Education Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Article 3. Key Principles of the National Policy on Education

 

The key principles of the national policy on education are as follows:

3.0.1. Humanism – Recognizing as a priority the national and universal values, the unrestrained development of the individual, human rights and liberties, health and security, virtues of care, respect, and tolerance for the environment and the people.

3.0.2. Democracy – Cultivating the learners in the spirit of free thinking, expansion of the power and academic independence to organize and administer education under state-social basis, increasing the autonomy of educational institutions.

3.0.3. Equality – creating equal opportunities for all citizens to receive education and providing for the right to education for them.

3.0.4. National consciousness and secularism – establishment and development of a secular education system on the basis of protecting national and national and universal values, and ensuring their dialectic harmony.

3.0.6. Efficiency – the organization of education and the scientific words with the contemporary methods oriented towards development, effectiveness, and which are based on outcomes.

3.0.7. Continuity, unity, and perpetuity – under the existing educational standards, curricula, and syllabi, the opportunity to receive education at several levels, ensuring a close mutual dialectic link among various levels of education, and its consistent lifelong continuity.

3.0.8. Legacy – the consistent conveyance of knowledge and experience obtained in the field of education onto the next generation (cycle).

3.0.9. Liberalization – extending the openness of the education area and educational activity;

3.0.10. Integration – the development of national education through its efficient integration to the global education system, adaptation, and combination.