“President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on strengthening the interaction of science and education and improving management in this area. According to the decree, the Ministry of Education was renamed the Ministry of Science and Education, it is also provided for the creation of two agencies in the subordination of the Ministry of Science and Education and transfer to submission Departments of a number of structures of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. On behalf of the educational community, we thank the head of state for the decree “On the Development of Science and Education.” About this on his page on Facebook was written by the Minister of Education of Azerbaijan Emin Amrullaev.
Recall that on the eve of President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree “On some measures to improve the management in the field of science and education in the Azerbaijan Republic” to strengthen ties between science and education and improve management in this area.
According to the document, from now on the Ministry of Education will be called the Ministry of Science and Education and will pursue state policy and regulation in the field of science. The new ministry has transferred the powers to coordinate scientific activities of scientific institutions and organizations. With the new department, a State Agency for Science and Higher Education and the State Agency for Preschool and General Education are created. Institutes of technical and natural sciences of Nana are also transferred to the Ministry of Science and Education.