The Bill on ratification of the inter-governmental vocational education co-operation between the Azerbaijan Republic and the Turkish Republic was tabled at the meeting that the Milli Majlis Sciences and Education Committee had on 27 May.

Committee Chairman Bakhtiyar Aliyev informed the meeting participants of the document and told them that it was going to open a new page in the bilateral education co-operation to match the successful projects undertaken and implemented between the fraternal countries in other fields. The 15-item protocol of co-operation expresses the intention to acquire the Turkish experience of vocational education as well as to establish vocational education institutions focusing on specialties in information technologies, tourism, furniture fabrication, foodstuff production and design, that is, the areas in which Turkey can boast considerable successes.

According to Mr Aliyev, the consequence will be that the implementation of scientific and technological innovations in vocational training will be accelerated complete with the use of the Turkish experience in training specialists for the priority industries of the country. Then, the Committee Chairman told the assembly of the specific features of the educational institutions to be established under the protocol as well as about the responsibilities of the parties defined by it and the guiding principles of forming the teaching and support staffs and shaping logistics for those institutions. He lauded the intended recognition of double graduate diplomas on the force of the tabled document as its successful dry run by the two governments. The planned scope will underpin the vocational educational reforms under way in Azerbaijan, besides, Mr Aliyev added.

Chairman of the Counting Commission of the Milli Majlis Eldar Guliyev, Deputy Chairman of the Sciences and Education Committee Musa Gasimli and members of the same committee Aghiya Nakhchivanli, Anar Iskandarov, Shahin Seyidzade, Jeyhun Mammadov, Etibar Aliyev and Mushfig Mammadli spoke to say that the protocol inked with Turkey was in line with the goals and tasks of the current reforms in the education sector of Azerbaijan and that it would generate further opportunities to achieve the goals set in the field of vocational education. The MPs described the document, which defines the responsibilities of the parties cleanly, an exemplary one before recommending that it should be tabled at a plenary sitting of the Milli Majlis.

The other Sciences and Education Committee members Ulviya Agayeva, Tamam Jafarova, Kamila Agayeva, Afat Hasanova, Parvin Karimzade and Fatma Yildirim as well as more officials were taking place in the meeting, too.

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