CONFERENCE ON EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION BENCHMARKS TO KICK OFF IN TSAKHKADZOR ON SEP 8

ARKA
September 5, 2008

YEREVAN, September 5. /ARKA/. An international conference on the
Framework of Qualifications for the European Higher Education within
the Bologna Declaration (1999) will kick off in Tsakhkadzor resort
on September 8.

The organizer of the workshop is the RA Ministry of Education and
Science.

Delegations from Denmark, Italy, England, Moldova and other CE
member-states will participate in the conference.

Armenia joined the Bologna declaration in 2005, making its first
step towards developing an over-arching qualifications framework for
the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). As a signatory country,
Armenia is to reform its own higher education system by 2010.

On November 2, 2006, the RA Government adopted the schedule of reforms
within the Bologna Convention.