DIPLOMAS OF ARMENIAN UNIVERSITIES TO BE VALID IN COUNTRIES JOINED TO BOLOGNA AGREEMENT

YEREVAN, JUNE 2. ARMINFO. Diplomas of Armenia’s universities will be
valid in all the countries joined to the Bologna agreement of the
All-European educational system and ratified the Lisbon Convention
on recognizing qualification of higher education, stated director
of Armenia’s National education institute Viktor Martirossyan in an
interview to ARMINFO.

He noted that these documents will allow students to get academic
bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accordance with All-European
educational system standards. Martirossyan noted that reforms in
Armenia’s educational system will be completed till 2010. In his
words, some Armenian universities have agreements on validity of their
diplomas in some foreign universities. Besides, Armenian diplomas
are valid in universities of all CIS countries.

According to Armenia’s National Statistic Service, in 2004-2005 in
Armenian state universities studied 2972 foreign students, of them
901 from Georgia, 666 from Iran, 536 from India, 343 from Syria,
305 from Russian and 36 from Turkey. 806 foreigners study in private
universities. To remind, Armenia ratified the Lisbon convention in
March, 2005 and joined to the Bologna agreement early in May.

At the same time, as IRNA informs, ambassador of Iran to Armenia
Alireza Khakikiyan does not advise Iranians to study in Armenia, In
his yesterday’s speech in Tebriz he informed that Iranian students
face with big social problems within the study period in Armenia.
Ambassador stated that the Iranians graduated from universities and
institutions of higher education in Armenia, face with low mark of
Armenian diplomas. “Iranian families should not send their children
for continuing study in Armenia”, Khakikiyan stated. -r-