Thirty Mozambican scholarship holders have left for Petronas Technological University, in Malaysia, where, over the next five years they will attend degree courses in the areas of gas and mining.

The training of these students, over a period of five years, will cost the government about 1740 thousand dollars, says a source from the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, (MIREME) quoted by Notícias.

According to the source, the students going to Malaysia will be trained in areas such as mining geology engineering, petroleum, chemistry, and electronics, while another ten, who will go to Germany, are expected to leave next September for the Technical University of Freiberg.

It is known that the thirty students were chosen from a total of 1235 candidates throughout the country and come from the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Tete, Niassa, Zambézia, Manica, Inhambane, Gaza and Maputo.

According to the source of MIREME, the displacement of the scholarship holders for training abroad in the areas of gas, oil and mining, is part of the strategy for training national staff for the sector of mineral resources and energy approved in 2010 and which provides for the annual sending of students to universities recognized worldwide.