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BP presents program on support education for State Oil Academy

01 June 2011 08:22 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ali Ahmedov - APA-Economics. BPâ€™s Bursary Programme is an ongoing initiative which was first launched in 2007 with the aim to motivate academic excellence of students who are specialising in petroleum engineering and geosciences at the State Oil Academy.

As part of this programme some 120 first year students majoring in petroleum engineering and geological prospecting at the State Oil Academy received BPâ€™s bursary awards (1,000 AZN each) in 2007 and 2008. These were mainly winners of the city, regional and national Olympiads, as well as talented students from internally displaced and refugee families.

BPâ€™s bursary programme together with another equally important educational initiative funded by BP together with its co-venturers â€“ Azerbaijan oil and gas scholarship initiative, provides the main resourcing line for the companyâ€™s annual summer internship programme. In 2009, for instance, 70% of the students, who practiced engineering and geosciences summer internship with BP, were recipients of either BP bursary awards or other BP-involved scholarships.

In 2010, 58 Oil Academy students received BPâ€™s bursary awards. Of these 30, who were first year students with the highest university admission scores, were presented with BP-branded lap top computers. The remaining 28 were second year students specifically selected on the basis of the results of BPâ€™s technical tests on mathematics, physics, logic and basic geology. These were granted an opportunity to improve their English language skills through BP-funded training which will add to their high-level technical knowledge.

As part of the bursary awards programme over the past years BP has also donated some 5,000 AZN worth books and scientific magazines to the library of the State Oil Academy.