INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ASSIST TO DEVELOPMENT OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
SYSTEM OF ARMENIA

YEREVAN, APRIL 5, NOYAN TAPAN. International TACIS and German Technical
Cooperation (GTZ) organizations, acting in Armenia greatly assist
improvement of educational processes in the vocational education
system. As Samvel Pipoyan, the Chief of the Vocational Education
Department of the RA Ministry of Education and Science mentioned in
his interview to the Noyan Tapan correspondent, it is already the 5th
year that GTZ has implemented the program “Interregional Cooperation
in Vocational Education Sphere”. Re-training of administrative staff
was envasiged at the first stage of the program, and re-training
of lecturers in the second one. According to S.Pipoyan, in Armenia
the teachers’ staff of that system has not passed re-training
for already 15 years. TACIS implements three-years, 3 mln euros
project of “Assistance to Development of Vocational Education
System of Armenia”. It has three components: study and analysis
of job market, re-training of lecturers, technical support and
rearmament of material-technical basis. Ijevan State and Vanadzor
Technologic State Colleges, Yerevan Humanitar Technical and Yerevan
State Agricultural Colleges were chosen for the pilot implementation
of the program. It was mentioned that another educational program is
being implemented along with the Government of Greece. The Government
of Greece allocated 200 thousand euros for the fisrt stage of the
program. Preference was given to Yeghegnadzor State College, where
a new subject, “Wine-making” will be studied. A small factory and a
laboratory are envisaged to be given to the college.