ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY AND THE ROLE OF UNESCO CHAIRS IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN BELARUS

摘要

The UNESCO Chairs are responsible for the balanced combination of educational and research practices for the development of the national education system. Serving as a catalyst in the international experience of spreading processes, the UNESCO Chairs provide input for the adaptation of sustainability into the national higher education systems. The main target of the UNESCO chairs in the Republic of Belarus at present is to assist with upgrading the contents and structure of the higher education system in the context of integration into the global space of higher education, including the necessity of introducing 'newest achievements' in the field of information and communication technologies, creating conditions for developing Belarusian tradition of education, based at national and world achievements of pedagogic and social science. The development of intellectual collaboration and using the UNESCO Chairs resources will help to work out the programmes in the field of formal and informal education. Key priorities of the UNESCO Chairs in the Republic of Belarus are: 1. The acquisition of concrete results, answering national interests and taking into account globalization processes 2. The study of modern tendencies in the development of higher education 3. Coordination of activities of educational institutions of the Republic in the choice of concrete ways of reproduction and renewal of educational traditions 4. Assistance in working out methodical recommendations for the use of innovative, information and communication technologies in the instruction process 5. Develop an efficient system of information exchange among the UNESCO Chairs and the UNESCO Secretariat 6. Inviting sponsors' support, including international organizations, with the use of the UNESCO logo according to the existing rules 7. Maintaining cooperation with the organizations that enter the UNO system 8. Getting support from the Republican governing bodies by defining the trends of research The main prerequisites of the UNESCO Chairs' activities are integrating the national education system into the European Space for Higher Education.