Ministry of Agriculture proposes replacing educational grants with interest-free loans
"To solve the issue of personnel training, it is necessary to involve business, so that they act as customers to universities. And, perhaps, it is necessary to move from educational grants to subsidized, if one works for the company, interest-free loans. The scheme is quite applicable and is used in a number of countries. So that is, basically, the same grant, but with a requirement to work in the received specialty," Mr. Rakhimbekov said.
Deputy Minister also noted that at present many graduates of veterinary, agronomical and engineering faculties of agrarian universities retrain as "lawyer" or "economist".
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