ANAS held an event dedicated to the Day of Knowledge On September 16.

Opening the event, President of ANAS, academician Akif Alizadeh congratulated the masters, wished success in their further scientific work. Academician Akif Alizadeh stressed that, the training of highly qualified specialists and scientific personnel in the society serves to raise the level of education and scientific research in the country, with the support of the country's leadership for the first time in 2015. A. Alizadeh noted that, admission to the master's program carried out in a number of priority specialties.

ANAS President noted that, the creation of a master's program at the Academy is aimed to solving problems in several areas, noting that the most important issue is personnel training. “There is a new step in the direction of staff training at ANAS. From 134 people who graduated from ANAS the 82 are our employees. In general, 166 masters who study at the academy receive not only higher education, but also enrich their skills in our laboratories.

Akif Alizadeh said that, masters who study at the academy will practice in scientific laboratories, get acquainted with the latest achievements of science, defend the thesis on modern and perspective topics and communicate with outstanding scientists. He also noted the creation of all conditions in ANAS for undergraduates in the field of science.

According to academician, the majority of completed master's programmes of ANAS continue their studies in doctoral studies, 48 students continue their studies on the Ph.D. training program. The academician added that five of them were accepted into leading world universities such as Oxford, Montpellier in France, Jilin Agriculture in China, Physical Research in Moscow, one of the graduates of this year entered the Kocaeli University in Turkey on the basis of a scholarship in geophysics.

Academician Akif Alizadeh also spoke about the annual "Master's Competition", which aims to underpin the growth of scientific achievements of undergraduates, and to stimulate students' achievements in education and science. He said that this year the students of the master's degree, as well as those in science and education, will be awarded special scholarships of the President of ANAS.

Giving information about the results of this year's admission, Akif Alizadeh said that this year, the number of students enrolled in ABAS was twice higher than in previous years. This is a vivid example of the growing interest of young people to study at the Master studies of ANAS, he noted

"For the first time, ANAS has started its paid master's training this year," said A. Alizadeh, adding that 120 students from 22 specialties and 75 specialties have been admitted to the magistracy of ANAS this year.

Then, academician-secretary of ANAS, corresponding member of ANAS Aminaga Sadigov presented statistics on the results of admission to the magistracy. He spoke about the achievements of the magistracy in the academy, innovations and achievements in the educational policy of master studies of ANAS.

Then Khalida Aliyeva, the first-year undergraduate student of the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of ANAS, Khalala Askerli, a first-year undergraduate student at the Nasimi Institute of Linguistics, Firuza Rzayeva 2nd year undergraduate from the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Yusif Aliyev, master graduate of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics.

Finally, undergraduates of ANAS received student tickets.

In addition, the head of the Doctoral studies department of the Head Department of Science and Education of the Presidium of ANAS, PhD in chemistry Omar Gulalov, Laboratory heads of the Institute of Petrochemical Processes – Almaz Taghiyeva, Nizami Murselov and senior researcher of the very institute Mahyaddin Iskandarov, head of the Education Department of the Institute of Control Systems, PhD in mathematics Sevinj Guliyeva, Head of the Training and Innovation Center of the Institute of Information Technology Rasmiyya Mahmudova, head of the Education Department of the Institute of Linguistics PhD in Philology Gatiba Guliyeva, and head of the Education Department of the Institute of Biology and Biotechnology PhD in Biology Samira Rustamova were awarded the badge "Advanced Education Worker of the Republic of Azerbaijan”.

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