Start is given to 2012/13 academic year

New academic year will begin on Saturday on September 15 in the schools and universities of Azerbaijan;  in 2004 the day  was declared by the President, the  Day of Knowledge. 

The first bell will sound  in  4505 schools, and 1.3 million students will start sit at desks. 

There will be more than 130,000 first-graders, of which a quarter  is in   Baku.

Overall, the number of students has grown in the country by  five thousand - it is a stable  annual rate in recent years.  

Doors  of 162 secondary schools will open for schools children, and 103 schools will take students renovated. 

This year, the university received 31,994 applicants, including about seven thousand students from 50 countries, the number of which is growing from year to year. 

Among the innovations in the 2012/13 academic year, the head of State Student Admission Commission (SSAC), Maleyka Abbaszadeh,  called at the  press conference on Friday,  the  postponement of repeated examinations for  9 grade  students  from autumn to spring. She explained this by the need to create conditions for admission to specialized secondary schools students immediately after the end of the school year. 

Abasszade also said that this year of 117,363 graduates of  nine- grade, 81% showed a result allowing to continue their education in schools. Ironically, most of the poor results  were noted in the examinations  on the native language. 

Approval of new rules for final examinations in the schools, that have been  developed  by the  SSAC,  are expected in October, but  she did not say what is their essence.-0-