OREANDA-NEWS. On 06 March 2008 was announced, that by 2013 need for experts in power engineering will make more than one thousand, the chairman of the board of Holding Samruk Kanat Bozumbayev said.

"The energy producing companies, a part of the holding, for 2008 will need 214 power engineering experts and by 2012 - 2013 the number will increase up to 1038 people, including: for Balhash TES (for the 1st turn) - 640 experts, for Ekibastuz state district power station-2 -298," K. Bozumbayev informed on Tuesday at the government session in Astana.

 To solve the problem it is necessary in the next educational year to substantially increase the number of the state grants for training in high schools of Kazakhstan on electro power specialties, and also - on Bolashak program abroad, first of all, in the Russian Federation, the Chinese National Republic, Germany and France.