Continuing Education and Professional Development Institute
The Continuing Education and Professional Development Institute is a part of the system of continuing education at the University, which largely contributes to formation of professional community of Mogilev region and regional system of training and educational services.
The Institute was founded in 1990 and operates on a self-financing basis. Education in the Continuing Education and Professional Development Institute allows students to get professional training or to improve their skills and find their place in life. A qualitatively different training and new knowledge of professionals are crucial to the formation of enterprises and organizations in Belarus in modern conditions.
The Continuing Education and Professional Development Institute offers the following majors (with assignment of second higher education qualification):
- Accounting and Control in Industry - accountant and economist;
- Law - lawyer;
- Information Systems Software - software engineer;
- Modern Foreign Language in Business Communication and Intercultural Communications (English, German) - translator/foreign language assistant;
- Workplace Safety in Mechanical Engineering and Instrumentation Engineering - workplace safety specialist;
- Workplace Safety in Power Engineering - workplace safety specialist;
- Non-Destructive Testing of Materials and Products - nondestructive testing specialist;
- Finance - financial specialist;
- Banking - banking specialist;
- Commercial Activities in Consumer Goods Market - economist;
- Business Administration - manager, economist;
- Industrial and Civil Engineering - building engineer;
The Institute also offers the professional development courses, namely:
- Foreign languages (English, German, Italian, Spanish, French);
- Computer science /PC operators/ (Windows, Word, the Excel, Ascess, Internet; Visual Vasic, network administration, programming, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, etc.);
- 1C: Accounting;
- Web-programming, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, presentations;
- Construction supervision for executives and chief engineers, foremen and supervisors in construction;
- Supervision of cargo cranes maintenance and safe operation;
- Workplace safety and labor legislation;
- Training for crisis managers;
- Training for inspection and audit specialists;
- Organization and execution of freight and passenger transportation;
- Visual-optical, ultrasonic and magnetic inspection, for radiation safety and control specialists;
- Training for tax officers;
- Economics and company finance;
- Training for specialists involved in designing, operation, repair, installation and adjustment of explosion-proof electrical equipment and installations in explosion hazardous areas;
- Training ofor welding specialists;
- Management of business communications, business management and intercultural communication, etc;
- Other areas of studies.
The Institute is a co-organizer of regular international scientific workshops "Continuing Education System in the European context: prospects, development, professionalism", where participants share their experiences with colleagues from other countries and establish direct contacts with foreign educational institutions to expand mutually beneficial cooperation.
The workshop programs envisage discussion of the most urgent problems of the higher, specialized secondary, vocational and further education, which contributes to the promotion of education and professionalism priority, creation of awareness of the diversity of directions and forms of training in the country and abroad as part of continuing education, as well as creation of a common European educational space on the basis of the Bologna process and acquisition of additional knowledge to improve the quality of training.
The Continuing Education and Professional Development Institute offers thematic workshops with educational programs for students, faculty and academic staff of Mogilev interested in experience of leading foreign universities, scientific institutions, industrial enterprises with innovative approaches to professional training, and programs providing information about the education opportunities of the country.
According to the results of the meetings, agreements on international cooperation of partners are made.
