RA EDUCATION MINISTER STATES ENTRANCE EXAMS TO
ARMENIA’S UNIVERSITIES TO BE FAIR AND TRANSPARENT
AZG Armenian Daily #135, 20/07/2006
Levon Mkrtchian, newly appointed RA Education and Science Minister,
stated that the entrance exams to the Armenian universities will be
fair and transparent. He said that the entrance exams will launch on
July 20 and added that it is planned to open a special site that will
fully cover the process of the exams. This year, the exam marks will
not be rounded off. Minister stated that at present the given system
of evaluation is the most convenient one. As for the tuition fees,
Mkrtchian said that thanks to the contract system the university
students will be able to pay a fixed sum of money that will not
change in the course of the education process. He added that at
present not a single local university has increased the tuition fee
as compared with the last year. The most expensive university is
still the Yerevan State Medical University, while the faculties of
International Relations and the Law Departments are the leading ones.
According to Mkrtchian, 12 413 entrants applied to the local
universities. This indicator surpassed that of the last year by 500
entrants. Minister stated that this year the entrants’ interest to
the Yerevan State Economic University has grown, as 1633 people
applied to that. Besides, as compared with 2005, the number of
entrants who applied to the faculties of the English Language at
various universities has also grown. The Yerevan State University
has 671 free of charge vacancies, while the Yerevan State Medical
University has only 148. In total, there are 4 342 free of charge and
5 598 paid vacancies opened at the Armenian universities. Mkrtchian
stated that just like in the previous years the faculties of Physics,
Biology and Chemistry are not popular.
By Sousana Margarian