Having welcomed participants and guests of the event, the Minister of Education, Misir Mardanov sincerely congratulated children on June 1st - International Children Defense Day, wished them healthy and prosperous life, expansion of successes gained by them in the education and advised to them to be a patriot.  Mr. Mardanov noted the special attention paying to the children during the independence years of the country, and that the great leader Heydar Aliyev always took care of them. Having talked about steps taken to solve the problem of children in Azerbaijan, the Minister gave broad information on the relevant state program signed by President Ilham Aliyev. He underlined the care shown to children lived in Children’s home and boarding schools by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation’s President, UNESCO and ISESCO goodwill ambassador, MP Mehriban Aliyeva, and stressed that in recent years more than 2000 schools and extra buildings for education establishments were built, and estimated that as one of the priority directions of the state policy.  The Chairman of Happy Future for Children Public Association, Nargiz Kazimova underlined the importance of taking care of children, as well as expressed believed that the activity of state and non government organizations in this field will give fruitful results.  Pupils of children’s homes and boarding schools had performed dance numbers and songs. Moreover, trendy clothes for 10 children presented by the fashion house of ‘Aglamur’ were demonstrated, and gifts were handed over to children. 

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Education Minister, Misir Mardanov in its speech noted the final examination of 9th and 11th grades of secondary schools will begin on June 3rd. He underlined that the 11th grade pupils will take examinations in 8, the 9th grade pupils in 2 subjects as in the previous year. The Minister outlined that in the current academic year 90134 pupils of secondary schools and professional lyceums have taken the test exam for the secondary education, 127796 pupils for the main education level. Having noted test exams holding in 294 exam centres of 4 regions in February, March and April, he added that 4437 pupils of professional lyceums took final exams on April 25. According to the Minister, the 64, 71 per cent of 9th and 41, 25 % of the 11th grades pupils, who took part in final exams, had a good academic progress. Moreover, the examination’ process has been improved; pupils and parents’ attitude in implementing exams in the centralized order have changed positively, the progress and quality percent of the exam’ results has increased. The Minister noted this growth increased more than ten per cent. Mr. Mardanov draw attention to the final exam dates in 4 regions of the country and noted that exams in 11th grade will last 3, in 9th grade one-and-a-half hours. Afterwards, he added that pupils won the first place in the Subject Olympiads, as well as gained a success in different international Olympiads; knowledge and sport contests are free from exams. The Minister reminded to exam supervisors the importance of personal responsibility in this work, and added all measures have been taken for the successfully implementation of exams. He gave corresponding commissions and recommendations to exam supervisors, and called them to be active in the best performance of duties assigned to them.

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The 16681 pupils of 11th grades took the exam at 54 examination centers. The exam was taken in subjects of mother tongue, mathematics, Azerbaijan history, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography and foreign language. On June 4, the 25586 pupils of the 9th grade of the secondary schools of mentioned districts will take the exam in the mother tongue and mathematic subjects at 57 examination centres. The 1874 pupils, who could not receive the school leaving certificate in previous academic years, today have taken the exam at the 18 examination centers as well. The time allocation for exams in 11th grades is 3 hours, in 9th grades 1.5 hours. 

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The 21975 pupils took the exam at 75 examination centers, which was held in the West Regions. On June 8, the 30160 pupils of the 9th grade of secondary schools of mentioned districts will take the examination in 75 information centers. The 2405 pupils, who could not receive the school leaving certificate in previous academic years, today have taken the exam at the 19 examination centers as well.

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24365 pupils took the exam at 81 examination centres. 2247 pupils, who could not receive the school leaving certificate in previous academic years, today have taken the exam at the 22 examination centres as well. On June 12, 35553 pupils of the 9th grade of the secondary schools of mentioned districts will take the exam at 83 examination centres.

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24933 pupils of Baku took the exam at 73 examination centers and 4083 pupils of Sumgait at 11 examination centers. 1790 people, who could not receive the school leaving certificate in previous academic years in Baku (4 exam centers), and 240 people in Sumgait (1 exam center) took the exam as well. Overall, 26723 pupils took the exam at 77 examination centers of Baku city, and 4323 pupils at 12 examination centers of Sumgait.  

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Opening the event, Education Minister, Misir Mardanov noted the cooperation established between the Ministry of Education and the World Bank during the last years, and reforms carried out in the education system. Afterwards, he has asked to speak the representative of the World Bank.  Having thanked participants of presentation, Lire Ersado informed them on the Azerbaijan living conditions assessment report. She underlined that in Azerbaijan were taken significant measures for improvement standards of living, noted the economic growth in the country and realization of measures for poverty reduction. Moreover, the guest informed participants on other areas studied by them and the role of education in the improvement of living conditions of people. According to her, they are informed on achievements in these fields and implemented works.  L. Ersado talked about problems existed in the pre-school and higher education area, enrolment rates to universities of Azerbaijan, and highlighted the necessity to put an increasing attention to this area in terms of human resources development. Afterwards, slides, which illustrated the expenditure on education, participation of Azerbaijani students in the PISA program, use of educational materials by teachers and other issues have been shown. Minister Mardanov expressed his attitude about certain issues mentioned in the presentation. Moreover, he noted works carried out in the direction to improve the educational level. Having underlined the importance of education’s quality, the Minister talked about provided measures in this direction, as well as expressed his opinions on the importance of initial vocational training development.

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Information on the final examination assessment, which will be writing to the school-leaving certificate of pupils, will be posted on the examination sector of the website of the Ministry of Education (www.edu.gov.az) on June 21, 2010. Despite receiving the assessment results, pupils also will be able to see series and numbers of the certificate.  Information on the final examination assessment, which will be writing to the school-leaving certificate of pupils, in accordance with results of final exams (9th grade) for the main education level, will be posted on the Ministry’s website (www.edu.gov.az) on June 23, 2010. It should be mentioned that the applications and complaints related to the results of examination will be received at city and district education departments, where pupils had studied. Including, pupils studied in Baku will appeal to Baku city Education Department, pupils studied in Ganja to Ganja city Education Department, in Absheron to the Absheron district Education Department and, etc. In local areas, applications and complaints connected with the examination will be received until June 26, 2010.

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