The center for pre-university training and vocational guidance
Training school leavers for entering higher educational establishments and providing career guidance is a key stage in the consistent system of continuing integrated multilevel education. The center for pre-university training and vocational guidance which is the university's unit, undertakes these tasks.
The center for pre-university training and vocational guidance was founded under the Rector's order №68 – A on March, 13 1992.
The center operates under the Code of Education of the Republic of Belarus №243 – 3 on January, 13 2011; the School of Pre-University Training Regulations; the Preparatory Department and Preparatory Course Regulations approved by the decree of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus №980 on July, 21 2011; BSEU center of Pre-University Training Regulations approved by the Rector on March, 27 2014.
The director of the center (in the centre) – Sergei Aleksandrovich Kuchuk, The center of Pre-University Training staff (from left to right) – Liudmila Ivanovna Khomich, Irina Petrovna Yankovsksya, Svetlana Alekseevna Makarova, Lilia Victorovna Achepovsksya
In November 2003 The Department of General Educational Disciplines was founded at the center of Pre-University Training.
The university's hands-on participation in selecting future applicants is the key prerequisite not only to providing their career guidance but also to quality training for their potential studying at higher educational establishments.
The center of Pre-University Training operates in the following directions:
∠ trains secondary school and technical college applicants on the preparatory course for passing their entrance exams with a view to entering higher educational establishments of the Republic of Belarus for full term of study in the following disciplines:
- Mathematics
- The Russian Language
- The English Language
- The History of Belarus
- Social Studies
∠ prepares technical college graduates on the preparatory course for short-term education in the next disciplines:
- Business Economics
- Basics of Management
- Accounting
Training applicants, secondary school leavers and technical college graduates is conducted on the preparatory course at evening in-person classes, by means of correspondence courses and by combining both the forms as well.
∠ trains foreign students in the preparatory department in the next disciplines:
- Russian as a foreign language
- Russian as a foreign language: professional vocabulary
- Mathematics
- Economic Theory
- The History of Belarus
- Basics of Computer Literacy
Those students who successfully pass the final exams and receive the Preparatory Department Certificate are entitled to enter the 1st or the 2nd stage of education both at BSEU and other higher educational establishments of the Republic of Belarus without taking exams.
∠ trains foreign students on the preparatory course in the following disciplines:
- The English Language
- The Russian Language
Training foreign students both in the preparatory department and on the preparatory course is conducted at in-person classes.
∠ organizes and conducts the University entrance campaign:
- centralized testing for full-time students (a full term of study)
- inner exams for part-time students (a short term of study)
∠ organizes the work of the Testing Unit whose primary task is conducting practice testing (without giving certificates) over the secondary education course based on the tests offered by EI 'The Republican Institute of Knowledge Testing' in all the disciplines.
Training on the preparatory course and in the preparatory department is conducted on a fee-paying basis.
The center's main objectives:
- rendering foreign students pedagogical and psychological assistance, adapting them to the new educational environment and to the life in a foreign country, introducing them to the history of the Republic of Belarus, its traditions and culture
- overcoming the gap between secondary school leavers' standard of achievement and the requirements set for applicants at the centralized testing
- broadening and deepening the knowledge of the most capable students who have an aptitude for economics
- target-driven formation of BSEU student body
- improving the quality of educating future university graduates
Achieving the goals set is possible due to the variety of education plans and training programs available on the preparatory course in the disciplines checked at university entrance exams and in the disciplines for which the final exams are taken on the preparatory course; forming optimal study groups in terms of the number of applicants and their standard of achievement; using modern training techniques and individualization of learning.
Focused work on identifying and developing the most capable students and training them for passing centralized tests and entering university is done by means of the special preparatory course 'Secondary school – University' which operates under contract to secondary schools. Classes are conducted both at BSEU and at secondary schools of Minsk and Minsk region.
The primary tasks of the center currently are:
- building up applicants' knowledge for entering higher educational establishments
- adapting them to university studies
- overcoming the gap between secondary school leavers' standard of achievement and the requirements set at university entrance exams
- training foreign students for passing final exams in the disciplines studied
- providing career guidance for foreign students, secondary school leavers, technical college graduates and vocational school graduates
- combining the tested and new ground-breaking forms of training applicants on the single scientific and methodological basis
The center of Pre-University Training operates in compliance with the standard education plans and training programs approved by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus. Based on these the preparatory course and the preparatory department training programs are developed.
Classes are conducted by teachers who are full time members of staff.
Our address: Minsk, Partyzanski Prospekt, 26,
university building 2, office 11
Our phone number: +375 17 209-78-11
Our website: bseu.by
Our e-mail: fdp@bseu.by
We on Instagram: bgeuminsk (Pre-University Training)
International relations dep.
e-mail : umoms@bseu.by
Tel.: (+375 17) 209-88-32,
International students office:
Tel.: (+375 17) 209-79-71