UP TO NOW 233 DISPORAN-ARMENIAN ENTRANTS HAVE SUBMITTED APPLICATIONS FOR STUDYING IN STATE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
Aug 10 2007
YEREVAN, AUGUST 10, NOYAN TAPAN. 233 Diasporan-Armenian entrants have
submitted applications for studying in the state Higher Educational
Institutions of Armenia by August 10. These entrants are mainly from
Georgia, Russia, as well as from the United States of America, Iran,
Belarus, Turkey, and Lebanon. This information was provided to a
Noyan Tapan correspondent by Amalia Kocharian, a chief specialist of
the Sub-Division on the Relations with the Diaspora of the Department
of the Diaspora and International Cooperation of the RA Ministry of
Education and Science.
She mentioned that 70 free places have been allocated for
Diasporan-Armenian entrants by the decision of the RA government
this year. Those places will be allocated to Art Higher Educational
Institutions, as well as to those, having Armenological professions:
mainly, Yerevan Pedagogical University named after Kh. Abovian, Yerevan
State University, Yerevan State Academy of Arts, Yerevan Conservatory
named after Komitas, Yerevan Institute of Theater and Cinema.
Amalia Kocharian also declared that the applications of
Diasporan_Armenian entrants will be accepted until August 20,
and as for entrance examinations, they will be held at the end
of August. According to her, the entrants, who will not be able
to surpass the envisaged "positive threshold", can study in the
preparatory department of the given higher educational institution.