Improvement of the system of education of highly qualified scientific personnel in the Republic of Belarus

Authors

  • Andrey A. Kosovskiy State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus, 1 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus
  • Alexey G. Klimkov Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support of Scientific and Technical Sphere, 7 Pieramožcaŭ Avenue, Minsk 220004, Belarus; CJSC «String Technologies», 33 Čyhunačnaja Street, Minsk 220089, Belarus

Keywords:

postgraduate studies, doctoral studies, the system of postgraduate education, highly qualified scientific personnel, public administration, incentives, personnel potential

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the effectiveness of measures taken by the state administration bodies of the Republic of Belarus in 2016 –2020 aimed at developing the system of education highly qualified scientific personnel. It is established that their implementation has allowed to increase the number of students and admission to doctoral studies by more than 1.5 times in 5 years, to preserve the country’s scientific personnel potential as a whole. The analysis of the dynamics of the highly qualified scientific personnel education over the past 5 years has been carried out with the identification of trends, the factors that negatively affect the development of the highly qualified scientific personnel education system have been identified. Taking into account these factors, additional incentives are presented to attract the most promising scientific personnel to the Belarusian science.

Author Biographies

  • Andrey A. Kosovskiy, State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus, 1 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

    PhD (economics), docent; first vice-chairman

  • Alexey G. Klimkov, Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support of Scientific and Technical Sphere, 7 Pieramožcaŭ Avenue, Minsk 220004, Belarus; CJSC «String Technologies», 33 Čyhunačnaja Street, Minsk 220089, Belarus

    PhD (economics); leading researcher at the department of scientific and methodological support for forecasting the needs of highly qualified researchers, Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support of Scientific and Technical Sphere; and consultant for research activities, CJSC «String Technologies»

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2021-11-29

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No. 2 (2021): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Economics

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H. Public Economics

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Kosovskiy, A.A. and Klimkov, A.G. 2021. Improvement of the system of education of highly qualified scientific personnel in the Republic of Belarus. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Economics. 2 (Nov. 2021), 98–105.