Prime Minister of Tatarstan Republic met with Kyrgyzstan delegation

On February,7 RT Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov held meeting with delegation of Kyrgyzstan Republic which stayed in Tatarstan with official visit.

The event was also attended by RT Deputy Prime Minister Ravil Muratov, Director of Department of external relations under RT President – Aide to RT President on international issues Timur Akulov, RT Minister of education and science Albert Gilmutdinov, RT Minister of economy Midkhat Shagiakhmetov, RT Minister of labor, employment and social protection Airat Shafigullin, Head of Department of higher, secondary professional education and science under RT Cabinet office Marina Fairushina, rector of KGTU Sergey Diakonov, Director of Kazan branch of Russian state trade-economic university Andrey Artemiev.

“We are pleased to receive such representative delegation of Kyrgyzstan Republic by few reasons, - firstly, our nations have friendly relations, - Head of the Government said opening the meeting. - Tatarstan is realizing many innovations in educational sector: the strategy of education development in RT which has many components has been accepted and is being realized”.

“We set rather ambitious tasks in many spheres. One of them are seriously developing is “electronic school” and “electronic education”,- Ildar Khalikov added.

By his words, out of 37 000 teachers 24 000 are already provided with personal laptops.

“This meeting is also important for us because we find ourselves in special historical period of higher education development. Serious changes happened last academic year in RT: Kazan federal university was founded on the basis of Kazan State University; two Tatarstan universities –Kazan aviation institute and Kazan chemical-technological institute gained status of national research universities. Tatarstan has become the only region in RF which acquired a right for realization of three projects in the sphere of higher education”, - Prime Minister stressed.

Ildar Khalikov informed likewise that since 2006 program of RT Government scholarships for training, retraining and internship of staff in Russian and abroad educational organizations has been realized in republic. 500 mln. roubles have been invested into implementation of this project.

Minister of education and science of Kyrgyzstan Republic Kanat Sadykov thanked Prime Minister Tatarstan for reception on behalf of members of delegation.

By words of Kanat Sadykov, Kyrgyzstan is interested in cooperation with Kazan chemical-technological institute.