Turkey’s ambassador in the Austrian capital met with Austria’s education minister on Tuesday.
Turkey’s ambassador in the Austrian capital met with Austria’s education minister on Tuesday.
Speaking to AA after his meeting with Austrian Minister for Education, Arts & Culture Claudia Schmied, Turkish ambassador in Vienna Ecvet Tevzan said that they agreed during the gathering to sign a cooperation agreement on education and culture.
Tevzan said Turkish Education Minister Nimet Cubukcu would pay a visit to Austria in near future, while her Austrian counterpart Schmied would visit Turkey in June.
“We have also agreed to start a teacher exchange program between Turkey and Austria which envisages teachers to be assigned in each other’s countries for 3 months to do research,” Tevzan said.
Tevzan said that problems of Turkish children studying in Austria were also on the agenda of his meeting with the Austrian minister.
He said a department would be opened within the body of Vienna University in order to train teachers of Turkish language.
AA
Source: www.worldbulletin.net, 27 January 2010
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