Slavery Shall Be Legalized
The innovation will be attached to the project of a new Higher Education Law. In reality it means the system where every student will be concluding an agreement with a University, where the rights and obligations of the parties will be marked, including student’s obligation to work in a place where he will be directed by the state within the system of compulsory workplacement. Furthermore, Education Ministry is making a proposition to reinforce the control system of that compulsory work-placement for students who studied within the budget form; the term of it is 2 years according to current rules. But some weeks ago Mr. Lukašenka claimed that a student should work for a state not less than 5 years.
According to Mr. żuk, about 2.6 million rubles is given from a budget to educate one student. But our state never minds that that money is not its private, which His Majesty nobly grants us with, but the taxes of common citizens – students’ parents. At the press-conference A. żuk pointed out: ‘There is a document on work-placement in the country but it is still not implemented in a fixed form. The state spends finances to educate those budget form students, and they should cover it through work-placement’.
Compulsory work-placement of the Universities’ graduates contradicts with the Belarusian Constitution, where the right of free choice of work and residence for every citizen of Belarus is noted. Thus current work-placement is illegal. When entering a University we do not sign any obligations to work 2 years for the state. But in a new contract system the slavery will be legalized. The authorities suppose us to sing our own verdict on entering.