SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
AZERBAIJANI PUPILS IN AMERICA
As correspondent of AzerTAj reports, opening the conference, director of the American International Council of Education (АССЕLS) on the country Jeremy Tash has told about essence of the carried out program, has congratulated the pupils who rounded education, and also sent in the USA in the next educational year, has wished them successes. He has told: “Financed by the US State Department the program FLEX functions more than 10 years and for this time more than 450 pupils from Azerbaijan within one year were trained in high schools of the United State, having placed in the American families, directly got acquainted with culture, traditions, customs of this people. It is pleasant, that as against the last years in the competition of this year, which has been lead among 9-10-11 grades of Azerbaijan, schools, have taken part more than 2 thousand pupils.
Congratulating pupils, Minister of Education Misir Mardanov has told: “Realization of this program is a part of the American - Azerbaijan cooperation. It is very glad and proud of that we have youth of so high intellectual level. They have adequately presented the country in such state as the USA, and have come back with the big successes.”
The Minister also has recommended to the pupils sent in the USA in the next educational year, to take with them materials, cassettes about our Republic, its history, geography, culture, customs, traditions, about our hardest problem - the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorny Karabakh conflict and more than one million refugees and IDPs, and bring all this to the notice of public the USA which is not having wide information on Azerbaijan.
The pupils have told about the impressions during their training in America, residing at the American families, the won successes, about similarity and the distinctive sides of education systems of two countries.
At the meeting, there was the representative of US embassy in our country on public relations Nile МcGertty.