More Than 1300 Armenian Shool-Leavers Of Javakhk To Have GreatDiffic

[Jagharian Tania]

MORE THAN 1300 ARMENIAN SHOOL-LEAVERS OF JAVAKHK TO HAVE GREAT
DIFFICULTIES IN ISSUE OF ENTERING HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
BOTH OF GEORGIA AND ARMENIA

AKHALKALAK, JUNE 17, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The last bell rang
for school-leavers of all schools of Georgia on June 16. According
to the "A-Info" agency, in Javakhk populated with Armenians, 1313
pupils of the 11th grade, including 917 in the region of Akhalkalak,
396 in the region of Ninotsminda, left school this year. This year
school-leavers of schools in Georgia must take combined exams for
entering higher educational institutions. About 400 people from the
regions of Akhalkalak, Ninotsminda are going to participate in those
exams to enter Georgian higher educational institutions, particularly
the Akhalkalak branch of the State University of Tbilisi. But the
probability of their entering is very small as they do not know
Georgian at a level cooresponding to one of Georgian schools, and the
entrance exams will be held for all with the same standards. Hence,
one may suppose the most part of regular first year students of
the Akhalkalak branch of the State University of Tbilisi, which
(the branch) is said to have been created for those from Javakhk,
will be young people from other regions of Georgia. This year the
number of Armenians from Javakhk wanting to enter higher educational
institutions of Armenia imcomparably reduced because of even harder
social-economic situation of Javakhk.