OREANDA-NEWS. May 07, 2013. Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Dmytro Tabachnyk has made a trip to the Kingdom of Morocco during which he had negotiations with Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Staff Training of the Kingdom of Morocco Lahcen Daoudi.

The Ministers tackled issues of development of higher education of the two states, possibilities of new cooperation forms in training personnel, which significantly enlarge the existing cooperation forms such as student and scientific pedagogical staff exchange. They agreed on considerable broadening of inter-university ties.

Lahcen Daoudi highly evaluated the level of preparation of specialists in higher educational institutions who successfully work in various economic spheres and state administration of the Kingdom of Morocco. Moreover, the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Staff Training of Morocco aired a wish to enlarge the contingent of Moroccan students in Ukraine. During the talks there were agreed basic principles of intergovernmental Agreement in education and recognition of diplomas, planned to be signed in the second half year of 2013.

Apart from that, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Dmytro Tabachnyk held talks with Minister of National Education Mohammed al Wafa. The Moroccan Minister expressed interest in experience of Ukraine in reforming of secondary school and also highly evaluated innovations concerning learning of foreign languages in Ukrainian comprehensive educational institutions. Another topic for his concern was experience of Ukraine in pre-school education.

Besides, the Ukrainian delegation visited Mu?ammad V-Agdal University in Rabat, the Technopolis scientific research center, the National center of scientific and technical research, International Rabat University and Hassan II University located in Mohammedia.

In the course of a visit to Hassan II University an Agreement on cooperation between the mentioned university and Kharkiv national university named after V.N.Karazin was signed. In the university Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Dmytro Tabachnyk communicated with Moroccan students and answered their questions.