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Hamlet Isaxanli In Search of “Khazar” - DSpace at Khazar University

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28<strong>In</strong> <strong>Search</strong> <strong>of</strong> "<strong>Khazar</strong>"programs and curricula will be devised in order to meettoday’s needs.H. Hasanov stopped me again. The PrimerMinister <strong>of</strong>ten changed the direction <strong>of</strong> the convers<strong>at</strong>ionand didn’t allow ch<strong>at</strong>tering and monotony.- To choose English as the language <strong>of</strong> instructionis very important and interesting. How about theteachers? Are there Azerbaijani specialists able to teachdifferent subjects in English?- We have no problem with this in sciences. As tosocial-political sciences and humanities, <strong>of</strong> course, wehave very few specialists. Although it’s a small number,one can find scholars and teachers speaking English(even French) here. It should be sufficient to train asmall group <strong>of</strong> students. On the other hand, if we don’thave enough English speaking specialists, we can useAzerbaijani and Russian for the beginning. One <strong>of</strong> themain tasks is to enable students to read books andscholarly articles in English. And this will be possible <strong>at</strong>the university we are discussing now. At the same timesuch a university must establish broad foreign rel<strong>at</strong>ions.Eventually, the visiting foreign scholars can speed upthe English language educ<strong>at</strong>ion process.- How will you manage to invite the foreignscholars? Do you have money?I smiled, and decided to pass on this question inorder not to wander away from the main subject(n<strong>at</strong>urally, I could answer the question, to mentionreceiving grants and other ways). I tried to demonstr<strong>at</strong>eyet again a sense <strong>of</strong> self-confidence:- There are ways <strong>of</strong> inviting a small group <strong>of</strong>teachers. We have friends too and their help will be <strong>of</strong>gre<strong>at</strong> importance. Some foreign scholars, our friends,want to come to Azerbaijan to help us. They are aware

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