VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS SHOULD BE RESTORED TO INCREASE EMPLOYMENT OF YOUTH, HRANUSH HAKOBIAN CONSIDERS

Noyan Tapan
Dec 12 2007

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. Dozens of higher educational
institutions functioning in Armenia have a great number of graduates
every year, but their main part fails to find a proper job. Arsen
Ghazarian, the Chairman of the Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen
(Employers) of Armenia, said at the December 12 press conference. He
said that today on the one hand, there are thousands of unemployed
young people and, on the other hand, great lack of specialists,
especially in the economic sphere. According to A. Ghazarian, the
UMB(E)A for the third year its trying to clarify the level of youth’s
employment, to confront the local and international experience,
and to find some solutions.

Hranush Hakobian, the Chairwoman of the RA NA Standing Committee for
Education, Culture and Youth Affairs, said that the issue should be
considered from two aspects: employment of youth in conditions of
market economy and in conditions of globalized world. In her words,
young people living in villages and those living in towns should be
also differentiated for opening the respective jobs for them. As the
deputy evaluated, the university-employer-job contact does not operate
today. "Industrial and vocational educational institutions should
be restored and fully-fledged specialists should pass retraining to
improve the situation," H. Hakobian said.