Misir Mardanov: About 10 000 Azerbaijani youth are getting education abroad now

About 10 000 Azerbaijani youth are studying in various countries now. This number is increasing speedily”, said Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov at the 9th ASAIF international summer forum which is held in Kempinski Hotel Badamdar.

He said that the great majority of the Azerbaijani students are getting education in Turkey and Russia. Minister said that the education abroad was not controlled in the first years of the independence: “But now the education of Azerbaijanis abroad is completely controlled by the government. The great majority of them are the students who gained good results in the entrance exams to the higher educational establishments”.

Minister said that main priority specialties for Azerbaijanis studying abroad are the specialties of mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, informatics, chemistry, agriculture.

Mardanov reminded that for the first time 100 people were sent to get education abroad during the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan in 1919, but then the fate of many of them were unknown: “The second wave of education abroad started in 1960-1980s on the initiative of Heydar Aliyev”.


/APA/