MICROSOFT RA COOPERATES WITH ARMENIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Noyan Tapan
Dec 7, 2007

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 7, NOYAN TAPAN. Five Armenian higher education
institutions have concluded contracts with the Microsoft RA company,
a branch of the Microsoft Company in Armenia, concerning the creation
of Academies of Information Technologies." According to the information
provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by Grigor Barseghian, the Head
of the Microsoft RA company, courses of system administrators and
engineers of the Microsoft technologies are already being conducted
in the Academies of Information Technologies and the graduates of
these courses will receive respective diplomas with the Microsoft
Certified Systems Administrator and Microsoft Certified Systems
Engineer specializations. It was mentioned that the universities, which
have founded Academies of Information Technologies, have received
licences for using the software packages and multimedia resources
of the Microsoft. According to Grigor Barseghian, the lecturers,
who give lessons by the curricula of the Microsoft and the teachers
of the subject Informatics at schools will receive requalification
in those academies.

It was mentioned that three Armenian universities have subscribed
to the Software developer Network Academic Alliance program of the
Microsoft, which allows to make use of the licences of all the software
packages of the Microsoft. The latter allows to install those software
packages in the innumerable computers of the university in order to use
them for educational purposes. Lecturers also enjoy that right. In
addition to this, a limitless possibility for renovating those
packages through the websites of the Microsoft is also given. "Thus,
the university is given a possibility to automatize the educational
process in line with the international level," Grigor Barseghian
stressed.