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NO GRADUATES FROM ARMENIAN SCHOOLS IN 2011
Tert
Nov 10 2009
Armenia
After signing on to the Bologna Process, serious changes have taken
place in Armenia's education system.
Armenia has moved on to a 12-month education system, while those
students who enrolled prior to this new system being implemented will
receive their education over a period of 11 months.
The outcome of all of these changes is that in 2011, there won't be
any graduating students in Armenia. Notably, this issue has become
a hot topic for discussion among parents.
During today's press conference, Minister of Education and Science
Armen Ashotyan, commenting on this news, noted that "no school,
neither private nor state, will have graduates in 2011."
According to the International Association of Universities (and as
posted on UNESCO's site), "The Bologna Process is currently the most
important initiative for the reform of higher education in Europe.
Above all, it seeks to provide for an area of enhanced mobility for
students and teachers in an atmosphere of increased transparency and
mutual recognition of qualifications among universities.
"Participants in the Bologna Process seek to forge this transparency
through a common framework based on three distinct levels of study:
Bachelor, Masters, and Doctoral. In this way it aims to construct
standard paths towards the achievement of each of these levels so that
national diplomas obtained at each stage of academic progression will
translate directly into a fellow participating country's structure
of higher education programs."
Tert
Nov 10 2009
Armenia
After signing on to the Bologna Process, serious changes have taken
place in Armenia's education system.
Armenia has moved on to a 12-month education system, while those
students who enrolled prior to this new system being implemented will
receive their education over a period of 11 months.
The outcome of all of these changes is that in 2011, there won't be
any graduating students in Armenia. Notably, this issue has become
a hot topic for discussion among parents.
During today's press conference, Minister of Education and Science
Armen Ashotyan, commenting on this news, noted that "no school,
neither private nor state, will have graduates in 2011."
According to the International Association of Universities (and as
posted on UNESCO's site), "The Bologna Process is currently the most
important initiative for the reform of higher education in Europe.
Above all, it seeks to provide for an area of enhanced mobility for
students and teachers in an atmosphere of increased transparency and
mutual recognition of qualifications among universities.
"Participants in the Bologna Process seek to forge this transparency
through a common framework based on three distinct levels of study:
Bachelor, Masters, and Doctoral. In this way it aims to construct
standard paths towards the achievement of each of these levels so that
national diplomas obtained at each stage of academic progression will
translate directly into a fellow participating country's structure
of higher education programs."