Ara Avetisyan: Special Education In Armenia Meets Labor Market Deman

ARA AVETISYAN: SPECIAL EDUCATION IN ARMENIA MEETS LABOR MARKET DEMANDS

PanARMENIAN.Net
12.10.2009 16:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Within the frames of EU-Armenia program, Armenia is
implementing a program on the development of specialized preliminary
and secondary-vocational education. Program should be implemented step
by step within 3 years, with a total budget comprising 15 million
Euros," Deputy Minister of Education Ara Avetisyan told today a
news conference.

Program implementation shall be supervised by a newly established
interagency commission which consists of Armenia’s business union
and trade union representatives.

Methodology and educational system shall be elaborated by a national
centre for the development of specialized education and training.

Within program frameworks , there are 12 secondary-vocational
educational institutions operating in Armenia, with 2 of them situated
in Yerevan and 2 others – in RA regions. Such educational institutions
can provide training on over 140 specializations, with 54 of them
matching new standards.

"The number of applicants is this year twice more in comparison
with last year. That means specialized education meets labor market
demands," Ara Avetisyan noted.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS