TRILATERAL AGREEMENT IN SPHERE OF SPECIALIZED SECONDARY EDUCATION SIGNED IN ARMENIA
Arka News Agency, Armenia
Feb 26 2007
YEREVAN, February 26. /ARKA/. A trilateral Agreement in the sphere
of specialized secondary education was signed in Armenia by the RA
Ministry of Education and Science, UNDP and the Centre of educational
programs supported by the World Bank.
Levon Lazarian, the RA Minister of Education and Science, said that
within the Agreement, Armenia will be supported in the issues of
integrating specialized secondary education and high school.
Armenia’s long-term and short-term economic stability can appear
under threat without realizing certain reformation stages as well as
experienced and professional potential.
"Under the EU cooperation, we put the stress on the reforms in
the sphere of specialized secondary education, and having a close
cooperation with the UNDP, we elaborate serious long-term programs
in this direction," he said.
In her turn, UN Permanent Coordinator in Armenia Consuelo Vidal
expressed confidence that the strengthening of the human potential by
means of education has an essential importance meaning for Armenia’s
further development.
Kori Udovicki, UN Deputy Secretary-General, Director of UNDP’s Regional
Bureau for Europe and CIS, said that the country’s harmonic and stable
development is not possible without the development and formation of
the education.
She said that they welcome the methods and policy of the RA Government
concerning the long-term programs and investments into the sphere of
education, which will serve as basis for a prosperous future of the
coming generations.
Within the frames of this program, educational institutions will be
renewed, and the necessary equipment for implementing the educational
process has already been obtained and provided to the specialized
secondary institutions. Normative acts and education criteria will
also be elaborated. Quality criteria have been formed, curriculums
and textbooks meeting the modern requirements have been elaborated.