The aim of the project was to equip high school students with modern and competitive Computer Science knowledge and skills to help them integrate into the new global information economy.
The project was launched in December 2017 in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Institute of Education. The full scope of the project has been successfully delivered resulting in preparation and application of a modern Computer Science curriculum for the 10th and 11th grades of secondary schools based on the international standards, development of new teaching and learning materials for the 10th and 11th grades to help the application of the new curriculum, provision of relevant trainings to high school teachers to improve the quality of Computer Science teaching.
The project covered 25 selected schools from Baku providing training to 50 teachers – 2 from each school, who now are piloting the effective use of the new curriculum. The teachers’ training programme included the English language and IT courses such as Computer Science in Modern World, Computer Science Principles and Topics in Computer Science.
Bakhtiyar Aslanbayli, bp’s Vice president Middle East and Caspian, Communications and Advocacy, said: “This is one of the very successful educational projects that we have delivered in collaboration with the Ministry of Education. We are pleased to see that the new curriculum as well as the new learning and teaching manuals are now being effectively used in 25 Baku schools helping the 50 teachers – participants in the project, do their job in a much more innovative and modern way. We hope that the success and the significant improvement of Computer Science teaching in the 25 selected schools will encourage other high schools to use the same curriculum and teaching materials. This would result in the countrywide expansion of this international standard educational practice. I would like to thank the Ministry of Education, the Institute of Education, the International Training and Project Centre, the teachers and all others involved in the project for their excellent collaboration for the benefit of about 1000 high schoolers and, hopefully, much more in the future.”
“Computer Science represents one of the fastest growing career opportunities in the world. The project implemented jointly with bp in Azerbaijan aims to encourage students from school years to understand what those opportunities are and choose their own career paths. We’d like to see our students not only as users of advanced ICT technologies, but also as those who design and engineer them. For this purpose, we developed teaching and learning materials within this pilot project to enhance logical thinking and problem-solving capabilities of high school students while equipping them with the essentials of Python programming.”
Mahabbat Valiyeva, Deputy Minister of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan
The total value of the project was about 800,000 AZN. The project was implemented by the International Training and Project Centre.
Notes to Editors
Over the past 27 years bp and its co-venturers have supported a large number of major social investment projects. These have included educational and capacity-building programmes, building skills and capabilities in local communities, improving access to social infrastructure in communities, supporting local enterprises through provision of access to finance and training, support for cultural legacy and sport, as well as technical assistance to public institutions.
In the first three quarters of 2020, bp and the co-venturers in bp-operated joint ventures spent more than $2.6 million in Azerbaijan on social investment projects.
In addition, in the first three quarters of the year, bp alone invested over $4.1 million in the country through various social projects.
This includes bp’s recent 3 million-dollar support to the country in its fight to relieve the COVID-19 pandemic situation. This contribution was specifically spent to purchase overseas biochemical and PCR laboratories, bring them to the country and install in TABIB’s New Clinics, also to purchase and bring to the country 100,000 PCR testing sets and associated consumables/reagents and 3 isolation capsules for exceptionally contagious cases. The donation was meant to help enhance the country’s capability to effectively diagnose and treat COVID-19 cases in particular and strengthen the country’s healthcare services in general. In addition, there was a further over 100,000 AZN donation for the same purpose by bp’s employees in Azerbaijan and a 10,000 dollar-worth Castrol lubricants donation by bp Turkey Lubricants meant for TABIB ambulances.
In total, to date bp and the co-venturers in bp-operated joint ventures have invested more than $90 million through social development programmes in Azerbaijan.
For more information about bp and co-venturers’ social investment projects please visit bp Azerbaijan site at www.bp.com/azerbaijan
Tamam Bayatly at BP’s Press Office in Baku.
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