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00:00:01The Grodno and Samarkand regions signed a roadmap
00:00:05for cooperation during the visit of the Uzbekistan delegation to the regional
00:00:08center. The document enshrined joint plans in trade,
00:00:11industry, agricultural sector, tourism, as well as
00:00:15education and humanitarian sphere. The updated agreement
00:00:18will allow the regions to launch joint projects, and
00:00:21Grodno enterprises to expand their presence in promising
00:00:25markets of Central Asia. It's very good that there
00:00:29is such a direct interest between
00:00:31regions to work, because while we get through
00:00:34the ministry
00:00:37and concerns to get on this path, here there is direct
00:00:40cooperation, the hakim
00:00:44brought his businessmen and directors, that is,
00:00:47a very representative delegation, 46 people in all
00:00:51areas, so our task now is to connect them with
00:00:54specialists in their respective fields so that they can
00:00:58exchange contacts and learn.
00:01:11Uzbekistan, the population of Uzbekistan is growing every
00:01:15year, we already have almost 40
00:01:17million people, Samarkand region,
00:01:21today has over 4.5 million inhabitants and
00:01:25an annual increase of almost 1000
00:01:28is added, so it's a big one.
00:01:45In Belarus, the university admission campaign has ended, the main enrollment has been formed,
00:01:51there will be additional admission for certain areas, a total of about 40,000 people became students,
00:01:54almost 15 thousand applicants were enrolled for paid
00:01:58education, in addition to the main admission...
00:02:09For certain categories of applicants, special admission conditions
00:02:13were applied, so almost 7,000 people passed without
00:02:16entrance exams or out of competition. This group included
00:02:20winners of Olympiads and competitions of different levels,
00:02:23also among them were graduates with honors and the best
00:02:26pupils of the national children's technopark.
00:02:30In Belarus, digital technologies are increasingly entering medicine.
00:02:34We are talking about a mobile service - doctor's call. This
00:02:37is a tablet with access to an electronic medical record, data entry on
00:02:40the spot, and online prescription. Data
00:02:43is entered directly into the tablet, complaints, examination, appointments,
00:02:47are transferred to the patient's electronic record and instantly appear in
00:02:50the medical history. The algorithm analyzes the combination
00:02:54of symptoms, age, chronic diseases, current
00:02:57therapy. And gives the doctor hints
00:03:00in a matter of seconds. According to the developers, the system helps
00:03:04reduce the number of errors when prescribing medicines.
00:03:07The electronic prescription eliminates the need for a repeat visit to
00:03:10the polyclinic, waiting in queues. Patients
00:03:14are provided with the opportunity to log in to their personal account, which
00:03:17provides not just viewing examinations
00:03:20and upcoming visits, but also prescribed medications, sick
00:03:24leaves, and diagnostic tests:
00:03:27ultrasound, CT, MRI, X-ray. The patient can familiarize themselves
00:03:31with them, download them, print them, and
00:03:34provide them for consultation at another healthcare organization.
00:03:38The application was implemented at the city polyclinics in Minsk,
00:03:41and has proven to be positive because this
00:03:44service provides a higher quality of medical
00:03:47care and prompt provision
00:03:50of information to the patient for subsequent referrals
00:03:54to other organizations. Accelerating document processing
00:03:57allows for additional calls per shift in the near
00:04:01future. Plans include implementing voice data entry so that
00:04:04the doctor can fully concentrate on
00:04:07the patient. The Belarusian team took third
00:04:11place at the third Future Games in Astana. More
00:04:14than 800 people from several dozen countries competed, including
00:04:18the most famous esports teams in the world. The best
00:04:21were determined in eight types of programs, both in combined
00:04:24virtual-physical disciplines and directly in...
00:04:28The fourth Future
00:05:00Games will take place next year, and Brazil,
00:05:03Serbia, South Africa, and Uzbekistan are contenders
00:05:06to host them. To get to the forum as participants,
00:05:09it will be necessary to pass a qualifying selection.
00:05:21Women, of course, are respected in any country, valued
00:05:24in any country, and also in Azerbaijan, in Azerbaijan
00:05:28a woman generally loves herself, she takes great
00:05:31care of herself, and a woman is always on a pedestal, at a height,
00:05:35she must always be a vivid example of beauty, if
00:05:38we look at our very, well historical...
00:05:50energy is simply what everything originated from, female energy is the most
00:05:53important thing, if you look at a temple, architecture, there
00:05:57will be a woman, she, well, she will be the main one,
00:06:00a woman, but it's - I don't know - a creation
00:06:04given by God, without a woman nowhere, so may
00:06:07God grant women health, well-being, that they be
00:06:11loved and... After a short
00:06:31summer break for a short rest, the talk show on
00:06:34the essence, in the studio Kirill Kazakov, Alen Syrova our esteemed
00:06:38experts, today in the center of our attention is the main
00:06:42summer stress for those who this year were affected,
00:06:46surprised, positively, or maybe not,
00:06:49the admissions campaign, so if you have questions, please
00:06:53join our broadcast, here at the bottom of the screen is a link,
00:06:56a QR code, go to it, write your opinions, ask questions,
00:07:00we will try to discuss them during our conversation, and in the right
00:07:04corner is a link to the Telegram channel, where we share what
00:07:08we think and how we live behind the scenes. Good
00:07:11evening, let's begin.
