Municipality-run kindergartens in Yerevan overloaded
25.07.2012,
18:45
Yerevan kindergartens run by the city authorities are badly overloaded, Silva Achoyan, deputy chief of the municipality’s basic education division, said on Wednesday.
YEREVAN, July 25. /ARKA/. Yerevan kindergartens run by the city authorities are badly overloaded, Silva Achoyan, deputy chief of the municipality’s basic education division, said on Wednesday.
“A usual group in kindergartens should be made up of 25 to 30 children, while now it consists of up to 45,” she said.
Explaining the situation, she said that the problem is mainly due to the fact that the city’s kids attend the state-owned kindergartens for free, and monthly fee for children from provinces is 8,000 drams.
Achoyan said that the municipality keeps a close watch on the problem of shortage of kindergarten workers and solves this problem together with the administration of every kindergarten increasing the number of its personnel.
“Some kindergartens are in need of creation of new groups, and we advance this process,” she said.
The municipality official also said that about 8,000 children are lined for being enrolled in kindergartens.
“Applications are received every day, but kids are enrolled only in the first three days of every month,” she said.
Achoyan stressed that about 6% of kindergartens’ personnel and administration have already been retrained, and this process will continue.
There are 161 municipality-run kindergartens in Yerevan. More than 22,000 kids attend them. -0--
