Scientists from Canadian Waterloo train senior Baku not only the tricks of mathematics and computer science, but also the basics of a career in computer science and ICT in general.
This action (11 to 15 February) will be for guidance, along with advertising. Work with Azerbaijani students is nothing new for the overseas pros who think local "raw" a real treasure. Today at Waterloo enrolled 35 students through the AP state program of study abroad.
Those wishing to study at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of said appeal to the Baku Education Information Center, where the meeting will take place, as well as tests conducted in English.
Having successfully passed the test and passing the required documents, applicants will receive a document for university of Waterloo.
Only within the "State Program on education of Azerbaijan youth abroad in 2007-2015" 1 thousand 824 Azerbaijani students were sent to study in 27 countries at public expense (Ministry of Education).
In general, the (mostly in Turkey, Russia, UK, USA) in the 2012-13 academic year, foreign institutions registered 10 700 citizens of our country. Now about 50 thousand young Azerbaijanis settled with higher education in the CIS countries and Europe. Most of them do not return to the country.
During the discussion of the state budget for this year the topic particularly touched chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Regional Policy MP Arif Rahimzadeh. According to him, higher education is allocated very few resources (57.16 million manat on the set of 'educational pie' in 1.53 billion). The country imports modern technology, but there is no real training for its use.
The MP believes that the need for the development of science concepts as well as reform of the Academy of Sciences, the prioritization of science. While the salary of a scientist is at the level of AZN 200-400, the best minds will flow out to overseas centers, which already at the start of their career they will be paid 10 times more. - 17D-
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