OREANDA-NEWS. On August 13, 2008  in Akorda the session of the Republican Commission on training the personnel abroad under the Chairmanship of the State Secretary Kanat Saudabayev was held, reported the Official website www.akorda.kz.

Mr Saudabayev said that “the effective realisation of the “Bolashak” Presidential scholarships programme is one of the main factors in achieving the strategic objectives of the Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev aimed at Kazakhstan’s entrance to the number of the most developed and competitive countries of the world”.

As asserted by the State Secretary, a massive work was done in modernisation of the “Bolashak” programme, ensuring its utmost transparency, increasing the demand for the process of selection of the scholarship contenders. Specifically aimed quotas were created for the residents of rural areas, public service personnel, employees working in the fields of science and education. Now the premium foreign education becomes accessible for the best graduates of rural schools, people that showed positive efforts in public service, scientific and educational work.

On the session of the Commission the Minister of Education and Science Mr Tuimebayev presented the report on the results of the analysis aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the “Bolashak” programme realisation and the contribution to the development of Kazakhstan made by the “Bolashak” graduates.

According to the results of the session of the Republican Commission on training the personnel abroad, the decision to award 356 contenders with the “Bolashak” international scholarship was made.

The majority of the scholarship holders are going to study at the universities of Great Britain, USA, Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine and China in the areas of economics, medicine, information science and information systems, public policy, finance, demography, accounting and audit, oil and gas engineering, international law.