Business visit to the Syrian Arab Republic and the Lebanese Republic

Published: Tuesday, 26 March 2019 10:48

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From 18 to 23 March 2019, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus organized a business visit to representatives of Belarusian universities in the Syrian Arab Republic and the Lebanese Republic. The purpose of the visit is to promote the export of educational services to the specified countries.

The delegation consisted of representatives of the five leading universities in the country, which train specialists in demand in the specified region of the Middle East. The delegation of the interests of the Belarusian State University of Transport was represented by Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs N.N. Kazakov.

The leadership of the economic and educational spheres of Syria and Lebanon noted that engineering specialties are the most in demand for joint training of foreign citizens, especially construction areas (architecture, road construction, transport communications and facilities), as well as specialties related to material processing technology, design and operation of loading and unloading equipment and others.

March 19, 2019 a delegation of representatives of Belarusian institutions of higher education with the direct participation of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Syrian Arab Republic Sluka Yu.O. visited the Ministry of Higher Education of Syria.

At the meeting with the Minister Dr. Bassam Ibrahim and other representatives of the Ministry’s leadership, issues were discussed and problems of interaction between the two countries in the field of higher education were identified. 

It should be noted that the Syrian system of training specialists with higher education allows you to successfully apply the integrated models "3 + 2", "4 + 1", "3 + 2 + 1", "4 + 1 + 1" with partial training of a specialist in Belarusian institutions higher education.

A similar format of the delegation’s work was implemented from March 21 to March 23 in the Republic of Lebanon (Beirut), where meetings with the Minister of Education and Higher Education Akram Shheyib were held, as well as meetings with the leadership of the University of Lebanon.

The main part of the delegation’s work was to hold the exhibition “Education in Belarus”, which was held on the basis of the University of Damascus (Damascus) and the American University of Culture and Education (Beirut).

It is important to note that the Belarusian State University of Transport has a number of areas that can be successfully implemented according to the results of the delegation’s work: training undergraduates and graduate students in the above training profiles, conducting joint research work using unique equipment, performing research on transport and construction profiles for the economy of the Arab region.