00:07:20Well, generally, we usually informally agree behind
00:07:23the scenes who among us will start the program, this
00:07:27time after the vacation I really wanted to start,
00:07:30but I am, strictly speaking, a person who this
00:07:34year is very interested, my son entered, he entered,
00:07:38from September 1st he is a student of the journalism faculty of the Belarusian State
00:07:41University, I went through it. Strictly speaking, the whole company, and he is a target
00:07:44student, so strictly speaking, he
00:07:48entered in such an interesting situation,
00:07:51that for the target
00:07:55enrollment there were six people per place, for the first time, probably, in
00:07:59all history, well, which took place specifically at
00:08:02the journalism faculty, it was very surprising for me, and why? because
00:08:06these are some new trends, new requirements, maybe
00:08:09even new views of our youth. On how
00:08:13the admissions campaign should now
00:08:16be structured, but at the same time we received the same
00:08:20hate as last year, as the year before last, that
00:08:24our military go because they can't
00:08:27study, they go for the last option, that is, strictly
00:08:30speaking, if someone goes into the military, then those who failed,
00:08:34for example, some general education specialty, we don't have enough
00:08:37doctors, if someone goes to Mozyr, then those who failed in Minsk,
00:08:41all this... this story, of course, surfaced primarily in
00:08:45our social networks, we don't
00:08:48want to make excuses, in fact, because we perfectly understand that the situation
00:08:52is not like that, the situation is not so
00:08:54unambiguous, and the prestige of all professions that we
00:08:58have is closely linked to the economic situation that we planned,
00:09:02well, it's clear that, for example, in the late nineties, the fashion for lawyers and
00:09:05economists was due to the fact that these were the simplest
00:09:09specialties, and even, pardon the expression, I made sure that...
00:10:55as I said, also pass a medical examination, it's expensive,
00:10:58to pass all, all,
00:11:02well, it's called, but the requirements, yes, including for
00:11:06health, they, on the one hand,
00:11:09probably do not become much easier, but at the same time we
00:11:12understand that our youth are not the same as even
00:11:1610 and 15 years ago, of course, the health requirements are not just that
00:11:20they are probably getting easier, they are probably getting tougher
00:11:24and tougher every day. That is, we must understand that a future officer is
00:11:28a person who must perform his duties in 20 years, and today's
00:11:31applicant who enters must meet the health requirements
00:11:35that are laid down for the future, that is, for 20 years
00:11:38ahead, he must calmly perform his duties and be
00:11:41healthy, but they say that the guys who
00:11:44come to enroll in military universities
00:11:48now are those for whom it is not just important
00:11:52to study, say, at a military academy, but those who...
00:12:25experienced a deficit in these flight personnel, today we
00:12:28have a very, very high competition, a large number
00:12:32of our applicants, our schoolchildren, want to enter a flight
00:12:36specialty, connect their lives with a military pilot
00:12:39and so on, and this applies not only to pilots, but also to
00:12:43ideologists, information security specialists,
00:12:46these are the areas that our guys choose
00:12:49and purposefully go into these specialties, well, we started
00:12:52today's conversation with the military, now we'll smoothly
00:12:56move on to doctors. Sergey Petrovich, well, because these
00:13:00two areas were hit the hardest during this admissions
00:13:03campaign. If farmers get hit every year, you
00:13:07are already used to those who did not get into other places coming to you,
00:13:11then for doctors this is the first time.
