PM ATTENDS OPENING OF ACADEMIC YEAR

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Prime Minister attended the opening of academic year at school 92 on Monday. This school, established in 1991, is starting this academic year in a new building. It has implemented a “Talent” programme with much success, having 16 kinds of study-groups, and many of its children achieved in sports and arts. At the opening, the PM N.Altankhuyag gave gifts to B.Garidmagnai, a pupil from 10th grade, a silver medalist of Asian Championship of Chess who just returned home, and others. He noted that the schools must be a field of teachers-children-parents cooperation. “It is apparent that this school is a role model of such an cooperation. It has a garden, created at initiative and involvement of parents, and it discover and develop children’s talents,' he said. A number of children entering general education schools reached 59,352, the largest number in the last 20 years. In 2014-2015 academic year, elementary schools will be pursuing a renovated programme, said B.Nasanbayar, a head of Strategy and Policy Planning department of Ministry of Education and Sciences.