Science

The Current State and Development Prospects of Scientific Research at the Minsk Institute of Management

The purpose of the Minsk Institute of Management, as any higher educational institution, is that of providing the functions of the educational and cultural centre. This purpose is achieved with the help of science which is called upon to serve as the necessary tool of realization of the specified functions. The important role assigned to science is explained by the following fundamental reasons:

1. Preparation of qualified experts is impossible without the inclusion of scientific research results, reflecting modern achievements of scientific and technical progress, in educational process. It is especially important for higher educational institutions of economic specialization. During the last three decades the world has seen the new type of economy, which presupposes the dependence of productivity and competitiveness of management subjects on their ability to process and effectively use information.

2. Professional training of specialists of high and highest qualifications during their Master's degree training, post-graduate education and PhD training should provide the necessary access of graduate, post-graduate and PhD students as well as their supervisors and advisers to the scientific research process.

3. Introduction of developments of scientific, educational and research character should assist students and teachers in gaining practical experience.

Scientific and research work of MIM faculty includes:

• Implementation of scientific research projects (in the form of planned or newly initiated research);
• Preparation of dissertations, studies, textbooks and teaching aids as well as academic articles and report summaries for scientific conferences, symposiums and seminars;
• Scientific editing and reviewing of studies, textbooks, teaching aids, collected scientific articles, separate scientific articles, dissertations and dissertation summaries;
• Work in scientific educational associations attached to the administration bodies of universities, ministries and departments;
• Participation in the work of councils dealing with defending theses, scientific councils of higher educational institutions, problem - solving scientific teaching methods seminars, departmental scientific methods committees;
• Management of students research work (NIRS);
• Providing scientific consultation for enterprises, organizations and so on MIM faculty research work is carried out in three main fields;
• Perfecting the quality of educational process on the basis of applying modern educational technologies;
• Legal provision of social and economic reforms;
• Problems of the real sector of the Belarus economy and developing proposals for its reform.

These scientific fields are covered in the Institute's general topic which includes 12 chair sections and 9 chair Scientific and Research Work (NIR) sections, which are carried out on the basis of internal financing. Two of NIR are carried out by MIM faculty and financed through external sources: State Programme Fundamental Research "Strategy of scientific and technical and innovation development of Belarus" (supervisor - Professor T.P. Eliseeva); "The evaluation of financial and economic state, analysis and forecasting of perspective development of RPUP "Minsk Factory of Sparkling Wines" (supervisor - assistant professor J.N.Busygin).

In the years 2002 and 2003 textbooks, educational aids and educational and systematic complexes and studies, which attracted significant interest in scientific and pedagogical society of Belarus, were published:

• I.M.Lemeshevsky; "Economics Theory", vol.1, 2002 (First volume of the three planned)
• V.I.Goncharov; "Management", section 2, 2002
• E.F.Michulis; "Criminal Law, 2002
• P.I.Bondar; "Political Science", 2003 (as a co-author)
• V.G.Tihinya; "Civil Procedural Law in the Republic of Belarus", 2002
• V.G.Tihinya; "Civil Process", vol.1, 2002, vol.2, 2003
• V.A.Kruglov, "Administrative offence proceedings", 2002
• N.V.Susha, V.V.Kruglikov, "Fundamentals of management", 2003

We would also like to draw particular attention to the fact that the doctoral thesis was defended by the rector of MIM Nikolay V. Susha and the PhD theses were defended by faculty lecturers Sergey N. Zen and Irina A. Kazakevich.