DUSHANBE, February 12, 2013, Asia-Plus  -- The Ministry of Education and Science of China has allocated a quota of 92 students to Tajikistan for the 2013-2014 academic year, Abdusattor Odinayev, an official with the Ministry of Education (MoE) of Tajikistan, told Asia-Plus in an interview.

According to him, a MoE has already announced competition for those seats.  “60 seats have been allocated to students from the Russian-Tajik Slavic University (RTSU) and Tajik State Institute of Languages and students from other Tajik universities may participate in the competition for the remaining 32 seats,” Odinayev said.

Persons competing for the remaining 32 seats may take a year-long Chinese language course or enter a thee-year postgraduate course in China.

From 2008 to 2012, 285 students from Tajikistan were sent to study at Chinese universities.

In all, 1,269 Tajik students were sent to study at universities in foreign counties.  Education ministries from Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey and many other countries allocate student quotas to Tajikistan every year, Odinayev added.