educating in azerbaijan

8/7/2019 EDUCATING in Azerbaijan

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Azerbaijan has inherited from the pasta strong educational system. It becameeven more widespread and prominentduring the Soviet period. Now with thecollapse of the Soviet Union at the end

of 1991, education is facing a severecrisis as the economic basis and orga-nizational structure for education hashad to be assumed by

each of the individualrepublics.


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Some figuresThere are approximately 108,000children enrolled in kindergarten,1.367 million in primary and

secondary school, about 53,000college and technical lyceum studentsand 140,000 university students.


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Azerbaijan's educational system includesapproximately 1650 kindergartens, 4,600primary and secondary schools, 180technical lyceums, 61 colleges, and 53

institutions of higher education.


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About 200,000 professors, teachers,

and lecturers are involved in education -13,000 of them at universities. About1,000 university educators have earnedour highest degree, Doctor of Science

(equivalent to a post-graduate degree inWestern countries), and more than 6,000of them have earned their Candidate'sDegree (Doctorate Degree).


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Russian Language Link is Disappearing

In the past, it was the Russian languagethat gave us access to the latestachievements in scientific thought. But thelinks have been broken these days. We used

to have access to a tremendous number ofmajor international academic journals or, atleast, Russian translations of themIn addition, since so many of our mature

scholars have concentrated single-mindedlyon mastering Russian, many don't knowEnglish or other European languages, andnow they find themselves cut off from theinternational academic community.


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Lack of ComputerLiteracy

Another problem relates toour lack of computer know-ledge and know-how. In theformer Soviet Union, wewrote mostly by hand. But

times have changed. Noweverywhere in the world,people are communicatingcomputers.


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Importing Paperand Pencils

Despite the fact thatso many people areinvolved in education inAzerbaijan, there isstill no single enterprise

in the entire countrythat produces suppliesand equipment relatedto education.


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NewEducational

System Adopted

A new "three-tiered" or "three-degree"system (Bachelor's, Master's and Doc-torate) similar to that used in the Uni-ted States and Europe.


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Refugee Children

In Azerbaijan, one person out of every se-ven is a refugee. An estimated 200,000children of primary school age are refu-gees. Approximately 15,000 teachers, dis-placed themselves, have lost their jobs andare scattered all over the country.


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Educational communities have beenscattered and mentoring relationshipsbroken. Thousands of children, livingin "tent cities" or improvised shelters

made of reeds or mud bricksalongside highways, have not atten-ded school for the past three tofour years, and some-times longer.


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Alphabet TransitionThis is not the first time we'vefaced this problem. It happenedearlier this century when Arabicwas substituted with a modified-Latin script in 1928. Arabic had

been our alphabet for more thana thousand years since the 7thcentury. Our alphabet changedagain in 1938 when Cyrillic wasimposed by Soviet authoritiesand the Latin forbidden.

( But it's not just the alphabet that hasofficially been changed-our ideological,cultural and historical point of view isbeing reevaluated at thesame time. )


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INSTITUTION TYPES & CREDENTIALS

Types of highereducationinstitutions:

UniversityAcademyInstitute

CollegeConservatoire

School leavingand highereducationcredentials:Certificate of GeneralEducationBachelor (Bakalavr)Diploma of SpecialistMagistr (Master)Doctorate (PhD)


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STRUCTURE OFEDUCATION SYSTEM


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Pre-higher education(Structure of school system)

Primary Education:Length of program in years: 4

Age level from: 6 to: 10


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Bas ic Educ a tion:

Length of program in years: 5 Age level from: 10 to: 15 Certificate/diploma awarded: Certificateof Primary Education


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Second ary Second ary

Type of school providing thiseducation: High School

Length of program in years: 2 Age level from: 15 to: 17 Certificate/diploma awarded:

Certificate of General Education


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Vocational Education 108 vocational institutions, including

47 vocational lyceums, 1 VocationalEducation Centre and 59 vocationalschools are functioning undersubmission of the Ministryof Education. 8 out of them

belong to prison establish-ments.

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Teacher Education Teachers are university graduates.

They are mostly trained at theAzerbaijan State Pedagogical Univer-sity, Azerbaijan Institute of Tea-chers, and Ganja State

University.


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The Ministry of Education of

Azerbaijan In 1988 all three departments wereabolished by the decision of the Council ofMinisters, and on their base were createdthe Ministry of National Education andapproved its structure. The Ministry wasreorganized into Education Ministry on 3

September, 1993 by the order of thePresident of the Azerbaijan Republic. ThePresidential decree dated March 1, 2005approved Regulations of the Ministry.


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Which problems do we have abouteducation in Azerbaijan?

What can be done?

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