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[00:00:20] Live news, hello. Now, a brief summary of the main news of the
[00:00:24] hour. When being a teacher is the calling of a
[00:00:27] lifetime. Belarus celebrates the day.
[00:00:31] Protests against rising prices, the housing crisis, the policy of
[00:00:34] militarization, and strict measures in schools. Europe has been gripped by mass
[00:00:38] rallies. And the marathon of good deeds in Belarus. Volunteers
[00:00:42] of the large-scale project Dobro. Bell help citizens of advanced
[00:00:46] age.
[00:00:48] Today, Belarus honors those who every day help children discover the world
[00:00:52] of knowledge, believe in themselves, and choose their own path. Behind school
[00:00:55] lessons are not only formulas, rules, and dates. This is daily work,
[00:00:59] attention.
[00:01:03] The President congratulated the country's educational workers on their professional
[00:01:07] holiday. Your work is one of the most difficult and
[00:01:10] responsible, and I am sincerely grateful to everyone for whom it
[00:01:14] has become a lifelong calling. It is today, in the era of digital
[00:01:17] transformation, that your work is more valuable than ever. No
[00:01:20] algorithm can replace human participation, wise
[00:01:23] advice, heartfelt warmth, and support, which, like
[00:01:27] knowledge, are so necessary for students.
[00:01:30] children, showing them an example of careful attitude towards national traditions and
[00:01:34] values, pride in their native country and people, you are building
[00:01:38] the future of Belarus. I am sure that, thanks to your efforts, it
[00:01:41] will be prosperous and peaceful. May every lesson
[00:01:45] find a lively response from your students, their success
[00:01:48] brings joy and confirms the correctness of the chosen
[00:01:51] path, - noted the head of state.
[00:01:55] On this day, it is especially symbolic to talk about those who are just beginning their path in this
[00:01:59] noble profession. Thousands of students with a pedagogical
[00:02:02] focus are today taking their first steps in their chosen specialty,
[00:02:05] gaining knowledge, getting acquainted with their future profession, and already understanding that a
[00:02:09] teacher is an extremely important person in everyone's
[00:02:12] life, and the path to pedagogy begins right here, in the most important
[00:02:16] training ground for personnel in our country - BSPU, and often
[00:02:19] it originates in the school period or from the example of
[00:02:22] parents. The example influenced me, my mother is now
[00:02:25] working as a deputy director at a school, and
[00:02:29] before that, she worked as a teacher-organizer in the gymnasium where
[00:02:32] I studied. For the 2 years that I was in
[00:02:36] high school in the gymnasium in the engineering class, I watched
[00:02:40] how teachers work, how they
[00:02:42] teach, these methods of teaching, I really
[00:02:46] liked it, because a teacher is
[00:02:49] a person who doesn't just give something
[00:02:53] to a child, he ignites that spark in
[00:02:56] him. On the school map of Belarus, there are over
[00:03:00] 2800 institutions of general secondary education, with more than one million students
[00:03:03] sitting at desks, taught by 98,000
[00:03:07] teachers. On average, there are 11 students per teacher
[00:03:11] in the country. Belarusian education has a female
[00:03:14] face, with over 87% of teachers being women
[00:03:18] of the fair sex. The average age of a teacher is about
[00:03:22] 43 years, over 90% of teachers are proud of their university
[00:03:25] diplomas, and most also have the highest and first
[00:03:28] qualification categories. The professionalism of the Belarusian teacher
[00:03:32] is also reflected in their work experience; almost
[00:03:35] 70% have over 15 years. By the way,
[00:03:38] 6% of the total number of Belarusian teachers are young
[00:03:41] specialists. In terms of academic subjects, most teachers in
[00:03:45] Belarus teach foreign languages, over
[00:03:48] 18%. Mathematicians occupy the second
[00:03:51] position in the rating, and physical education teachers hold the bronze,
[00:03:55] while teachers of Belarusian and Russian languages occupy the fourth and fifth
[00:03:59] places.
[00:04:01] Can artificial intelligence and the introduction of other technological
[00:04:05] tools replace the teaching profession? What is the main challenge
[00:04:08] for mentorship in the next 5-10 years, and
[00:04:12] are there ever former teachers? The Deputy Minister of Education
[00:04:16] of Belarus spoke about this and more in an interview with our TV channel.
[00:04:18] Alexander Vladimirovich, the teacher has always been a source of
[00:04:22] knowledge. How has this role transformed with the active introduction of
[00:04:26] artificial intelligence and various
[00:04:29] technologies? The question is, in fact,
[00:04:32] non-trivial. It has been on everyone's lips recently.
[00:04:35] Indeed, there is
[00:04:39] a widespread belief that the role of a teacher is changing.
[00:04:42] In principle, we can say today that this is indeed
[00:04:46] happening. If someone says
[00:04:49] that a teacher was previously exclusively a
[00:04:52] transmitter of some fundamental or applied
[00:04:55] knowledge, this is also not entirely true, because natively or
[00:04:58] directly he... by his example he educated his
[00:05:02] students, showed an attitude to certain
[00:05:05] events, yes, that is, he formed a personality even
[00:05:08] earlier, today in the world of developing artificial intelligence...
[00:07:24] of the Eurasian negotiations in the Time of the First column. What did
[00:07:28] Alexander Lukashenko discuss with the Russian Prime Minister face to face?
[00:07:31] The logic of personnel decisions for the political headquarters, as well as
[00:07:35] insights from the administration of the Belarusian president, what is on the head of state's
[00:07:39] work plan until the end of the year. Don't miss it, today at
[00:08:12] he arrived, either well, why are you rushing, if
[00:08:16] France buys your cognac, well,
[00:08:19] go, or
[00:08:20] no way,
[00:08:25] personnel logic, there will be many speculations,
[00:08:29] for the political headquarters, you should criticize more than
[00:08:33] boast, the administration will now have a strong military lobby, and
[00:08:36] also the president's plans, up to VNS,
[00:08:40] we can and the president believes that this year is difficult, the main
[00:08:44] political events, and you wait, new personnel and
[00:08:47] exclusives only from us, everyone earns their
[00:08:51] piece of bread as
[00:08:53] best they can.
[00:08:59] Lithuanian residents are dissatisfied with the authorities' course. An action against massive
[00:09:03] immigration took place in the center of Vilnius, on Gediminas Avenue. The rally,
[00:09:06] organized by the National Association party, gathered about 300
[00:09:09] people.
[00:09:19] immigration quotas, tighten the deportation of foreigners with
[00:09:22] criminal records, close foreign recruitment centers
[00:09:25] for workers. Harsh crackdowns in Spanish
[00:09:29] Valencia. Thousands of people across the country are protesting against rising prices
[00:09:33] for rent, the shortage of cheap apartments, and evictions. The police
[00:09:36] respond with batons, tear gas, and rubber
[00:09:40] bullets.
[00:09:54] Rallies took place in fifty cities in Spain, including Barcelona and
[00:09:58] Madrid. Calls for protests spread
[00:10:01] after measures taken by the government in response to
[00:10:04] the housing crisis were rejected by parliament and declared
[00:10:07] invalid. After such a failure, Prime Minister Pedro
[00:10:11] Sanchez considered the possibility of holding early general
[00:10:15] elections on November 29. Residents of
[00:10:17] Germany took to the streets against the policy of militarism. In Berlin
[00:10:21] and Dresden, anti-war demonstrations took place with calls
[00:10:25] for peace and diplomacy. Palestinian activists also took part in the capital's rally.
[00:10:28] Law enforcement intervened by dispersing the
[00:10:32] crowd and making harsh arrests. Participants
[00:10:34] demanded an end to pumping money into the military-industrial complex, a halt to
[00:10:38] arms exports to conflict zones, the closure of US bases in the country,
[00:10:41] as well as the lifting of sanctions and the abandonment of plans to reintroduce
[00:10:45] compulsory military service. The French are dissatisfied
[00:10:47] with support for Kyiv. In Paris, hundreds of people took to the
[00:10:51] streets to protest government actions. The initiator was.
[00:11:25] in the streets and comes out in the name of solidarity, why the request
[00:11:28] of teenagers to repair classrooms and allow
[00:11:31] them to study, so enraged Macron, Andrei Sych sorted it out
[00:11:35] in the
[00:11:35] screenshot column.
[00:11:41] Teenagers demand good education, discipline is hammered into their
[00:11:44] heads. French police have been beating
[00:11:48] schoolchildren and students for the second week who
[00:11:51] are protesting. It all started with peaceful demonstrations blocking
[00:11:55] educational institutions, however, after an attempt to suppress
[00:11:58] the protest with rubber batons and tear gas grenades,
[00:12:02] zoomers began to respond in kind. What is happening already
[00:12:05] resembles scenes of street battles with pogroms,
[00:12:09] arsons, and violent confrontation. In essence,
[00:12:12] young people have been driven to despair, their vision of the future
[00:12:15] has been literally stolen, tomorrow has lost its certainty.
