SOCAR and its partners in the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) and the British Council have held a signing ceremony to finance the project "Improving the English language skills of students studying in SABAH postgraduate groups".

The document was signed by Fuad Ahmadov, Executive Director of SOCAR Midstream, and Francis Gardener-Trejo, the British Council Director in Azerbaijan.

The event was attended by SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev, Minister of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan Emin Amrullayev, British Ambassador to Azerbaijan James Sharp, Rector of Baku Engineering University (BEU), Professor Havar Mammadov, Head of the Cyber Security program for the SABAH master's project PhDş in Technology Gunay Abdiyeva-Aliyeva, as well as rectors and program managers of other universities participating in the project.

Under a 10-month project implemented by the British Council (from October 2021 to July 2022),  372 students of SABAH postgraduate groups of 7 universities will improve their English language skills within 150 academic hours. The project aims to continuously improve the quality of education in Azerbaijan and improve the English language skills of talented graduate-level students studying in SABAH postgraduate groups, to ensure they gain direct access to modern English-language scientific literature.

According to the document, under the SABAH project, BEU graduate students in "Cyber Security" specialty will also join the training on their English language levels by the British Council with the support of SOCAR.

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