From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 11:08:43 EST
KAZAKHSTAN'S PRESIDENT ADDRESSES EDUCATION SECTOR WORKERS
Speaking on 2 February at a congress in Almaty of teachers
and university faculty members, Nursultan Nazarbaev said that
budget funding for education has been raised from 15 billion
tenges ($100 million) in 2000 to 19 million tenges in 2001,
Interfax reported. Nazarbaev argued that private and public
universities should coexist, and that both should concentrate
on training experts for those sectors of the Kazakh economy
where they are most needed. Nazarbaev also criticized the low
standard of textbooks used in state schools. But rather than
import new and better textbooks, he called for creating a
system for training personnel to compile such teaching aids,
RFE/RL's Almaty bureau reported. LF
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