NOT THE MOST CORRUPTED, BUT EVIDENCING SUCH CASES
Aysor, Armenia
Aug 26 2009
"We are not the most corrupted but there are such cases. That’s why
the Higher Education Institutions since 2006 have been practicing
written examinations, and this year we are having automated test
exams without participation of lecturers, hence hoping to exclude
the corruption phenomenon",- Yuri Suvaryan, the rector of the Yerevan
State Economic University, declared about this at the press conference.
He informed that the system of automated knowledge test check was
practiced last year. As to Yuri Suvaryan, the number of students
increase year after year, in 2006 there were 1600 applicants,
in 2007-1800, in 2008-2000 and in 2009-2390 applicants. This year
entered 475 students more than expected.
In Yerevan State Economic University three new professions and a
number of specializations were introduced: anti-crisis management,
duty and tax budget rights, economic journalism and etc.
Yuri Suvaryan informed that the credit system is practiced for
bachelors’ degree, and for the system to be effective, each year
course guides are distributed to students, where the principles of
the credit system learning are described.
On answering the questions of Aysor.am, Yuri Suvaryan said that
there was no fee increase during the past 4 years and no increase
is expected in future, as there is the economic crisis and people
live under such conditions. "Though the education becomes expensive,
we will not have any fee increase, it will be immoral", he said.
The rector mentioned that they are in the midst concerning the fees,
as there are other institutions having higher fees: Yerevan State
University, Slavonic University, French University and etc.
Yuri Suvaryan thinks that both state and private universities are
rivals for the Economic University. "We also compete with western
higher education institutions, as some young people want to study
abroad and on coming back they occupy the labor market. And our
student must compete with them".
According to the data provided by the RA Ministry of Education and
Science, there are 17 government and 25 non-government higher education
institutions. The fees are between 250 -800 thousand drams annually,
and the average fee in the Economic University is 400thousand drams.