Complex solution from Microsoft for Belarusian education system

Microsoft has developed a complex offer for the education system, BelTA learned from Yevgeny Koren, manager for business development in public sector and education of the representative office of Microsoft Corporation in Belarus, at the press conference held on 28 November to address topical issues of the quality of European distance education.

“We have developed a complex offer for the education system and have suggested it to the Belarusian Education Ministry,” noted Yevgeny Koren.

The complex offer includes a set of education products and resources to enable easy access to technologies for all students and professors. The licenses include the Office software package and a platform for distance learning and digital document management. The offer also allows access to Microsoft’s IT Academy. “The institutions that will work with us will be able to open a branch of the IT Academy, train specialists and issue international pattern certificates,” explained Yevgeny Koren.

According to the Microsoft representative, the complex offer will be available to educational institutions at a discount. “We have been granted exclusive terms for Belarus with an additional level of discounts,” he said.

An international education conference European Quality Education is scheduled to take place in Minsk on 27-28 November. The conference has been organized by the British business school Magna Carta College Oxford and the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. Microsoft Corporation is the general partner of the event. The conference has been organized with assistance of the Belarusian Education Ministry, the Embassy of Belarus in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the UK Embassy in Belarus.