Education in Belarus

Each of the regions inside Belarus has oversight of the education system, and students may attend either a public (state) or a private school.

[5] Pre-school education is not compulsory in Belarus, but around 70% of children attend kindergarten (at the ages of 3 to 5) before they start school.

[7] Education in primary and secondary schools is required for children from the ages of six until fifteen and lasts for 9 years.

[7] Belarusian schools use administrative resource to drag the pupils into the state-controlled BRSM youth union.

[11][12][13][14][15] Ethnologist Uladzimir Lobač [be] claimed that he was fired after Natalya Kochanova and Ihar Marzaliuk threatened the Polack State University not to certify it.

[15] A number of students who participated in the protests or openly expressed their civil position were expelled.