KULOB, April 14, Asia-Plus  --  The branch of Tajik State Technological University in Kulob has opened its classes at three local enterprises – Kulobtextiles, Kulob milk plant and Kulob Selkhoztechnika, Madisso Sadulloyev, the deputy director of the Kulob branch of Technological University, told a press conference on April 13. 

According to him, this will allow their students combining theoretical lessons with the practical ones.  “The branch now trains specialists in four disciplines and it currently has totaling 472 students,” the deputy director said    

 “The first- and the second-year students study under new system known as the Bologna process,” said Sadulloyev.  “At present, three lecturers from the Kulob branch are in Italy to study this process and another group will be sent to Germany in a couple of months.”

The purpose of the Bologna process (or Bologna accords) is to create the European higher education area by making academic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and compatible throughout Europe.  It is named after the place it was proposed, the University of Bologna, with the signing in 1999 of the Bologna declaration by Ministers of Education from 29 European countries in the Italian city of Bologna.  This was opened up to other countries signatory to the European Cultural Convention of the Council of Europe , and further governmental meetings have been held in Prague (2001), Berlin (2003), Bergen (2005) and London in spring 2007.