Monday, April 23, 2012
Kabul (BNA) “The Russian Federation assists the higher education ministry in provision of educational scholarships and other academic spheres”, said Prof. Dr. Obaidullah Obaid Minister of Higher Education in a meeting with the Russian ambassador to Kabul Andre Awee Tessian.
At the meeting Dr. Obaid explained the impacts of war in the past three decades in higher education, the role of higher education in ensuring peace and lasting stability in the country and the assistance of the international community in this respect and while shedding light on his ministry’s programs asked the Russian ambassador to cooperate with the ministry.
Increasing of educational scholarships, removal of the existing problems of Afghan students in Russia and the assistance of the Russian government towards reconstruction and strengthening of the educational institutions especially the Kabul Poly Technical University were the main requests of the higher education minister in the meeting.
The Russian ambassador informed Dr. Obeid of his country’s decision towards assisting Afghanistan especially of educational institutions and said that the assistance will be offered in educational scholarships and other assistance to the higher educational institutions in coordination with the higher education ministry.
He asked Dr. Obaid to visit Russian and in his meeting with his Russian counterpart discuss Russian government’s assistance with the Afghan higher education ministry.
It is said that presently over 380 Afghan students are studying in Russian federation.
