian Independent Bologna Committee, Youth Union Group “StudentskaRada” and International Consortium “EuroBelarus”.
Reviews of “Recommendations for improving the legal framework of higher school in Belarus according to the requirements for Bologna club candidates”
The monitoring of academic freedoms violations is aimed at retrieving the actual information about the situation on academic freedoms in Belarusian Higher Education Institutions. Monitoring is organized by the “Center for Development of Students’ Initiatives” (www.cdsi.by) and the Committee “Salidarnasc” (www.salidarnasc.org) within the Independent Bologna Committee activity. The Monitoring is implemented by students and teachers in all regional centers of Belarus as well as the other cities, in which HEIs are present. Being adapted especially for Belarus, methodology of the international network “ScholarsatRisk” (http://scholarsatrisk.nyu.edu/) is used in the Monitoring.