NUMBER OF STUDENTS OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS LESS BY 27% THAN IN 1991

Noyan Tapan
Dec 6, 2007

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 6, NOYAN TAPAN. 85 state and 23 non-state vocational
educational institutions function in Armenia. 29 500 and 1800
students study in those institutions, respectively. As Noyan Tapan
correspondent was informed by the Department of Vocational Education
of the RA Ministry of Education and Science, as compared with 1991,
the number of vocational educational institutions increased by 20%,
and that of the students (40 600) decreased by 27.3%. At present the
share of vocational education makes only 4 percents in the country’s
education budget.

The new list of professions of vocational education has been approved
lately. All professions, the need of which the market has today,
in essence, are included in that list.

At present 4300 teachers work at the vocational educational
institutions.