T.TOROSIAN: PAWNING FOR GETTING OFF WITH CALL UP IS AN UNSUCCESSFUL SOLUTION

Noyan Tapan
Aug 10 2006

YEREVAN, AUGUST 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Tigran Torosian, the RA National
Assembly Speaker, believes that the pawn for getting off with the
call up for studying abroad is an unsuccessful solution. Responding
a reader’s question in the "Azg" daily internet site, he said that
this system brings to a fact that children from poor families lose
the possibility of getting high-quality education, even if the
foreign university covers all expenses. The one asking the question
criticized that decision of the RA Government, according to which,
boys going abroad to study, are obliged to pay pawn equivalent to 10-15
thousand dollars to the state treasure house for being transferred
to the reserve.

"Though the goal is understandable: to make students interested
in returning Armenia. And a student, got the privilege, who is
transferred to the reserve, must be under an obligation towards
the Fatherland. But this student must be returned Armenia owing
to attention and care," the NA Speaker said. Tigran Torosian also
said that the Ministry of Education and Science must keep an eye on
the process and progress of education of students studying abroad,
and after they return Armenia, it must propose a job of at least 1-2
years at a state structure. "Still in 1999 I gave this idea to the
Minister of Education of that time, who considered it very attractive,
but no step has been taken by now.

Probably, it needs to be fixed by a law," the NA Speaker said in
his answer.