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Today, Education Minister of Azerbaijan Emin Amrullayev held a briefing for journalists and some of his statements were met with outrage in society. Minister stated that he did not see the problem with the collection of money from parents in schools on a voluntary basis, and also called it an accident that the class teacher in one of the Baku schools introduced a student with long hair as a girl.

Azerbaijani Education Minister Emin Amrullayev held a briefing for journalists on December 21. He noted that by order of the President, preschool educational institutions (kindergartens) were transferred under the control of the Ministry of Education. Prior to this, kindergartens were subordinate to the executive authority of the area in which they were located.

According to Amrullayev, currently there are 1,825 kindergartens in the country, of which 1,692 are state-owned, and another 133 are private. 126,509 children are being educated in state preschool institutions.