{"id":130968,"date":"2025-03-21T12:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T09:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/130968\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"education-minister-only-one-private-kindergarten-left-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/130968\/","title":{"rendered":"Education minister: only one private kindergarten left in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n Andrej Ivaniec\n <\/div>\n \n
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March 21, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Only one private kindergarten in Minsk’s suburb of Sienica has been granted authorization to operate in Belarus, Education Minister Andrej Ivaniec told the state-run SB. Belarus Segodnya<\/em> newspaper yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, about 40 children have access to private preschool education in Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of 89 percent of children aged from two to six are enrolled in pre-school educational facilities, the minister said, boasting a 100-percent coverage of pre-school training in the age groups of five- and six-year-olds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kindergarten in Sienica is one of the seven private educational institutions that managed to stay open after in 2022 the government introduced the licensing requirement for private schools in Belarus. The move was linked to Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s order to take the education system under control, causing closures of private schools. The exact numbers remains unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of them, about 50, operated in Minsk and the Minsk region, Ivaniec said earlier this year, claiming that only half of them had been offering education services before the licensing legislation came into force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All schools must follow a government-approved curriculum to guarantee the quality of education, he stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The licensing of private schools was part of a large-scale crackdown on research and education following the 2020 political crisis in Belarus. Students, teachers and researchers have often been expelled, imprisoned or forced into exile, while secondary schools started teaching military and patriotic classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, three major private Belarusian universities operating since the 1990s terminated admissions and announced closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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