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Organization of training and education in the military academy of the republic of belarus
The Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus was established by the President of the Republic of Belarus by the amalgamation of 2 military colleges in 1995. There are the Military Air Defense College, its history began in 1953 and the Military Combined Arms College, established in 1980.
Nowadays the Military Academy is a leading educational establishment, a methodological and scientific center in the military educational system, where officers are trained in major military specialties.
The main purpose of the Academy include:
- Officers’ Training for the Armed Forces, Internal Troops and State Frontier Committee;
- Scientific Research, preparation of scientists and teaching staff in the sphere of the national military security;
- Officer Short-time Advanced Training and Refresher Training courses, including training on new types of armaments and military equipment.
Educational activities in the Military academy include:
pre-university training;
higher education;
post-university education;
and complementary education.
Officer training is carried out at 2 stages of higher education:
First academic degree is Bachelor of Science (licentiate);
Second academic degree is Master of Science.
The training of Bachelors of Science (first academic degree) is performed for 3 levels of troops control:
1. TACTICAL CONTROL LEVEL. The category of trainees is a cadet. The period of training is 4-5 years, (depending on the specialty). Graduates are lieutenants, assigned to the service in troops on positions of platoon-company-battalion.
Having obtained general experience of units control at battalion level, the officer of the rank of “captain”, “major” or “lieutenant colonel” can proceed with further training at the second level.
2. OPERATIONAL-TACTICAL CONTROL LEVEL. The category of trainees is a “captain”, “major” or “lieutenant colonel”. The period of training is 2 years. Graduates become brigade level officers.
Having obtained general experience of brigade control, the officer in the rank of a “colonel” can proceed with further training at the third level.
3. OPERATIONAL-STRATEGIC CONTROL LEVEL. The category of trainees is a “colonel”. The period of training is 2 years. Graduates become operational-strategic level officers.
Thus, appointment to different positions and units precedes each following level transition. The process of continuous military education is carried out during the full term of being in the military service.
Masters of Science are trained at the second stage of the higher education. The training of Masters of Science is related to the training of scientists. Those officers, who served in the troops, as well as graduates from the academy (lieutenants), who showed their disposition to scientific work, are trained in the magistracy. Full-time training in the magistracy lasts for 1 year.
After attendees defend master’s thesis and receive the Master of Science degree, officers can continue their training postgraduate course, and then in the doctorate, where they can defend the first candidate’s academic degree. Some years later they can get the second academic degree – the Doctor of Science. Each period is 3 years (correspondence course is 4 years).
The Academy structure includes:
- academy administration;
- faculties and chairs;
- all-academic chairs;
- scientific and research department;
- Training support center.
Main functional departments of the academy are Faculties. There are 11 of them in the Academy:
GENERAL STAFF FACULTY. Officers in the rank of a “colonel” are trained in specialty “Public and military administration”. Period of training is 2 years.
COMMAND AND STAFF FACULTY. Officers in the rank of a “captain”, “major” or “lieutenant colonel” are trained in the following specialties: Army, Aviation, Air Defense (period of training is 2 years).
Specializations: combined arms; rocket troops and artillery; Army and Special reconnaissance; communication troops; electronic warfare support; electronic warfare; chemical troops; logistics; engineering support; technical support; moral and psychological support; internal troops.
COMBINED ARMS FACULTY. Cadets are trained in the following specialties: motorized infantry and armoured units; logistics; ideological work (period of training is 4 years);
rocket troops and artillery; exploitation of ground weapons systems, Radio Engineering Systems (period of training is 5 years).
COMMUNICATIONS AND AUTOMATED CONTROL SYSTEMS FACULTY. Cadets get knowledge and acquire skills in telecommunication systems; automated systems of information processing; troops and weapons automated control systems (period of training is 5 years).
AIR DEFENSE FACULTY. Cadets are trained in 9 specializations such as surface-to-air missile systems and radio-technical troops (period of training is 5 years).
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FACULTY. Cadets are trained for special operations forces (period of training is 5 years).
AVIATION FACULTY. Cadets are trained in the following specialties: helicopter pilots, aircraft pilots, flight navigators; specialists of combat aviation control from a ground command and control center; engineers and technicians for aircraft maintenance (period of training for pilots is 5,5 years; for engineers - 5 years).
INTERNAL TROOPS FACULTY. Cadets are trained for internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (period of training is 5 years).
ADVANCED TRAINING AND REFRESHER TRAINING FACULTY. Servicemen of different categories and ranks are trained at advanced and refresher training courses distinguished by purpose and duration.
Period of training is determined by request.
FOREIGN SERVICEMEN TRAINING FACULTY. The faculty was established in 1963. More than 4100 foreign servicemen from 42 countries have been trained in the Academy, 1200 of them since 1995.
Lecturers and professors give lectures both in separate training groups and in combined groups with Belarusian cadets.
The Military Academy is a part of a common higher education system of the Republic of Belarus. After graduation from the academy the graduates are certified. Fundamental all-academic training, humanitarian training, and military and professional training disciplines are provided by Academic curriculum of the officer’s training.
The academic programme includes both basic education as well as military subjects. They are:
Exact-Sciences:
- Higher mathematics and physics
- Mechanics
- Information-computer systems
- Automated Control Systems
- Electronics
- Radio engineering
- Radar installation and transceiver
- Electrotechnics and Power Supply Systems
Humanities:
- Russian language and speech standards
- Foreign languages
- Ideological work
Military:
- Physical training and sports
- Automotive engineering
- NBC protection and ecology
- Engineer support
Scientific research department performs the second purpose of the Military Academy, is responsible for the scientific experimentation procedure in the Academy.
The scientific research department includes 6 scientific research laboratories:
- Radio Electronic reconnaissance and electronic warfare;
- Land Forces;
- Automated Control Systems and Communication;
- Air Defense;
- Air Forces;
- Military education.
Scientific and pedagogical potential of the academy. About 700 lecturers teach in the academy, 230 of them have academic degree, including 15 professors.
Scientific and Teaching staff of the Academy involves about 700 specialists, among them 230 have scientific degree, 15 are professors.
There is a great number of armaments and military equipment models, defined by training specialties, which are placed on the Academy chairs, in the laboratories, in the parks, on the training grounds and in the airfields, and in the training support center. Training facilities of the military units and enterprises are also used.
Training facilities of the Academy include:
- 15 educational buildings in six campuses;
- 31 lecture rooms;
- more than 380 specialized classrooms and laboratories;
- libraries;
- gyms, sport grounds, stadium;
- shooting complex, shooting gallery;
- training ground, shooting range.
About 60% of training hours are spent on the officers’ and cadets’ practical training.
Simulators are actively used in the training process for the purpose of save on materials.
Accommodation and catering for the trainees are provided in accordance with specified requirements and standards.
Hereby, scientific and pedagogical potential and as well as training and material facilities of the Academy meet the requirements of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus to train and educate skillful personnel in major specialties, and actively take part in international cooperation of our republic.
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