From March 9 to 13, the Advisory Group of the NATO Defense Education Enhancement Programme (the Programme was created to assist the needs in Armenia’s sector of military education) was on a regular visit to Armenia, reports the news service of the Ministry of Defense.
The aim of the visit was to sum up the cooperation programs of the year 2019 and agree upon the paths for future cooperation along with the personnel of the Ministry of Defense and the Military Education Department and military educational institutions.
During the meeting hosted by the Ministry of Defense, the Armenian party presented the reforms made in military education and within military educational institutions.
The Advisory Group paid visits to military educational institutions where it had meetings with the administration and the organizers of education. The Advisory Group was provided with briefings regarding the revision of the educational institutions’ curricula, training of the professors, the new teaching methodology and certain projects being implemented with the support of the advisory group.
The members of the Advisory Group were also received by Deputy Minister of Defense Gabriel Balayan. During the meeting, they summed up the results of the visit, discussed issues on the agenda of reforms in the military education sector and earmarked the paths for future cooperation.