Armenia Adopts 12-Year Secondary Education

ARMENIA ADOPTS 12-YEAR SECONDARY EDUCATION

Lragir.am
11 May 06

Since September 2006 Armenian schools will adopt 12-year secondary
education. The transition will be finally over in 2009, and in 2009
a three-grade secondary education will be declared. On May 11 the
government of Armenia approved provisions in the law on education on
transition to a 12-year school education. Under these provisions,
children will go to school at the age of six instead of the former
6.5. But in September 2006 both 6 and 6.5-year-old children will be
admitted. There will be two first grades, says Deputy Minister of
Education Norayr Ghukasyan. The six-year-old children will study for
12 years and the 6.5 year-old-children will study for 11 years. Since
2007 children will go to school at the age of 6. This transition
implies change of textbooks and syllabuses. The teaching staffs will
be retrained. Elementary school will include 1-4 grades instead of
the former 1-3, 5-9 grades will be considered middle school, 10-12
grades will be senior school.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS