Levon Barseghyan, head of the journalists’ club Asparez, stated during an event that took place in Golden Tulip Hotel today that the educational system in our country continued to be used by the pro-government candidates and parties as an important tool. In his words, schools and university collectives, school and [...]
Matthias Fritz has worked in Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov for 4 years, by the way, he has chaired the Department of German Language for two of those years. Now, Mr. Fritz has returned to his motherland Germany, but he dearly remembers the years of work in Armenia. [...]
One of active politicians on Facebook is Minister of Education and Science, Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) member Armen Ashotyan who is much criticized for that. The minister posts educational and cultural news on his Facebook wall,posts links to publications in the press, comments on political developments through songs of [...]
www.aravot.am has already written about the educational and scientific component of parties’ pre-election programs. All forces promise to increase education financing, to provide student credits, to increase PhD bonuses, add them to the pensions etc., but the ways to reach those are not always mentioned. We inquired from Armen Ashotyan, [...]
The skirmish between Suren Zolyan and Armen Ashotyan is the most burning subject of last month. www.aravot.am inquired from the Minister of Education and Science whether the Brusov Story didn’t harm the reputation of Minister of Education and Science, politician Armen Ashotyan. “Such an opinion is publicly expressed by very [...]
www.aravot.am asked Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan to comment on the speeches and ideas expressed on university autonomy largely-spoken of recently. “The subject has been talked about much recently and unfortunately, has been talked about unprofessionally and rather in the form of rhetoric and public speeches. We almost [...]
During a conversation with www.aravot.am, Kachik Gevorgyan, the president of the Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support (ARMACAD) and a member of the initiative We Demand to Finance Science More, stated, “There has been no increase in financing the field of science for the past ten years. The ruling [...]
The majority of the political parties participating in the parliamentary election have already presented their political programs. As every year, those programs mention, however little, solutions to the problems existing in the field of science. Various political forces sometimes take a rather opposition stance on the lack of financing and [...]
Henry Renault, the French Ambassador to Armenia, talking about francophone events during a press conference at the embassy, mentioned also propaganda of the French language through the embassy and by support of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Armenia – the propaganda will be also in [...]
“There are a lot of problems in the field of science in Armenia. 5 000 out of 27 000 scientific workers have left,” PhD in math and physics, Professor Artur Ishkhanyan, a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, said during a meeting with [...]
Today Aravot.am inquired from Vahan Hovhannisyan, the leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) whether his children were like him, whether they were as well-read as he was. Vahan Hovhannisyan assured that they were totally like him. Vahan Hovhannisyan’s daughter Anna studied at the University of Economics. As you know, [...]
By the order of the Republic of Armenia Cabinet Chief of Staff, the CKT director’s duties were turned over to Professor Arsen Baghdasaryan, the deputy director of CKT and a PhD in physics and math on February 2 and already former CKT director Gurgen Khachatryan was dismissed from the office [...]
Today the closing ceremony of the Armenian-Georgian Winter School for Students camp took place in Tsaghkadzor. On January 27, around 80 Armenian and Georgian students, as well as PhD candidates and young scholars, participated in the winter school opened in the Tsaghkadzor Youth Center of the Youth Foundation of Armenia. [...]
Hans-Jochen Schmidt, the Ambassador of the Federative Republic of Germany to Armenia, has expressed surprise during an interview with Aravot.am recently that the Luys Foundation has not provided any scholarship to the Armenian youth studying in any German college so far. “German colleges are of high level and would like [...]
“The whole nation is Monte Melkonyan Club…” responded Galust Sahakyan, the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) deputy chairman, during a conversation with Aravot.am, when we asked what he thought about Putin Club intended to be opened on February 2 and whether he didn’t think that they’d better open Monte Melkonyan [...]
Armen Ashotyan, the Minister of Education and Culture, said during an interview the other day that he had given strict political instructions to the college rectors – they must strictly follow the Parties, Education and Public Education Law in their educational institutions. We know, however, from the previous experience that [...]
Armen Ashotyan, the Minister of Education and Culture, said during a press conference today that he had given “terrifying” orders to college rectors at the threshold of the election. “I gave a strict political order. To strictly follow the enforcement of parties, education and public education laws in their educational [...]
Armen Ashotyan, the Minister of Education and Science, visited all state colleges in Gyumri today and had a very interesting conversation with students. Entering the Gyumri affiliate of the University of Economics of the Republic of Armenia and seeing the improved conditions of the college, Armen Ashotyan said, “I see [...]
According to France-Presse, Mario Monti, the Prime Minister of Italy, considering the rising external debt of the country (€1.9 trillion) that is one of the biggest in the Eurozone at the moment, made a promise to work without wage. In response to a question of “Aravot” what percentage of the [...]
“For the sake of education and science” NGO has conducted “The education budget cracks in the context of efficiency and transparency” survey, as a result of which a set of drawbacks were revealed. According to the survey, 765 million AMD was provided for publishing text-books every year by the Ministry [...]
