THE GOAL IS QUALITY AND EFFECTIVENESS
Svetlana Khachatryan.
Azat Artsakh Nagorno Karabakh Republic [NKR]
05 Sept 05
The first bell of the new academic year rang in the schools of the
republic on September 1st. 234 secondary schools, 8 colleges and
universities and 5 specialized secondary schools opened their doors
for 28 thousand pupils and students. This academic year will mark a
new approach to secondary education. The summer discussions held by
the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, which continued in the
regional meetings of teachers in August and were summed up in the
republic consultation of school directors and education officers,
came to the conclusion that today’s secondary school does not fulfill
its role. It has the least effectiveness and the lowest quality in
the last 50 years. The problem is raised on a governmental level
as well. At the republic consultation the speaker of the National
Assembly of NKR Ashot Ghulyan gave his observations about education,
based on his impressions from the work in his former position and
regarding the sphere of education as a strategic issue.
The NKR minister of defence, Lieutenant General Seyran Ohanyan
emphasized the need for close relationships between school and army,
for both work to bring up healthy and well-educated generations. No
doubt having an education system which meets the requirements of the
time depends on the financial means provided for it. In the last ten
years 45 schools were built and 47 were reconstructed in Artsakh. 50
schools have new furniture. By the state budget 2005 (for the first
time in the period of independence) 595 million drams was provided
for construction and 100 million drams for repair of schools, which
is done successfully. It is planned to finish the construction of
schools in 2009 and to increase the salary of teachers up to 100
thousand drams by 2010. The state budget for the next year provides
for increasing the salary of teachers up to 58 thousand 800 drams,
and the budget of education will be 4 billion drams. The Minister of
Education, Culture and Sport Kamo Atayan thinks that this state of
education makes us take a ret!
rospective look of the education we used to have, make a profound
analysis, study the international experience and work out a clear
strategy. It is necessary to work out an educational doctrine for the
upcoming 25-30 years. Because the NKR law on development of education
expires this year, it is possible to make the development programmes
for education for the period between 2005 and 2005 on the basis of
the primary principles of the education doctrine. A clear strategy
of education for each year will be derived from it. This approach
supposes hard effort. First of all, the entire system of education
should be involved in this. Besides, the discussion of this serious
long-term education programme must be undertaken by the first meeting
of the teachers of Artsakh. There is no way back. Further development
of our young country depends on the effective work of the education
system, the guarantor of which is the teacher. This opinion is shared
by everyone.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress