Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 22
By Maksim Tsurkov – Trend:
BP and Azerbaijan’s Education Ministry have launched a joint project worth 358,000 Azerbaijani manats.
The project aims to support the enhancement of the agricultural vocational training in Azerbaijan.
The project is expected to result in the development of a range of new agricultural occupations and trades thus contributing to the country’s plans to raise the efficiency of the agricultural sector.
This will include the development of up-to-date teaching materials, textbooks and training methodology for a number of new agricultural occupations and trades in the country.
As a pilot phase, the project scope also includes the training of some 20 local trainers who will use the new teaching methodology and skills, specializing in the newly-created occupations and trades. If successful the pilot phase experience will be applied to scale up the project to cover all agricultural vocational schools across the country.
Addressing the partnership launch event Sept. 22 in Baku, Gordon Birrell, BP’s regional president for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, said BP and its co-venturers are pleased to join this educational project for communities.
“We believe it supports the overall efforts to increase the employment opportunities for vocational school graduates and helps meet the demands of the local labor market in skilled people specializing in agricultural disciplines,” said Birrell. “This is a substantial project consisting of 12 training modules which will use the newly-created evaluation frameworks, curriculum, textbooks and other teaching materials.”
Development of the non-oil sector is Azerbaijani state’s priority and this project will contribute to the country’s extensive efforts to boost the agricultural sector among other non-oil areas, he added.
The joint project will be implemented by the British Council. The newly-developed occupations and disciplines will cover such areas as horticulture (plants and their usage, sowing and maintenance/farming, soil and substrates – 3 modules), crop production (grain growing, growing of fruit, maize cultivation, root crops growing, cotton growing – 5 modules) and agricultural machinery/agro-service (machine maintenance, machine repair, use of agricultural machine, work completion with agricultural machine – 4 modules).
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