ARMENIA’S EDUCATION SYSTEMS TURN TO EUROPEAN BENCHMARK

Aysor
Nov 6 2009
Armenia

Armenian educational system will experience large-scale changes in
the framework of EU-Armenia cooperation, secretary of the National
Security Council, Artur Baghdasaryan, announced today at session. Plan
for reforms will be developed in four-month term. These reforms
will provide turn of Armenian system of secondary vocational, higher
education and post-graduate education to European benchmark.

Stressing the importance of these reforms, Artur Baghdasaryan said
that education systems should go with European norms and mentioned
the notability of developing Armenia-EU inter-college relations and
cooperation as well as establishing the basis for retraining and
skill conversion and link between sectors of economy and education.

Reforming will also provide promotion of cooperation in science,
design of overall strategy, involvement of Armenian scientists and
organizations in EU programs, and growth of number of colleges with
a European orientation.