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| | New programme to get teachers to rural areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The industrious teacher-to-be, originally from the eastern Issyk-Kul province, studies biology at the Kyrgyz National State University (KNSU) and is expected to graduate this summer, but she is not optimistic about returning to her native Tamchi village on the northern shore of lake Issy-Kul and teaching children there. |
 | | According to the education ministry, the young teacher deposit project will financially assist 200 new rural teachers over three academic years in two pilot provinces - Issyk-Kul and northwestern Talas - beginning in September 2005. |
 | | "Yes, I have heard about such a project and I will go to work in any province, no matter how far from a city, with great pleasure," Almagul Kocherbaeva, a fourth-year student at the Kyrgyz Pedagogical University, told IRIN. |
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