00:13:14What do you say from your perspective? I know
00:13:18that in various conversations,
00:13:21yes, about the evaluation of this admissions campaign, even
00:13:25before its results became known, but at the moment when it started to be actively
00:13:28hyped in social networks, many referred to the fact
00:13:31that even medical
00:13:33teachers say that well, target students, well, these
00:13:37will just be, well, low-quality students,
00:13:41when it turned out that the passing scores for target
00:13:44students were so high, and there was simply some incredible
00:13:47competition, hmm, probably some of these people can take back
00:13:51their words, but again, everything will be shown by their studies, these people will not
00:13:55take it back, well, I would like to believe that there are no
00:13:58such people in the ranks, but to what end? My question
00:14:02is this, when you went for an increase or for
00:14:06this change in the format of education
00:14:08and admission, were you ready for this
00:14:11admissions campaign to go this way and for its results
00:14:15to be like this, or did you expect something
00:14:18else? Well, we have been ready for several years
00:14:22for this admissions campaign, just like last year. For us,
00:14:26this year was not a big special feature, to be honest,
00:14:29the special feature was that there were more applications for
00:14:33targeted training, if in previous years
00:14:36the enrollment was around 1.2-1.3 people per
00:14:39place, then this year it's almost two people per place,
00:14:43these are quite good figures, because the guys who applied
00:14:47for targeted training, a total of 781
00:14:50students were admitted to the university,
00:14:52currently enrolled in targeted training. Almost
00:14:561,400 applications were submitted, all the guys who
00:15:00applied were of quite high
00:15:03preparation, I calculated that about
00:15:0575% of the guys who entered our
00:15:09university had scores of 180 points based
00:15:12on two criteria: their certificate and
00:15:15their specialized biology and chemistry exam, almost straight-A students,
00:15:19that is, an average of nine on the certificate,
00:15:22and a nine on the exams, excuse me, did you
00:15:37students became target students, a little less than 781, but this
00:15:41is statistically, let's say, the same, of course, we
00:15:44expected strong students to come, because over
00:15:47the past six months since the New Year, we held open
00:15:51days, prepared students, explained,
00:15:53motivated, our teachers, our students, on
00:15:57the principle of peer-to-peer learning, traveled to
00:16:00regions, to schools, to gymnasiums, and extensively explained
00:16:04the peculiarities of medical education, conducted
00:16:07an online course for preparation for targeted training,
00:16:11and it is gratifying to note that this targeted
00:16:14training course was attended by over 1,400 students, meaning
00:16:18we already approximately understood how many of these targeted
00:16:21students would come to us and what their level
00:16:25of preparation would be, but their level of preparation has significantly increased
00:16:29compared to previous years, 2023, when we started,
00:16:32the average score increased by about 30-40%
00:16:35compared to 2023. This year,
00:17:52well,
00:17:53probably,
00:17:56the state gave us unprecedented conditions, increasing the number of students studying at our university
00:17:58by 255 places for budget-funded education. Of course,
00:18:02we are interested in students being assigned to jobs after graduating
00:18:05from the university, and all of our students are assigned,
00:18:09both paid students and those who study on
00:18:13a budget or targeted training basis,
00:18:16but here there are more profound moments, what we
00:18:19discuss with parents, with applicants at the open
00:18:23day or when visiting our university, as a student of a medical university
00:18:27for a week or a day, is that over these at least 5
00:18:30years there is a further trajectory of continuous medical education,
00:18:34although a doctor, a medic of any specialty, studies at...
00:19:37with these target students, it also revealed another point, that just like before,
00:19:41you know, on the CT, people tried to play guessing games and talked about
00:19:44how if you put B for 20 options, you would get
00:19:4850 points, it was easy not to prepare, they tried to
00:19:51guess where they needed to submit
00:19:54documents to get in 100%, well, again, relying on the
00:19:58passing scores of previous years, we know that there were
00:20:02cases related precisely to the field of medicine,
00:20:05guys were very afraid that they would not pass
00:20:09the budget form of education and simply did not pass the CT, but went for targeted training,
00:20:13well, as if the scores were lower there, everything would be fine. As a result, without the CT,
00:20:17they did not
00:20:20achieve the goal they wanted
00:20:23by that path, to study, for example, at a medical university. Dmitry Sergeevich, my question
00:20:27to you: is it true or not that
00:20:30our, our children and
00:20:33their parents relaxed a bit and neglected the CT?
00:20:38Well, in
00:20:41your opinion, we remember that
00:20:45Nariks, just last year, there were pretty
00:20:48significant accusations that it was calculated incorrectly.
00:21:20Most likely, I will say, they even
00:21:24grew, and the quality of preparation grew,
00:21:28if there will even be a question about the Russian language, about
00:21:30the number of hundred-point scorers, which there have never been, yes, then
00:21:34this is actually the figure that justified
00:21:37itself, and we are talking about the fact that children study, or maybe
00:21:40the tests and exams became easier, no, we
00:21:44are talking about the fact that they did not, they did not, I will tell you as a parent,
00:21:48the tests absolutely did not become easier.
00:22:20Yes, but it is still in the school curriculum. We had such
00:22:23an interesting question, a question about candies, yes, such a problem was very
00:22:27popular in trends, in social networks. The problem about candies, it
00:22:30is unsolvable, he says, where did the problem come from, it was solved
00:22:34in just 3 minutes, we showed a school textbook and
00:22:38this program, and we say, guys, this is a school
00:22:41textbook problem from
00:22:43the sixth grade math textbook,
00:22:47and look, in fact, to say, well, I will say that this
00:22:50year, as it has always been, any admission
00:22:54campaign, especially the centralized exam, is a coordinated
00:22:57work of all government bodies, starting from the Ministry
00:23:01of Education, ending with educational institutions, and so it is,
00:23:04so how the guys pass the exam, so this whole vertical of it is
00:23:08knowledge plus luck, it has always been
00:23:10like that,
00:23:13well, well, let's say, you always need luck, but without knowledge
00:23:17there will be no luck,
00:23:20well, strictly speaking, yes, it depends on what ticket you pull out, Vyacheslav Viktorovich,
00:23:23look, we are talking about the fact that, conditionally speaking,
00:23:26the state calculates how many doctors are needed, how many
00:23:30teachers are needed, I have the impression
00:23:34that, well, parents, ordinary people who
00:23:36plan, for example, to give their
00:23:40child a profession, they don't understand
00:23:42that times are changing, and this whole system, how many
00:23:46we need of whom, depends, strictly speaking, also on time. Because
00:23:50it's clear that, well, 10 years ago, maybe we needed
00:23:53fewer teachers, because the demographic curve was structured
00:23:57differently, now more doctors are needed, there
00:24:01may be a little more engineers, this
00:24:04year's story, when suddenly it turned out that
00:24:07programmers are a profession that is no
00:24:11longer interesting to anyone,
00:24:1410 years ago we said that Minsk is a city of programmers, and it's cool and so
00:24:17on, suddenly it turns out that programmers are so.
