Ulaanbaatar
Speaker meets Ural Federal University delegation
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Chairman of the State Great Khural (parliament) Z.Enkhbold Friday received a delegation of the Ural Federal University of Russia.
The head of the delegation thanked the Speaker for the audience and said they are here to "boost cooperation in preparing specialists for mining sector". “Our university collaborates with Schools of Energy; Construction and Architecture; Mechanics and Transportation, and the Institute of Foreign Language at the Mongolian University of Sciences and Technology (MUST). In a scope of this cooperation, we exchange students, support ties between teachers, share textbooks, co-organize conferences, symposium and exhibitions, and host summer training," he said.
In order to expand the collaboration. "we have met with students majoring in mining engineering and technics in Darkhan and Erdenet cities,” Mr Popov added.
The Speaker Enkhbold noted that Mongolia is rich in mionerals and underlined its needs in high class mining ansd energy engineers and technical experts.
“Due to some reasons, a number of Mongolian students studying in Russia has declined. I have considered this matter with the Minister of Education, sharing issues of promoting Mongolian students in Russia and augmenting scholarships for Mongolian students,” the Speaker said.
He also noted that the Ural Federal University (UFU) and the MUST have a big chance to broaden their collaboration, for example, by implementing joint programmes on technologies of turbine structure in metallurgical and energy sectors.
After this the sides shared views on realizing a joint programme on ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy at the MUST and UFU, on running training programme on Russian language, and co-founding a research laboratory.
Present at the meeting were also Ts.Buyantsogtoo, an advisor to the Speaker on social policy; Prof. B.Ochirbat, a rector of the MUST; Dr L.Orosoo, a teacher at the MUST.
