BEGINNING OF CLASSES IN CAPITAL OF ARMENIA POSTPONED FOR TWO MORE WEEKS BECAUSE OF SEVERE WINTER
Yerevan, January 18. ArmInfo. The winter holidays of the schoolchildren
of the Armenian capital will be postponed till January 31, Lilit
Galstyan, the press-secretary of the Armenian Ministry of Education
and Science, told an ArmInfo correspondent.
According to her, the strong frost causes emergency conditions
in most of Yerevan’s schools. Besides, the research held by the
Yerevan Municipality shows that electric appliances fail to heat the
classrooms at a minus temperature. The pupils will have to fill the
gap of the missed lessons by attending additional classes till May
25. The classes of junior school will start from February 5, i.e. in
accordance with the schedule planned by the Ministry of Education.
In his turn, Onik Vatyan, the head of the Education Department of
the Yerevan Municipality, told ArmInfo that out of about 200 schools
in Yerevan only 50 are provided with local centralized heating,
and classes will start from January 22 in these schools. The
administrations of the rest of the schools are taking measures to
organize the education process from January 1. O.Atyan added that
by the end of the current year, 50 more schools may be provided with
centralized heating.