Where will Turkmen students work at?
Abdulgamid’s original post in Russian 20.07.07, Translated by Merdjen
Topic of the previous Nurly’s post is hot and relevant as never before. The lack of experts in all fields of work - science, art, entertainment, business, industry, and agriculture -throws our country a century back to the epoch of colonialism, illiteracy and isolation.
Active work dynamic of the largest international oil and gas trusts and communication technologies companies will lead to the moment, when they will not anymore benefit from sending expat professionals to Turkmenistan. It is much more cost-effective to employ local human resources and national experts. If they actually exist…
Turkmenistan has overstretched its resources by pledging to extract more oil and gas when it does not have enough trained professionals to meet the task, say NBCentralAsia observers.
Russian diplomas have not been recognised in Turkmenistan since 2003 and Turkmen students have not taken part in any international exchanges since the late Nineties, as a result of an isolationist policy imposed by former president Sapurmarat Niazov, who died suddenly last December.
Two days after Turkmenistan agreed to recognise university diplomas from CIS countries on July 14, Russian universities began a recruiting campaign in Turkmenistan accepting applications from Turkmen students for oil and gas related courses.Turkmen students will now be able to study in some of Russia’s best universities for professional energy sector training, including the IM Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas.
Those currently working in Turkmenistan’s oil and gas sector are mostly old-school Soviet professionals or unqualified locals trained by the foreign companies that develop the fields they work on.
After all considerably large number of students (reasonably for Turkmenistan) has almost finished their degree or had already graduated from post-secondary schools abroad.
And then they are in complicated situation; surely getting a well-paid position that is relevant to their diploma right the way in the country they studied, would make nobody do back to Turkmenistan. However still uneasy job to employ recent alumni at very developed countries is even more significantly so in post-soviet region.
What will our student choose: by fair means or foul to catch on a foreign land after graduation and work hard for 10-12 hours at a difficult work not of their expertise or rather to risk and come back. Would they either return just to take a look: what if they are really needed? …
on July 23rd, 2007 at 9:38 am
I don’t know others but personally speaking I don’t want to work at army for two years to re-format my brain, after university degree.
on July 23rd, 2007 at 11:41 am
I hope GOD gives you all a little bit of patriatism and love for your country, for your people…
on July 23rd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
[quote=Begenc]
I hope GOD gives you all a little bit of patriatism and love for your country, for your people…
[/quote]
I am pretty sure that ALLAH gave me all you counted. But I can’t find a logical base to cotton collecting man who is properly educated and specialised person and who is in military service for two years. This is not patriotism, this is not love for country and this is not love for my people. This is complete stupidity and brain wasting.
on July 23rd, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Response to Parahat:
It is only 1.5 yeras if you are educated
PS: Normally i am not this contraversial :))
on July 24th, 2007 at 7:39 am
I’ve heard that army might become professional. It means that no more required army draft of every man of appropriate age, only those who want to specialize in it. I think it would be.
Parahat Mele, what if army would be professional, do you see your future possible plans different? Would army reform facilitate better development of our country?
Personally, i see this army draft as institutionalised gender discrimination of men. Even if it’s 1.5 yrs.
on July 30th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I totaly agree with what Parahet Mele said. I studied at LSE Economics and Masters in Petrolium and engineering at Imperial College in London. After my studies i did research in Turkmenistan and didnt have any luck but i am still hoping one day it will open its arms to its own people and tell them come and do your best to your own country and make the economy stable.It might take good another 10-15 years in the meantime mentality of turkmen people have to change too. Lets work together and do our best for our future.
on August 2nd, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Thanks, Murat for sharing your experience with us!
that’s true if only our country would let us use our full potentional to do the best we can… yeah it takes time… and it will take even more or won’t move further if no steps towards that will be undertaken