38% Teachers in Azerbaijan to pass ICT training says Education Minister

It is expected that around 38 % of teachers in Azerbaijan will pass trainings on ICT in 2010, as described by the Azerbaijani Education Minister, Misir Mardanov, in his address at an international conference on 'Economic development through education and technology'. He explained that in recent years the pan is to increase the figure to 67%, which implies that 114,000 teachers will pass trainings. In future it is being anticipated that multi-stage training will be sought for teachers. The event was attended by the Minister of Communications and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov, UNESCO's advisor on ICT Marius Lukosiunas, representatives of Microsoft and the University of Edinburgh.