Education

A lot of people think that getting a PHD is a good chance to get rid of serving the army. Most part of the students who take postgraduate studies are male. The female students, who modestly give up their places to guys, prefer to study PHD by correspondence. By doing that they help their male …

As you enter the #10 special school named after Petros Duryan, you immediately feel that the school really is special. First, let’s not forget to mention that the school is located in the well known “Korean Canyon”, which is officially known as the Roundabout tunnel of the Arabkir community. This means that the school, along …

During a briefing held yesterday, head of the education department of the municipality Onik Vartanyan said that the state had provided 380 million drams in 2004 for the remodeling and construction of the schools of the municipality. This year, the budget provided 1.5 million drams and another 500 million was given within the framework of …

According to non-official sources, Yerevan State University already has its candidates for the position of rector. The competition is between Dean of the same university’s Economics faculty Hayk Sargsyan and Dean of the Jurisprudence faculty Gagik Ghazinyan.

In case the “metallic curtains” made limitations during the Soviet Union times, now only Embassies can make some limitations. There have been a lot of cases when young people got admitted into universities abroad but couldn’t go there (we wrote about this in one of our previous publications). “We have never had this kind of …

Instead of the 20 billion drams provided for the teachers’ salaries, 23 billion drams will be provided to the teachers in the year of 2006. According to the Minister of Education and Sciences Sergo Yeritsyan, “Today, there are 46,000 teachers in Armenia, however, optimization will continue due to the fact that there are less students …

Today, there are 15 special schools in Armenia where orphans live and study in those schools. When you look at the faces of those children, you immediately understand that we are too far from considering ourselves a civilized country. Thousands of children today suffer knowing that their birth has caused a problem for their parents. …

Studying abroad has become something like lottery for Armenians. And only the corresponding consul knows who has won. A lot of people will agree with us, that the reason that youth today studies abroad is that the education system is not in good condition these days.  But only the will and knowledge are not enough …

The talked about knowledge evaluation and testing center has already been founded and professor of the Yerevan State University’s Mechanics Faculty Vanya Barseghyan has been elected as director. During the upcoming months there will also be staff members. “The second project of Armenia’s educational system has started to be implemented thanks to the loan provided …

The concept of a school doctor has not been grasped for the past ten years. The only ones that remain are the school nurses who try to cure the children and adolescents the best they can in school. After the optimization of doctors, the government made a decision that there have to be doctors visiting …