SUMMING UP THE RESULTS

Azat Artsakh – Nagorno Karabakh Republic [NKR]
07 July 05

The months of May and June are a period of examinations at Artsakh
State University. This academic year the university had 401 alumni,
117 in full-time courses and 248 in extension courses. The number of
alumni in each department is: humanities 148, philology 52, economic
law 55, engineering 19, physics and mathematics 24, biochemistry 83
and agriculture 20. The chairmen of the state examination commissions
stated that the level of the graduate courses in ASU is very high. 7
out of 15 graduates majoring in English language and 6 out of 14
graduates majoring in law have A-grade diplomas. The vice rector of
the university Stepan Dadayan mentioned that the level of the students
of extension courses is not high, which is, according to him, easy to
explain. The head of the chair of literature and journalism of ASU
Socrat Khanian shares this opinion. In fact, we cannot but criticize
the extension courses because studies in this department have their
peculiarities. The number of hours in extension courses is 1/3 of the
academic hours in full-time courses. Besides, the village libraries
were destroyed during the war, there are no books for students, said
S. Khanian. The department of philology provides graduate courses for
four years now. The excellent undergraduate students are recommended
by the state examination commission to proceed with masters
courses. This year 4 students did an MA. The chairmen of the state
examination commissions, mainly professors of the state universities
of Armenia, highly evaluated the level of the exams and the knowledge
of the students.

LAURA GRIGORIAN.
07-07-2005