ARMENIAN PRESIDENT DISCUSSES EDUCATION REFORMATION WITH CHANCELLORS OF STATE UNIVERSITIES

ARKA
DECEMBER 17, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, December 17. /ARKA/. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan
discussed education reformation with chancellors of state universities
on Wednesday, the presidential press office reports.

The president said that such meetings would become regular.

"You’re your universities’ activities determine what specialists
we will have tomorrow and what country we will have in the future,"
he said.

The head of state stressed the necessity to apply new technologies
to education process and to modernize labs.

He said he expected new initiatives and vigorous efforts from heads
of universities to advance educational reforms.

The chancellors presented higher education problems to Sargsyan and
their plans to improve the system.

In particular, obstacles on the way to join Bologna process and
transition to a two-level education were discussed at the meeting.

Organizational and legal issues, private universities and Armenian
citizens’ study abroad were discussed as well.