Seven new specialties are planned to be opened at Vitebsk State University named after P. Masherov by 2015

January 29, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotovets - BELTA /. Seven new specialties are planned to be opened at Vitebsk State University named after P. Masherov in accordance with the university's development concept for 2010-2015, the university's educational work department informed a BELTA correspondent. The large-scale document, developed for the first time at the university, defines the main directions for improving the educational and upbringing activities of the university, developing research work and international cooperation, as well as strengthening the material and technical base of the educational institution. The concept fills with new content the university's permanent programs "Applicant", "Textbooks", "Revival of the Village - Children of the Village", "Professional Development and Retraining of Personnel", "Education in the System of Continuous Pedagogical Education" and a number of other program documents. Thus, it is planned to open new specialties: "Linguistic Support for Intercultural Communications", "Russian Philology (Computer Support)", "Software for Information Systems", "Fine Arts. Computer Graphics", etc., as well as three new master's specialties. The university will continue to actively implement information technologies in the educational process and intends to organize distance learning for individual disciplines in the part-time form of study. It is planned to create six educational, scientific and production complexes, as well as a number of educational, scientific and consulting centers in cooperation with educational institutions of the regional center. Great attention will be paid to career guidance, including improving the level of training of rural youth for admission to the university. For this purpose, the university intends to provide assistance to rural schools in organizing the work of lyceum classes and electives. It is planned to create a consultative center for applicants from rural and district schools at the university and a number of other measures aimed at improving the quality of pre-university education. The development concept of VSU will ensure an increase in the quality of training of specialists for various spheres of modern society, the development of fundamental and applied science for the effective solution of social and economic problems, and will also contribute to the intensification of the university's impact on the socio-economic and spiritual development of the region and the country. Vitebsk State University named after P. Masherov was founded in 1910 and is one of the leading educational institutions in Belarus. In 2009, almost a thousand young specialists graduated from the university's full-time program. University staff prepared 1.8 thousand scientific papers, including almost 270 textbooks and about 640 scientific articles, received 4 patents and 8 positive decisions on invention applications. 38 scientific developments of university specialists have been implemented, including 15 in various sectors of the national economy. The titles of "professor" and "associate professor" were awarded to 7 employees, 7 scientists defended their candidate dissertations, and almost 120 candidate and 50 doctoral dissertations are being carried out at various stages. Today, more than 4.7 thousand students study at the university on a full-time basis and almost 5.5 thousand on a part-time basis. -0-