President Serzh Sargsyan discusses education reforms with governing council of Academy of sciences

YEREVAN, April 26, /ARKA/. President Serzh Sargsyan received today members of the Governing Council of the National Academy of Sciences and Heads of scientific and research institutes of the Academy, his press office reported.

It said President Sargsyan Serzh Sargsyan highlighted three main avenues for developing education and science in our country. “The first avenue we should take is to reorganize the existing educational and scientific institutions and use them more efficiently, i.e. to carry on with the process of reformation. The second avenue is the creation of a new generation of the educational and scientific institutions, like the one created in Tavush – a modern boarding school, where teaching is conducted in foreign languages, with the application of the newest teaching methodologies.

The third avenue is to provide our students and young scientists with the opportunity to study in the best educational and scientific establishments abroad,” he was quoted as saying.

President Sargsyan informed that the funds of the Luys Foundation, which provides financial support for the Armenian students’ to study at the world’s best establishments, would be doubled so that a greater number of the Armenian students could study abroad. Serzh Sargsyan stressed also the necessity of creating opportunities for the young scientists to get training abroad, noting that corresponding steps would be taken on that direction as well.

“I know that there is a problem of housing for the young scientists, and to solve the problem we are ready to make serious investments. However, support will be provided only to those young scientists, who are going to seriously work in science, but not to those who after receiving master’s degree spend couple of months in a scientific institution and then leave to do something else,” President Sargsyan said. -0-