The Government meeting yesterday asked concerned
Ministers, the Mayor of Ulaanbaatar, and governors of the aimags involved to go
ahead with previously approved plans to develop new university campuses. Soon
after Prime Minister S. Batbold assumed office, it was decided that a campus of
the Mongolian University of Science and Technology will be moved to Shivert on
the southeast of the Nalaikh district. Private higher education institutes will
also be granted land if they can enroll enough students.

A campus of Dornod University, a planned new institute
for studies in geology and mining, will be built in Erdenet, with support from
the Erdenet Mining Corporation and the private sector. Another university for
the technical sciences will be built in Darkhan-Uul province.

Work on the new campuses will go on in stages and will be completed by 2021.