Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia will again send SMA (senor secondary school) students to the international science olympics for physics, mathematics, biology, and chemistry in July 2010.
The teams on Monday were received by National Education Minister Mohammad Nuh at his office in Jakarta Monday in the company of SMA Development Director Sungkowo.
The minister said the ministry made a significant jump in preparing new doctors. "In the next five years there must be a significant jump in the production of potential young doctors," he said when receiving the Olympic team.
Starting in 2010, the minister said, the government provides Rp 1 trillion in scholarships until S3 level. Each year he said some 1000 to 3000 scholarships would be issued.
He said right now there are 23 thousand of the 270 thousand lecturers in the universities. The total is less than 10 percent of the total number of lecturers. "We must be able to prepare foreign scholarships for 400-500 seats and scholarships for 1,500 domestic seats," he said.(*)
Source: Antara News
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