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Azerbaijan is preparing new project in higher education field

Society Materials 24 January 2012 22:12 (UTC +04:00)
World Bank (WB) is preparing a new five-year project related to the higher education system of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan is preparing new project in higher education field

Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan.24 /Trend I.Isabalayeva/

World Bank (WB) is preparing a new five-year project related to the higher education system of Azerbaijan.

The project providing changes in the educational system of Azerbaijan has three main components, the head of the coordination group Education Sector Development Project in Azerbaijan of the Ministry of Education Elvin Rustamov told Trend. These components include quality assurance of higher education funding in higher education, regulation and management in higher education.

It is planned to give grants to the universities in accordance with a component of financing in higher education.

Grants will allow to implement work on opening the only specialty at university and at other universities, Rustamov said. Any university can prepare a grant proposal on opening a new specialty and submit it for funding.

Rustamov noted that the project providing changes in educational system could be prepared at the end of 2011.

According to the head of the coordinating group, project changes in the education system of Azerbaijan can be prepared at the end of last year. But it was delayed due to the need to bring the project into compliance with the strategy of education, development of which started in 2011 by order of the President of Azerbaijan.

The World Bank mission on Education will visit Azerbaijan in February. WB project will be discussed and next steps will be clarified during the visit, Rustamov said

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