00:24:20not so cool, and BSUIR experienced this itself,
00:24:24this story, when we almost manually
00:24:27plan the
00:24:30order, does it even have a place to be, well, I will say
00:24:34that in this order the interests of direct manufacturers,
00:24:38various spheres of the economy, life, of our state are taken into account, that is, it
00:24:41is not just someone came up with it, this figure, it is analyzed, and
00:24:45economists, yes, planners clearly analyze
00:24:48these things, we ourselves see and know well
00:24:52those specialties for which we have certain gaps
00:24:55that need to be filled, whether it's doctors, whether it's farmers,
00:24:59whether it's teachers, because I will say that as for teachers, they
00:25:02are always needed, highly qualified, loving
00:25:06children, truly devoted to their profession, this profession will always be needed if we think
00:25:10about the future, well, I say this as a teacher, and economists and lawyers are also important, every
00:25:13profession is important, but I will remind you that a teacher is always at
00:25:17the beginning of the life path of any of our citizens, and what
00:25:20inclinations, what values will be instilled in a young person, this
00:25:24depends on the teacher, then he is guided by his aspirations, qualities,
00:25:28therefore, what we see today in our education system, this
00:25:31completed admissions campaign, for the most part, let's say, completed, personally pleases
00:25:35me, from my point of view, this is the result of a purposeful state policy
00:25:38that is being implemented, the orientation of personnel
00:25:42customers, educational institutions, to train those specialists who
00:25:46are needed today in our country. I remember the wonderful situation when...
00:26:32and the state apparatus, ministries, departments, and the universities themselves, what
00:26:36respected Sergei Petrovichko spoke about, yes, information is purposefully
00:26:39conveyed to potential applicants, future
00:26:43students, what kind of university it is, what you can get here, we
00:26:47at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Belarus, at one time also went the same
00:26:50way, peer-to-peer, our students went to
00:26:54places, held open information days, and we see the result
00:26:58today, this indicates that our...
00:27:01with teachers, many say that
00:28:02a young person who
00:28:06comes to school, they are charged, they want
00:28:09to work with children, but often after studying
00:28:12at university, they don't understand
00:28:16what this work with children really
00:28:19is, that is, they face such
00:28:22difficulties that, well, even during practice, you just won't
00:28:26see them, because older colleagues shield and protect
00:28:30you, so these guys just get their
00:28:34placement and leave.
00:28:36Perhaps a person who consciously chose
00:28:39this profession, who studied it not
00:28:43only at university, well, roughly speaking, was molded
00:28:47into this pattern for many
00:28:50years in school, during their formation, perhaps, I don't know
00:28:54for sure, they will cope with these
00:28:56difficulties more easily and will come to
00:29:00the university a little differently. What do you say?
00:29:32competitions for pedagogical specialties at our university are growing year
00:29:36by year, our passing scores are increasing, this
00:29:40year a number of specialties, the competition
00:29:43reached a third of people per place,
00:29:46indeed the quality of
00:29:49applicants increases every
00:29:52year, but in addition to quality, it is gratifying
00:29:55that motivation is growing,
00:29:58motivation both for applicants and for parents who come
00:30:02with them. After all, let's be frank,
00:30:05the most expensive thing in a family
00:30:08is a child, and we all want a good
00:30:11teacher for our child, who, and this
00:30:14is not now, I am not talking about a person
00:30:18who is a teacher with great experience, who has worked for
00:30:21many years, believe me, a young person who
00:30:25may not have so much experience, but who has desire, who
00:30:28has enthusiasm and who has a mentor, believe me,
00:31:02after completing their mandatory work period, people remain in their first jobs,
00:31:06this is due to the fact that we try to send children to work in the
00:31:10region they came from, when they already have
00:31:13the support of their parents and neighbors,
00:31:17they usually work well and for a long time, and you say that your
00:31:20admission scores are increasing, well, let's give an example,
00:31:24well, the least popular specialty was
00:31:28and became, well, let's put it this way, at our university
00:31:30we cultivate
00:31:33the specialty of engineering and pedagogical education, these are masters
00:31:37of industrial training, who work,
00:31:41no, you see, how we understand
00:31:44this, no? Again, vocational training is a bit different,
00:31:47this is a teacher, uh-huh, and engineering and pedagogical education is
00:31:51a specialty, teachers for
00:31:55secondary vocational education institutions, for
00:31:58colleges, and, for example, this
00:32:02year, last year we only enrolled one specialty
00:32:06of engineering and pedagogical education, a master of industrial training in the field
00:32:08of construction. If we are talking about this year,
00:32:12then this year we have already announced two specialties and
00:32:31I remember, indeed, a time, and I know real-life cases,
00:32:34when 10-15 years ago, a person who had
00:32:38a C in physics would enroll to become a physics teacher,
00:32:42well, that happened, but...
