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150 citizens of Kazakhstan receive education at universities of Egypt

One hundred and fifty Kazakhstan citizens are being trained in higher educational institutions of the Arabian Republic Egypt.

Astana. February 4. Kazakhstan Today - One hundred and fifty Kazakhstan citizens are being trained in higher educational institutions of the Arabian Republic Egypt. The Minister of Education and Science of Kazakhstan Zhanseyit Tuymebayev said during the meeting with vice Foreign Minister of the Arabian Republic Egypt Tamir Abdel Aziz Abdalla Halil on Friday, the agency reports referring to press service of the Minister of Education and Science of Kazakhstan.

According to the press service, Z. Tuymebayev acquainted foreign minister with the results and prospects of the reforms carried out in the field of education and science. The parties discussed possibilities of further development of cooperation between two countries in education and science.

According to the press service, "within the limits of the agreement between the Minister of Education and Science of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of Education of Egypt dated August 21, 1992, 150 citizens of Kazakhstan study at Cairo, Ain-Shams Universities on specialities - Philology, International Relations, Agricultural Sciences, Law, Pedagogics, Archeology, Arabian language, etc., as well as according to the memorandum of mutual understanding between the Minister of Education and Science of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of Education and Scientific Research of Egypt 30 Kazakhstan young people were accepted to the leading Universities of Egypt last year."

Citizens of the friendly Arabian country also study in postgraduate departments of the Kazakhstan high schools. In 2007 seven of them defended master's theses. The Egyptian University of the Islamic Culture Nur-Mubarak founded in 2001 is being constructed in Almaty, the press service informs.

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