Belarus to return to 11-year education system

President Lukashenka said that Belarusian pupils would again spend 11 years at school effective from one year after. New schoolbooks will be issued in 2-3 years. "I know schooling. The transition to the 11-year secondary education system will not cause big problems. We need to revise curriculums, but we will do it rapidly. People should not shout that we have dug in the money pledged for printing new text-books and programs", Belta quotes the head of the state as saying.

Lukashenka made his comments Saturday while visiting a rural secondary school in the Brest region.

He does not share fears that the state will suffer huge expenditures associated with the transition to the 11-year schooling system. Lukashenka said the government had made a stop on time.