Education

Many Armenians are worried over the new 12-year Armenian education system and raises a couple of issues: “What will they teach them for 12 years that they taught for 10 years?” “We’ll graduate from school at 18 and they’ll take us to the army, what about university?” “Why do we need two kinds of first …

Deputy head of the Armenian state automobile department Hayk Markaryan has warned parents of students in school to not give the car keys to schoolchildren. The school year has already started and despite the fact that students don’t have a license or experience, some parents are handing over the car keys to their cars. “These …

Presses have already touched upon the humiliating “trickery” of universities after August 24, when applicants had read their names on the lists and then had come to see that their names were excluded. This led to the protests of the students. The state admission committee has already discussed this issue. Based on the press release …

Another briefing took place at the Yerevan municipality on August 28, headed by first deputy mayor and educational system coordinator Kamo Areyan. The topic of the briefing was the food served in schools. It was about the food served in schools based on the law on non-trade state organizations and the government’s regulation for serving …

It is strange but August seems to be an month for studying. It is strange because usually students and pupils go on vacation during the summer. This period is very important for educational institutions and schools. This is when universities finish their entrance exams and schools register new pupils for first grade. As a result …

This year university admission exams in Armenia were known for the low exam scores, especially the general subjects. There are a few explanations for this. 1. Applicants hadn’t prepared well enough (I saw how the applicant couldn’t even answer basic questions about, for example, Russian language, Armenian language and literature). 2. The tests included topics …

Children at School No. 99 in Yerevan undergoing military drill as part of their education. Photographs by Gegham Vardanian. “Right turn! Left shoulder forward! Quick march!” shouts military training instructor Karo Ambardzumian, although his subordinates are not soldiers but 11- and 12-year-old children at a school in the Armenian capital Yerevan. Although military training is …

According to “Azatutyun” radio station, this year, there was a surprise in store for the applicants of the Russian-Slovenian and French universities, as well as the European Territorial Academy one day before the application deadline. Male applicants found out at the last moment that some of them would be recruited to the army if accepted. …

Today, in Armenian reality, there is a school where the deputy minister, the journalist, the political figure and even the cartoonist can interact, refrain from making offensive remarks, work and even sing, dance and become friends regardless of political orientation. Yerevan School for Lessons in Politics (YSLP)-this school has only been around for a year, …

“Karo Brutyan didn’t get accepted into P.H.D.,” this was the reply of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (NAS). As stated in the previous article, Karo Brutyan had applied for the “Law and Philosophy Institute” of the NAS. “Someone else with higher grades got accepted into the institute that Karo Brutyan had applied for. …