Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. On April 9, an event took place under the theme, ‘1000 engineers - Job fair’, and 21 Mongolian graduates of Japanese Kosen schools now have the opportunity to work as the profession they acquired.

As according to the soft loan agreement made between the Government of Mongolia and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the ‘Higher Engineering Education Development Project (HEED)’ has been implemented by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports since 2014. In the frameworks of the project, of which goal is to prepare skilled engineers and technology experts in Mongolia, a ceremony was held for the first 21 graduates that studied in Japan.

To prepare engineers and technology experts equipped with high knowledge and skills for Mongolia, improve competitiveness of engineering education, build the capacity of teachers, and improve the learning environment, about 1,000 Mongolian citizens are to receive engineering education in Japan.

The first graduates that studied to become electrical, IT and construction mechanical engineers in the Kosen programme in Japan have thus successfully finished their studies and come back to Mongolia in March.

The project implementing unit and the project consultant AsiaSeed non-profit organisation introduced the graduates to major companies from March 25 to April 02 and multiple companies and universities, such as ‘Mongolyn Alt’ (MAK), Gobi, APU, Tavan Bogd Group, MobiCom Corporation and Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST), have sent job offers.

Two graduates of the programme, B.Tsend-Ayush and E.Tuguldur, were presented invitations to work at the first and largest mobile phone operator, MobiCom Corporation, by CEO Tatsuya Hamada. “I am very grateful to have received a job offer to work as a database network engineer at MobiCom Corporation. I will do my best to use the knowledge and skills I have acquired in Japan, along with the advice and instruction given by the skilled engineers in Mongolia,” said information and communication engineering graduate B.Tsend-Ayush.

As the students graduate from Japanese Kosen schools with associate degrees, MUST Director B.Ochirbat also awarded them with invitations to continue to study at the university, where they can acquire a bachelor’s degree after studying for a year.

On the condition that the students involved in the project consistently work in Mongolia for 5 years, the loan for their tuition fee is to be considered a scholarship. Henceforth, the event, in which the project implementing unit is advising the graduate students to use their acquired profession in the development of their home country, is to be organized annually.