ALL YEREVAN’S EDUCATION AND PRE-EDUCATION SCHOOLS TO BE PROVIDED WITH BOILER-HOUSES UNTIL 2010

Noyan Tapan
Jul 30, 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. All Yerevan’s education and
pre-education institutions will be provided with boiler-houses until
2010. Onik Vatian, the Head of the Education Department of Yerevan
Mayor’s Office, reported at the July 30 press conference. According
to him, 99 Yerevan schools will have boiler-houses by the end of the
year. In addition, 44 comprehensive schools within the jurisdiction
of the Mayor’s Office will be repaired with the funds of the state
budget. 3.7bn drams (nearly 10.8m USD) will be allocated for this
purpose.

Touching upon the results of the 2006-2007 schoolyear, O. Vatian said
that average progress in nearly 200 schools in the above mentioned
period made 97.8%, which exceeds the previous schoolyear’s index by
1.9%. The number of pupils getting good and excellent marks made 52.2%
in the 2006-2007 schoolyear. And 100 out of nearly 122 thousand pupils
were not promoted to the next form. They will take re-examination
between August 20 to 30.

O. Vatian also said that teachers’ retraining courses are organized
by the Education Department of the Mayor’s Office: 3800 teachers have
already had retraining. Another 2700 teachers are being retrained at 8
school-centers at present, in particular, specialists of the subjects,
whose subject curricula will be put into operation from September 1.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress