Education Ministry to channel 15 bln tenge for Bolashak program

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - 15 billion tenge will be allocated for Bolashak program in 2015, this has been announced today by the Minister of Education Aslan Sarinzhipov.

According to his words, on average about 2.5-3 thousand students are studying abroad under this program. Over 20 years, the scholarship has been awarded to 10,363 Kazakhstan citizens, including 6,975 graduates of the program. After graduation, specialists have to work for 5 years in the organisation that got them into the Bolashak program, concluded A. Sarinzhipov.