00:32:45is it still like that now? No,
00:32:48it's definitely not like that now, our
00:32:51specialties in physics and mathematics
00:32:53and engineering and pedagogical profiles all have
00:32:57competition, and the scores, how can I say,
00:33:00they are growing, of course, they won't be 380-390,
00:33:04but around 250-280, we
00:33:07have these scores, and these teachers, as a rule, well, here
00:33:10it already depends on the skill of our university, we bring them to
00:33:14the required level.
00:34:15in our country is one of the fundamental industries, that we
00:34:18earn money, we, in fact, in conditions of global hunger,
00:34:22which we talk about here periodically,
00:34:26do everything to, in fact, feed ourselves and earn money from it,
00:34:29and the state constantly supports this sphere, that is, the president
00:34:32always works, so to speak, in the field, raises questions, still,
00:34:35as if
00:34:38The work of a person
00:34:41who received higher education in this field, it's like...
00:36:15this means they are very important. This is
00:36:17the technology of producing plant and animal
00:36:21products, formerly called agronomy. If not for these, I will tell
00:36:24you that this year , no matter what,
00:36:28it was about 1.4 people per place for this specialty, and we
00:36:32were not recruiting 20 people, for example, for agronomy, we recruited
00:36:36160. Plus 1.4 per place - what
00:36:39a growth, how many people wanted it, but they
00:36:43would take everyone indiscriminately. No, well, how can you take everyone indiscriminately if it's 1.4
00:36:46people per place? Yes, the scores, the scores are 150 points,
00:36:50but don't forget that Russian language is used for these specialties, so
00:36:53that is, for three, well, that is, a certificate, two exams, in principle, this is...
00:36:57average scores that people got, received,
00:37:01so in principle, this is very important. And target enrollment, no matter
00:37:05what, this year too, a lot of work has been done with
00:37:08personnel customers. For target enrollment, we recruited 331
00:37:12people, which is a very good figure. This
00:37:15is what we are talking about, in total, we
00:37:18recruited 830 people, this is only for full-time
00:37:21education, because we will be recruiting for part-time in
00:37:25November. Well, this is a profession that, strictly speaking,
00:37:28allows people to study part-time, they are constantly in practice,
00:37:32they mostly work in production, because otherwise it doesn't work out.
00:37:46No matter what university, what institute we are talking about, what
00:37:50field, what profession, we still come across those clichés
00:37:54and those labels that are somehow hung up, where it's prestigious to study.
00:38:27you pull now, when
00:38:30the format of studying has changed, when
00:38:33again, we have many students who study on a budget,
00:38:37many students who entered target enrollment, respectively, the state,
00:38:40again, has already calculated that a certain number of specialists
00:38:44will join the ranks of our
00:38:48respected doctors in
00:38:506 years. It seems that there is an opinion that
00:38:53the ceremony will still be there, which means
00:38:57everyone will finish 100%, because the state
00:39:00cannot afford to lose these personnel, and
00:39:04this means, those who have already discussed the passing scores
00:39:08have come to terms with the fact that the number has increased, yes, this means, now
00:39:11another topic is being inflated, that the quality of graduates will still
00:39:15be lower than in previous years, because the situation is such, this is from history, they were put in
00:39:19a queue for a diploma, yes, yes, yes, in fact,
00:39:22will your policy regarding students
00:39:25change? I understand you'll say no.
00:39:27Well, I want to say that we always have, as you said, a rather strict
00:39:31selection at the stage of admission to our university, and
00:39:35of course, at the university, I myself finished my
00:39:37Alma Mater exactly 30 years ago. Of course,
00:39:41difficult studies
00:39:43in departments, both theoretical and clinical. Well, at
00:39:47the university, there are no random people. There are students
00:39:51who, during the first year, see that they are not alone. Yes, we
00:39:54annually expel about 10-15 students...
00:39:57There are also target students, budget students, and paying
00:40:01students who are expelled, but we always give such students a chance
00:40:05due to some psychological, psychophysiological characteristics. If he doesn't
00:40:09succeed, if he still doesn't see himself in this
00:40:12university, there is always an opportunity to
00:40:15re-enroll after a year or pass
00:40:19exams or re-enroll in the first or
00:40:22second year. This opportunity exists. Well, and there are
00:40:25students who just don't make it.
