NUMBER OF PUPILS ATTENDING ARMENIAN SCHOOLS ABROAD REDUCES DURING LAST YEARS

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 27 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 27, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. 2960 Armenian young
people from 32 countries of the world study today at institutions
of higher and middle professional education of Armenia, among them
2174 students study at state instutitons of higher education, 448
at non-state institutions of higher education and 338 at middle
professional istitutions. At the same time, 546 of them study free,
and 2414 study at paid system.

As Hrach Tadevosian, the Chief of the RA Education and Science
Ministry’s Department on Cooperation with Diaspora mentioned at
the June 23 press conference, the Ministry continues the process of
giving educational literature to Armenian educational institutions
of Diaspora. Armenian teaching schools of Georgia and Abkhazia were
mainly provided with the necessary number of t ext-books. According
to got claims, 7200 copies of text books and educational materials
were allocated to Armenian educational institutions abroad during
the previous months of 2006.

According to Hrach Tadevosian, the Ministry will continue to
implement one-month programs of re-training teachers of Armenology
subjects being taught in Armenian schools, colleges, kindergartens,
one-day and other types of educational institutions acting in foreign
countries. The program will be organized this year from July 17 to
August 15. Participant teachers will get certificates. 37 teachers of
7 countries still presented claims for participation in the re-training
courses of this year.

According to Hrach Tedevosian, 177 full Armenian schools function
abroad today, 19 of which are in Russia, 150 are in Georgia, including
112 ones in Javakhk, and 8 ones in Tbilisi. Besides, 400 one-day and
Sunday schools function as well. The Department Chief also mentioned
that the number of pupils attending Armenian schools abroad strictly
reduced during the last years, just by what reduction of the number
of those schools in some countries is povided.