Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan today had a meeting with high school principals. The press service of Ministry of Education reported about this to “1in.am News and Analysis.”
“Despite all the problems we were able to ensure the transition to 12-year-old system; we had the first 12th grade this year. Although there still exist unsolved problems and the public perception of this is not definitely positive, but denying all rumors, I want to emphasize that the 12-year-old education proved its vitality,” mentioned Armen Ashotyan.
The Minister drew the directors’ attention to the education sector and stressed the importance of legal compliance. “We will deal very hard with those directors, who will have legal drawbacks in the result of observations made by the Ministry of Education and Science,” noted A. Ashotyan.
During the meeting Armen Ashotyan also referred to the problem of education of Syrian children and instructed the directors to ensure all the necessary conditions for them, mentioning that Syrian Armenian children can apply to any school.
“Your primary responsibility is to ensure all the necessary conditions for the Syrian children, to organize additional overtime trainings, to smooth the problems of linguistic difference. Each Syrian child is the child of our nation, and he should not suffer as a result of force majeure of military and political education,” added Armen Ashotyan.