00:40:57medical universities, and from military universities, are students expelled for
00:41:00poor academic performance? Anastasia, of course, of course, Alena,
00:41:04excuse me, of course, those students who are not able to continue
00:41:08their studies, that is, to come to special disciplines in the first two
00:41:11years, as a rule, are expelled. In the third and fourth years, studies
00:41:15are conducted in special disciplines, but expulsion there is already
00:41:18unlikely, these are already the most motivated students
00:41:21who are ready to pursue this profession, ready to
00:41:25enter it, ready to acquire that knowledge.
00:41:34Well, we started talking a bit about your university in the first part of the program, these trendy tags now about
00:41:38artificial intelligence taking over jobs. programmers, well, for example, I've heard that
00:41:41if, strictly speaking, you pay artificial
00:41:44intelligence as much as a programmer, then in the grand scheme of things, it will do the same
00:41:48thing, it's clear that talk has already started about
00:41:52what BSUIR would be then, because strictly speaking, artificial
00:41:55intelligence replaces this profession. How much did you feel this story
00:41:59in this admissions campaign, or
00:42:02not, and you figuratively speaking, as we started
00:42:06to find out which professions might disappear with the help of artificial intelligence, journalists also tell us.
00:42:40In fact, the most important thing is that
00:42:43a specialist understands another area, for example, programming in
00:42:47agriculture, IT is now
00:42:50making great strides there, in this direction, for example,
00:42:53if a person understands agriculture, plus
00:42:57he knows how to program, plus he knows how to use artificial intelligence, yes,
00:43:01such a specialist will be in demand, it's an interdisciplinary profession that appears, yes, that
00:43:04is, practically into every university your
00:43:08specialty enters, in order to...
00:43:12Yes, of course, collaboration. I myself, to be honest, studied medical electronics,
00:43:15I myself studied at the medical university
00:43:18for a year, that was 20 years ago. Now
00:43:22our specialists, who on the one hand study anatomy and
00:43:25physiology, and on the other hand study electronics and
00:43:28programming, they are in demand, they find that it's still
00:43:32impossible, even in agriculture, to completely
00:43:36replace a person. We say that robots can
00:43:40do it, but still, a person controls this process. If he thoughtlessly
00:43:44presses buttons, then we will get the results that happened
00:43:472 years ago in the Vitebsk region, remember, all those piglets
00:43:51burned down. The question is, again,
00:43:55do you have such options
00:43:58for interdisciplinary training so that people
00:44:01who can, not just do some conventionally primitive work,
00:44:05but those who can also develop
00:44:08the farms they will join, come to agriculture?
00:44:12Well, let me just add here, remember Dolly the sheep, which was supposedly cloned?
00:44:15This is agriculture, agriculture, something like that, for example.
00:44:19Well, I want to say, we are already a little
00:44:23closer to agriculture -
00:44:27this is precision farming technologies. We have been implementing
00:44:30them for several years, collaborating with BSUIR, with specialists,
00:44:34we work, we have the Gorki Technopark,
00:44:37yes, where we are developing.
00:45:40these are people who received
00:45:43education and learned to do something, let's say, manually. Then
00:45:46technologies came, these technologies became a help, and
00:45:50conditionally, people who can do both,
00:45:53and differently, now,
00:45:56when we are chasing automation of
00:45:59production, there is something else. Well, we
00:46:03keep in mind the option that a person who comes to work, again, in
00:46:07the field of precision farming, will...
00:47:22or will be able to work without using
00:47:25various, so to speak, auxiliary things, yes, but in
00:47:28the modern world, he must at the same time, be able
00:47:31to use the same artificial intelligence, some
00:47:34new technologies, again, in the same precision farming
00:47:38and work. Sergey
00:47:41Nikolaevich, well, here we are talking about technologies, about zoomers, in
00:47:44general,
00:47:46this admission campaign for zoomers, what
00:47:50was it like? What interested zoomers? Well,
00:48:24it should be noted that the admission campaign that we
00:48:28have already completed this year at our universities, showed
00:48:31precisely the interest of our applicants in all
00:48:35specialties and areas for which admission was announced this
00:48:39year. Can I ask you to speak a little louder? Every
00:48:42fourth place in our universities is an engineering place,
00:48:46and we filled these places in full, and this indicates that
00:48:49young people who today choose not so much the university
00:48:53as their future workplace, understand and are pragmatic
00:48:56about their choice, not just to enter, so to speak, a
00:48:59popular well-known university, but where will I work tomorrow? Today,
00:49:03such career guidance work
00:49:06is already beginning today with prospective students next year,
00:49:10that is, these are open days, these are job fairs, fairs
00:49:13of targeted training and a number of other, perhaps inconspicuous events
00:49:17that are held, that is, they annually allow young people to make a conscious
00:49:21choice.
00:49:30we see, yes, that the number of technical specialists who are entering universities today is growing, and the competition for these specialties is growing, and colleagues rightly noted here
00:49:33that today IT technologies, artificial intelligence
00:49:37are not instead of these specialists, but together with them, that
00:49:40is, we provide good fundamental training
00:49:44for specialists, so that indeed, when this artificial intelligence is turned off, we
00:49:47can solve the tasks that the industrial sector
00:49:50of the country faces today. Our universities and colleges are focused on
00:49:54training personnel with this in mind. Listen,
00:49:58it's interesting, all these efforts that we
00:50:01made over a certain number of
00:50:04years, if the attitude towards targeted enrollment has changed,
00:50:07then it seems that the attitude towards
00:50:10secondary specialized education has started to change,
00:50:14that is, this boom, this psychological moment about
00:50:18the need for higher education for everyone, and those people who
00:50:21came for education, along with their parents, very sincerely
00:50:25asked why we need philosophy in the first year, that is, people who
00:50:28were going to get higher education, and
00:50:31it seems that now, it seems that now
00:50:35we have finally understood what higher education
00:50:39is, who really needs it,
00:50:42who can go to study there,
00:50:46after the ninth grade, to the same
00:50:49colleges or technical schools, and this will not
00:50:52be considered something in the category of "this one is smart
00:50:56and successful, and this one is so-so," no, not at all,
00:51:00in no case. That is, students who choose today
00:51:03the trajectory of entering colleges after nine grades
00:51:07or after eleven grades - this is also
00:51:09the most, so to speak, motivated youth
00:51:12who also consciously choose their profession. It should
00:51:16be noted that they also have the opportunity to get
00:51:19higher education, an additional trajectory,
00:53:35field, he chose the trajectory of secondary education first, special
00:53:38there, finished college, then he has this desire, aspiration to develop and
00:53:42move in the scientific field, it will find embodiment in higher education, no one forbids
00:53:46graduates this, it is absolutely correct, having received a practical
00:53:49specialty, he further develops in a theoretical sense and then as
00:53:52a result can very well come to a scientific organization, already having
00:53:56practical experience, from my point of view, this will even be a very good scientist
00:54:00who has gone through not only theoretical school with all the
00:54:03practical components that we have.
00:54:35interact, do something together, then they go, choose, enter
00:54:38some university, secondary specialized, but they already
00:54:41have an idea about the scientific field, they already have, since he came here to us,
00:54:45it means, yes, he was interested, it means, they told him on Science Day what
00:54:49this or that scientific field is, he came, he has aspirations, and I
00:54:52am convinced that our education system will not extinguish this aspiration,
00:54:56therefore I do not disagree with the idea that if fewer people
00:55:00enroll in higher education institutions from the beginning, yes,
00:55:03then educational institutions, we will get, it means, a decrease
00:55:06in the number of people in the scientific field, no, I will say this, that there are always
00:55:10people in society who strive for the scientific field, and
00:55:14what path they take, it means, that is good in terms of speed,
00:55:18for example, if he entered a higher education institution, went, but also a more
00:55:21long, but practically oriented path, it is also useful for science.
00:55:25Sergey Nikolaevich, I often listen to Viktorovich
00:55:28now, and I think, from the point of view of your
00:55:31sociology, which you summarize based on the results of the admissions campaign?
00:55:35Can we, for example, say that artificial intelligence really kills
00:55:38some professions? We see that it's
00:55:41not interesting to apply here, there are fewer applicants here.
00:55:45This is not the problem that it's not fashionable, but the problem is
00:55:49that we clearly understand that this post-industrial
00:55:52society of artificial intelligence is already coming
00:55:55here. Well, I will note that the issues
00:55:58of studying artificial intelligence technologies are now actively
00:56:01being implemented in all specialties in our universities.
00:57:05if some specialty, conditionally, is outdated or dying, then we certainly
00:57:08adjust admission to this specialty. This also includes
00:57:11our restriction on young people entering
00:57:15non-core specialties in universities, which. this kind of work has been carried out
00:57:18in recent years, that is, when a university is tailored to
00:57:22its own profile. If it trains chemists, technologists for the chemical
00:57:26industry, then this is its main profile, and the specialists
00:57:29it graduates, it must train precisely for this industry. Yes, there will
00:57:33probably be economists, maybe managers, marketers, but they must be specifically
00:57:36for these enterprises, because in these
00:57:40universities, strong fundamental engineering training is provided,
00:57:43so that a hypothetical economist, coming to an enterprise, knows not
00:57:47only all economic issues, but also technology, and the issues
00:57:51of developing this production. Therefore, this is a process that does
00:57:54not stop, not for a day, not for a minute, and I emphasize once again, today
00:57:58we are completing, we have completed the admission campaign to universities, and we are already
00:58:01working on the conditional admission campaign for next year,
00:58:04evaluating the prospects that, the new directions that
00:58:08will be necessary in 4-5 years to work in some
00:58:12areas, like medicine, yes, they decided and reformed, yes,
00:58:15the admission formats and... Well, medical universities,
00:58:29they traditionally admit most applicants using
00:58:33state budget funds and targeted admission. If we compare with
00:58:36previous periods, it has not grown, that is, it has even
00:58:40decreased somewhat for some specialties. So, young people had
00:58:43an additional opportunity to apply on general grounds. This
00:58:47year even more than last year, in other areas, in other areas, that is,
00:58:51the trend is the same, that is, everything depends on the customer. That is, if today more
00:58:55engineers are needed for our leading enterprises, then
00:58:58of course we see that the number of targeted students for these specialties
00:59:01is growing. After all, a targeted student is not just a young specialist who
00:59:05will arrive at the enterprise in four or five years. A targeted student
00:59:08is a student with whom we start working already
00:59:12after admission, practical training at their enterprise,
00:59:15course and diploma projects for their enterprise, that is, everything is aimed at
00:59:19shortening the adaptation period of a young person who will then be assigned
00:59:23to an enterprise. Here we also actively work with students. We
00:59:27currently have an initiative called "Learn and Work." Over 140
00:59:31professions at our leading enterprises are now officially
00:59:34open for senior students to officially get employed, that is,
00:59:37not in a taxi, although, well, we won't talk about that here, or
00:59:41as a pizza delivery driver, but specifically at
00:59:44an enterprise as an engineer. By the way, can BSUIR students
00:59:48practice a similar story and work and study?
