Republican Scientific and Methodological Conference "Actual issues of scientific, methodological and educational work: practical-oriented and fundamental training at the first and second steps of higher education" was held at Francisk Skorina Gomel State University on March 15 – 16.

On the first day of the conference, an exhibition of educational and methodological literature and materials on ideological and educational work was prepared, prepared by the Department of Youth Initiatives and Student Self-Government and the University Library. Valuable works for exhibiting, which turned into an elegant floral exhibition, was presented by the Department of Botany and Plant Physiology of the Faculty of Biology.

The scientific and methodological forum has been held in Gomel State University since 1998. For the third time it has the status of a republican conference with expanded international participation, where the representatives of universities, research institutes, enterprises and organizations of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine make their reports.

- This year the collection of the conference includes about 350 research papers, - Igor Semchenko noted. - All of them are devoted to reflecting the actual problem field - the issues of qualitative training of specialists in the first and second stages of higher education.