DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT “AZERBAIJAN - 2020: OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE” Project The effective integration of ICT into the management of education will continue and information-based management mechanisms will be used through the creation of a single information system for education. The use of the system for the electronic turnover of documents will be expanded and as a result, transparency in the management of the education system will grow. At the same time, an online TV channel Tahsil TV will be established and presented to the general public. Taking into account that the factor of teachers is of special importance in the efficiency of the education and its achievements, special importance will be attached to the strengthening of teachers’ training. All general education teachers will specialize in active/interactive teaching technologies and inclusive education, and a flexible system will be created to ensure that every teacher learns ICT skills. The training of Azerbaijani teachers will be brought in line with international standards, a stimulating refresher training system for teachers based on a new module-credit system will be developed and mechanisms that meet modern requirements will be created to ensure teachers’ career development, stimulate their activities and spread the working experience of leading teachers. Along with that, differential salaries and an awarding system based on results will be created. The new mechanism employed in the recruitment of pedagogical staff will be improved even further, and material stimulation measures aimed to providing remote village schools with pedagogical staff will be strengthened. The integration of Azerbaijani education into world and European education will increase. Along with the unification of education standards and deepening of the Bologna Process, attention will be paid to the expansion of the international relations of Azerbaijani institutions of education, especially institutions of higher education, and the creation of appropriate conditions for their active involvement in international programmes being implemented in the sphere of education. At the same time, the number of Azerbaijani students studying in leading foreign universities at the expense of the state will reach 5,000 by 2015, and the efficient use of the potential of specialists educated abroad in the country’s development will be ensured. A new state programme will be adopted on the education of young people in foreign countries in 2015-2020. 7.3 The improvement of the social security system In order to ensure social security for the population, purposeful measures will be continued within the framework of the current “state programme on the development of the insurance-pension system in the Azerbaijan Republic in 2009-2015”. In order to deepen the current pension reform even further, a new state programme will be drafted for 201624

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