00:59:51This is, well, let's say, the most important condition is good
00:59:55academic performance, that is, if a student is not
00:59:58performing well, no one will allow him to work, let him study,
01:00:01finish his studies. If he performs well, of course, many of our
01:00:04students also work, well, by moonlighting in their
01:00:08specialty, because when I was a student, I also
01:00:12worked part-time. This practical experience, combined with the theory
01:00:15we study, gives...
01:00:47At the same time, our life so strongly requires
01:00:50the introduction of IT technologies that the number of
01:00:54enterprises that hire our students is growing, so we don't feel,
01:00:57for example, that artificial intelligence will make your students
01:01:01unwanted. But to conclude the program, just a couple
01:01:04of words. Every time we talk here, for example, about
01:01:08high technologies, or discuss again the development
01:01:11of the country's energy complex, I remember when the decision
01:01:14was made that we would have a third power unit. A person stood here and
01:01:18said: guys, if you want to live
01:01:22well in 5 years and choose the most
01:01:25promising specialty, choose what will be
01:01:28related to the development of nuclear energy, because our country, in
01:01:32general, is following this path, and I think that in order
01:01:36to make the right choice, of course, it's important to listen to
01:01:39your feelings, yes, your abilities, to mom and
01:01:43dad, of course, not to be detached
01:01:46from reality, but also... in general, to be at least a little interested
01:01:50in how the country lives, and what directions
01:01:53the country is developing, what it pays attention to. That
01:01:57is where our perspective will be.
01:02:172006, Europe +42 in Madrid, +40 in
01:02:21Paris, +38 in Berlin. These are not news from the desert, this is
01:02:24the weather forecast for the capitals of the richest continent
01:02:27on the planet. When the earth melts. Underfoot, first of all, labor productivity
01:02:31falls. At temperatures above 32°,
01:02:35the total volume of production decreases so much that one day of abnormal
01:02:38heat is comparable to half a day of a national strike. The European
01:02:42Central Bank calculated: each degree above the norm in the summer period
01:02:46costs the eurozone economy almost half a percent of GDP. Green
01:02:50energy dealt a powerful blow to the economy. This summer, a hot
01:02:53calm came to the EU, almost complete calm. And
01:02:57European wind turbines stood still, as did enterprises that... took a huge
01:03:00amount of electricity from them. It's not just about economics, at extreme
01:03:04temperatures hundreds of thousands of people are at risk. Each heatwave
01:03:08brings death, especially among the elderly, children, and
01:03:11people with chronic diseases. Looking at how traffic lights are melting, even
01:03:15railway tracks, how people fight in stores for air conditioners, how logistics
01:03:17is collapsing. The media increasingly write that European
01:03:21architecture cannot withstand the heat. We delve into
01:03:24the intricate global processes in the project
01:03:27"Clear Politics" on Belarus
01:03:3024 channel.
01:03:36The process of reshaping the world order has begun. This process is
01:03:40not one day or one year. The task of the
01:03:42commander-in-chief, Alexander Lukashenko, is to lead
01:03:46his country into this process as strong as possible, to stand firm and
01:03:49bring it into the new geopolitical structure of the planet,
01:03:52at least not weaker. And it has long been the main goal of Belarus and its
01:03:56president to prevent war in their country. And
01:04:00Alexander Grigoryevich is doing
01:04:03an amazing job with this task. Alexander Lukashenko, as a leader
01:04:05in economics, is engaged in creating strategic
01:04:09opportunities, and the rest of the vertical of power, the government, embassies,
01:04:12governors, and, of course, local authorities, must take advantage
01:04:16of them. It is a strong economy, not only today, but also
01:04:19tomorrow, that is the best protection against wars and other cataclysms. There is
01:04:23a famous phrase that very accurately characterizes Alexander
01:04:26Grigoryevich's basic approach to solving all
01:04:30issues: demand the impossible, and you will get the maximum.
01:04:33Igor Turay's author's project,
01:04:36"Propaganda." Watch it on Belarus 24 channel.