BSU rector refused to reinstate Tatsyana Shaputska in university
- 11.01.2010, 12:38
The official has ignored appeals of the EU and signatures of students in support of the spokesperson of the Young Front.
The press secretary of Young Front Tatsyana Shaputska received a rejection to her motion to be reinstated as a student of the second year of the law faculty from the BSO rector Syarhei Ablamejka.
“The Law “On Higher Education”, the BSU Statute, Internal regulations define rights and responsibilities of a student, for violation of which a student is disciplined.
Fulfilling the demands of the curriculum and the academic program, as well as the good performance and grade point average do not make a student free from performing other duties…”, the letter of the rector reads, “Salidarnasts” informs.
Tatsyana Shaputska in her turn says that “Mr Ablamejka for some reason does not say that performance is a priority thing for a student – university is primarily an educational institution”.
“Besides, the rector forgets about item 6.7 of the Internal regulations, according to which when applying disciplinary measures, graveness of the deed is to be taken into account, situation in which it had been performed, previous performance and discipline. The rector has violated this paragraph and ordered the punishment which obviously inappropriate for the violation in the form of going abroad for three days,” the spokesperson of the Young Front said.
However, as said by Shaputska, the thing that disappointed her most in the letter of Syarhei Ablamejka was his ignoring hundreds of signatures of the BSU students in support of the motion.
- What kind of relations between the administration of the university and students there could be, when the rector ignores the opinion of students? Mr Ablamejka seems not to be interested by students and educational process, but only his position,” the girl concluded.
We remind that Tatsyana Shaputska was expelled from the law department of Belarusian State University after she had taken part in the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum in Brussels on November 16-17. Despite of the addresses of European diplomats to Belarusian authorities, it was impossible to resolve the situation in favour of the student, who was accused of prosaic absence from studies. Even the promise of the chairman of the Belarusian Trade Union Federation Leanid Kozik to stage the picket in support of Shaputska hadn’t helped, though later he refused to keep to his promise.
Tatsyana Shaputska represented the Belarusian civil society at the Eastern Partnership Forum in Brussels. She met with the leadership of European countries and the EU, including Carl Bildt, the Foreign Minister of Sweden, holding EU presidency, and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy. During the forum, when reports about the threat of the activist’s expulsion appeared, Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Carl Bildt, as well as other high-ranking participants of the Forum assured participants of the event that they would follow the developments concerning Tatsyana Shaputska.