Ability to imagine to be of major importance in digital economy

6 марта 2018

This was stated by director of the Park of High Technologies Vsevolod Yanchevsky within the framework of the round table IT-education and IT-industry. Development Strategy.

Representatives of the leading Belarusian IT companies and deans of the faculties of Minsk and regional universities gathered today in the business-incubator of the Park of High Technologies to discuss the serious challenges of the national IT education. Participants note two main problems: a significant lag of curricula from rapid changes in the IT industry, as well as a shortage of university teachers with the necessary technical competencies. According to IT companies, when teaching students, insufficient attention is paid to software architecture, advanced software tools and technologies. Programs are often far from the needs of the market and have no practical focus.

In December last year, the President of Belarus outlined a strategic course for the IT-country and signed a decree On the development of the digital economy. The document gives IT companies the opportunity to provide sponsorship, grants to talented teachers and students. The priority direction for the IT industry of Belarus is now the development of its own IT-products. We can expect that the requirements for the quality of training of IT staff will be even higher in the very near future.