Lukashenko signs law to amend Education Code

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed a law comprehensively amending the Education Code, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.

The document includes provisions aimed at increasing the efficiency, quality and accessibility of education, expanding state protection of students, graduates and vulnerable groups of children and youth, as well as enhancing the responsibility of participants in the educational process.

In particular, the government has been authorized to redistribute and redirect graduates from one workplace to another as part of the first job mandatory placement program and to provide them with additional guarantees, while local authorities have been authorized to arrange free transportation of students within populated areas to educational, sports, cultural and other events.

Schools located in urban-type settlements and rural settlements will be able to train drivers of mechanical vehicles and self-propelled machines.

Disabled children under 18 have received preferential rights to be admitted to sanatorium-type boarding schools.

Foreigners will be able to get a grant to prepare for admission to Belarusian educational institutions.

Foster parents will have the status of teaching staff.

School students will be required to observe a dress code.

The law also provides for other norms adjusting the education policy taking into account new trends of the educational process and the practice of applying the current code.

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