Entrance exams will be eliminated in a few years

01-09-2007 11:22:54 – KarabakhOpen

This year 62 students from Artsakh entered the state universities of
Armenia, although the Armenian government had provided 60 scholarships
for Artsakh. `The Armenian ministry of education met our request and
provided 2 more scholarships for the region of Kashatagh. Another 15
have entered the universities,’ said the NKR minister of education,
culture and sport Kamo Atayan in an interview with Karabakh-Open.com.
The minister voiced concern regarding the small number of students at
the departments of physics, mathematics, radiophysics, geography,
agriculture and architecture at Artsakh State University. `If we hold
the exams without differentiated liberalization, these departments will
remain empty. We even had to admit 18 students by only an interview,’
the minister said. On the whole, Artsakh State has 766 students, 220
got scholarships, the government pays the tuition fee of 46 children of
killed azatamartiks.
This year the first integrated state exams in Armenian were held in
Karabakh. Kamo Atayan says next year the exam in mathematics and
English will be launched. `We may also hold integrated exams in other
foreign languages and natural sciences. The students will learn about
changes in the upcoming 1 or 2 months,’ Kamo Atayan said.
In answer to the question if an applicant can go to universities if he
or she had low marks at school, the minister said it is possible. `I
think in a couple of years the entrance exams will not be practiced at
all, and the students will take all the exams at school, but next year
the centralized system of entrance will remain,’ the minister of
education said.