OREANDA-NEWS. March 19, 2009. During Atomexpo Belarus 2009 international specialized exhibition in Minsk on Mar 12 2009 representatives of the State Central Institute for Chief Executive Training (SCICET) and Byelorussian State University signed an agreement for cooperation in the field of nuclear education, particularly, on training nuclear personnel for Belarus and training and retraining of professors of local universities.

There are traditional ways to create own education infrastructure: a country can send its students to foreign universities or can invite well-known foreign professors to give lectures at its national higher schools. However, Belarus has a unique peculiarity: its universities enjoy high level of fundamental natural-scientific and technical education (including nuclear and elementary particle physics). In his speech during the “Training of Personnel for Nuclear Industry” roundtable the vice principle for scientific and international activities of SCICET V.Artisyuk said that the best way to adjust the existing education system of Belarus to nuclear education was to train professors of local universities under short-term professional development programs in Russia.

Presently, SCICET and the Physics Department of Byelorussian State University are drafting curricula for training courses on nuclear reaction, nuclear reactors, management and protection systems, nuclear power plants, nuclear safety and nonproliferation.

The program of the courses will be based on the best experience of SCICET’s cooperation with nuclear companies.