The 4th meeting of the Intergovernmental Russian-Ghanaian Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation was held in the capital of the Republic of Ghana, Accra. The meeting was attended by the Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Public Relations of the Ministry of Education of Russia, Usman Rassukhanov. During the event, the parties discussed the expansion of cooperation between the two countries in various fields, including education.
Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Public Relations of the Ministry of Education of Russia Usman Rassukhanov noted the great potential of cooperation between Russia and Ghana in the field of education.
“Cooperation in the field of education between our states is currently at the stage of development and has great potential. Russian Russian Language Education Center has been established, thanks to which more than 150 Ghanaians were able to start learning Russian. I am glad to note that we already have the results of our joint work: the Center for Open Education in Russian and Russian Language Teaching has been created. The Ghanaian delegation took part in the international competition of the High–Tech Championship in Veliky Novgorod and showed a significant level of training of specialists,” Usman Rassukhanov stressed.
The delegation of Ghana visited Russia in September this year to participate in the High-Tech Championship. The country’s representatives in the international competition won two prizes (bronze medals) according to the competencies “Flying robotics” and “Neural networks and big data”.
Following the meeting of the Intergovernmental Russian-Ghanaian Commission, it was decided to prepare a bilateral memorandum of cooperation between the ministries in charge of education in the two countries.
The Ghanaian side confirmed its interest in developing cooperation in the field of general, secondary vocational and additional education. Russian Russian representatives expressed their interest in creating conditions in the country for studying the Russian language and general education subjects in Russian.
In addition, during the working trip, Usman Rassukhanov met with Mamle Andrews, Director General of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Ghana.
The Director of the Department of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation spoke about the vectors of cooperation between the two countries in the field of education, and also presented the International Humanitarian Project of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation “Russian teacher abroad”.
A source: edu.gov.ru
