PASS MARKS FOR ALMOST ALL SPECIALITIES ARE KEPT SAME OR MADE LOWER
Noyan Tapan
Aug 23 2006
YEREVAN, AUGUST 23, NOYAN TAPAN. Pass marks for almost all professions,
except "International Relations" and "Law," for studying at the free
education system of institutions of higher education were kept the
same or made lower this year, compared with the previous year. Levon
Mkrtchian, the RA Minister of Education and Science stated about it at
the August 22 press conference. He mentioned that entrants prefer today
the humanities. Whereas, in the Minister’s words, "natural sciences
are the future of Armenia." According to L.Mkrtchian’s observation,
the power engineering specialist’s profession is the most perspective
one in the republic, but, it is not much in demand at present. In his
words, "entrants’ parents, with high payments, send their children to
study "Economy," "Law," "International Relations," condemning them to
unemployment." "Our small country is not able to annually provide with
job more than 100 diplomates," the Minister mentioned. L.Mkrtchian
also mentioned that there are vacant places for some professions
in the paid system. According to the Minister’s words, they will be
allocated among professions having high competition to make the tension
calmer. The Minister also touched upon the entrants’ knowledge on the
"Mathematics" subject. In L.Mkrtchian’s words, tutors give entrants
"no knowledge on this or that subject but train them." He mentioned
that logical tasks from school text-books (even for the 2nd grade)
were also involved in the examination cards on the "Mathematics"
subject this year.
But, entrants solved difficult tasks "in the automatic way,
mechanically," but found it difficult to answer simple logical
questions.