[00:12:19] Teenagers wanted to draw attention to themselves, discuss
[00:12:23] pressing problems, and find a way to solve them. Year after year,
[00:12:26] the budget for the education system is cut, there are not enough
[00:12:30] teachers in schools, classes are overcrowded and are in
[00:12:33] a deplorable state. French democracy decided that
[00:12:37] there was nothing to talk about with them and started hitting
[00:12:40] indiscriminately. The government announced budget
[00:12:43] cuts, which will again lead to cuts in spending on national
[00:12:46] education. We have already faced reductions in teaching
[00:12:49] positions. At the beginning of this academic year, trade unions conducted
[00:12:53] a study which showed
[00:12:55] that every second public school lacks teachers, and almost
[00:12:59] two-thirds of schools lack teaching staff, and we
[00:13:02] are going to further cut the budget for national education. So,
[00:13:06] this is what needs to be changed: So, no cuts to the national education budget,
[00:13:09] we need more teachers. We need more school psychologists and
[00:13:13] assistants for our students with disabilities.
[00:13:16] Young people openly speak about their fears of being left on the
[00:13:20] sidelines of the labor market in the future. And these fears are entirely
[00:13:24] justified. The French education system has been
[00:13:27] degrading rapidly in recent years. The Organization for
[00:13:31] Economic Cooperation and Development published
[00:13:35] data that caused widespread public outcry.
[00:13:38] Every 3 years, based on the results of exams for fifteen-year-old
[00:13:41] schoolchildren around the world, the PISA
[00:13:44] ranking is compiled. French students showed the worst results in
[00:13:48] the last 20 years. The data is not only discussed by
[00:13:51] parents, it is studied by investors, analysts for...
[00:13:55] how the potential of labor resources will change in different
[00:13:59] countries, a country losing its human potential
[00:14:02] inevitably declines in high-tech sectors
[00:14:05] of the economy, and what is characteristic, schoolchildren in this
[00:14:08] situation are only victims of opportunists.
[00:14:11] French politicians have stopped thinking and working for the future,
[00:14:15] many are interested in a very specific short-term
[00:14:19] task, how to be re-elected in the next elections, and
[00:14:22] if the legislation is no longer...
[00:15:40] As it turned out, the problem is much wider than the state borders
[00:15:44] of France. Mass protests of high school students have already
[00:15:47] spread to Belgium, teachers did not stay
[00:15:50] aside, they are united against the new education
[00:15:53] reform, which complicates admission to universities
[00:15:56] and leads to a decrease in the salaries of pedagogical staff.
[00:16:00] Most similar reforms throughout the European Union are dictated
[00:16:04] by cuts in budget funding.
[00:17:07] the government additional funding and expect to receive 2
[00:17:10] billion euros. Food production is also in
[00:17:14] crisis, farmers complain about rising fuel costs
[00:17:17] and the tax burden, which keeps their farms in
[00:17:21] a state of permanent survival. They also
[00:17:24] tried to remind people of themselves in their characteristic manner and
[00:17:27] dumped manure on the building of the tax service. Thus,
[00:17:31] a very natural pattern is forming: the more Paris
[00:17:34] wants greatness. The marathon
[00:17:47] "Dobro bel" united dozens of volunteer detachments of BRSM
[00:17:51] "Kind Heart" that prove their civic position not with words, but
[00:17:55] with deeds. All of October will be held under the sign of helping elderly
[00:17:59] residents. As part of the "Kindness to Seniors" campaign, activists go
[00:18:02] where support is needed most. So, BRSM
[00:18:05] volunteers, BNTU students, visited Minsk resident Konstantin
[00:18:09] Stankevich. The guys helped clean the adjacent
[00:18:12] territory, it's very
[00:18:13] pleasant, no one
[00:18:17] shirked, very successfully,
[00:18:20] very willingly everything was done, so that they
[00:18:24] could do it, parents need to show them a little, as
[00:18:27] you can see, I gave them so many instructions today, how to do it,
[00:18:31] how to take what, I have grandmothers and grandfathers, and well, it
[00:18:35] was nice, I'm helping some grandfather. they will help my
[00:18:38] grandfather, so it turns out to be such mutual assistance, I like to help
[00:18:42] people, I believe that everyone should have
[00:18:45] a kind heart. I note that the marathon of good deeds has united
[00:18:49] over 42 thousand caring young people throughout