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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING SIGNED BETWEEN VIVACELL-MTS AND EIGHT ARMENIAN UNIVERSITIES
ArmInfo
2009-11-10 13:10:00
ArmInfo. Top-performing university students from Yerevan and the
regions will obtain career development opportunities with Armenia's
leading mobile operator VivaCell-MTS.
Thus,VivaCell-MTS, a subsidiary of Mobile TeleSystems OJSC, announces
that today at the Company's Headquarters a Memorandum of Understanding
was signed between the Company, represented by its General Manager
Ralph Yirikian and eight Yerevan- and regional-based universities
of Armenia, represented by their respective Presidents. These higher
education institutions are: the European Regional Educational Academy,
Mkhitar Gosh Armenian- Russian International University, State
Engineering University, Yerevan State University, Leadership School,
Abovyan University after Orbeli, Humanitarian University of Hrazdan
and Vanevan University of Martuni. Earlier this year, on August 7,
similar agreements were signed with six other universities of Armenia.
The majority of universities represent marzes, and this is in line
with the Company's mission to help universities of Armenian marzes
overcome the biggest challenge faced by every university of the
world: how to bridge the theoretical and the practical? How to
prepare tomorrow's leaders in industry, business, civil society,
science and education. Given the lack of up-to-date information
technologies in education and insufficient capacity for practical
skill development namely in marzes, VivaCell-MTS provides universities
with opportunities for various career growth such as: thesis-related
internships for graduate students, specialized lectures delivered in
faculties by VivaCell-MTS experts, joint scientific research projects,
Master's thesis research and curriculum development projects jointly
with faculties, as well as mentorship programs to graduate students
provided by Company specialists. Based on the joint agreements,
universities will in turn provide VivaCell-MTS with their high-
performing students. Selected students will have an opportunity to
obtain specialized internship in specific areas such as commercial law,
finance and accounting, marketing and sales, information technologies,
customer service, etc. In addition, students will receive a salary
to help them cover living expenses in Yerevan.
Thanks to this cooperation, in the long-term, this model of cooperation
with high educational institutions will help them develop their
professors' and instructors' skills and knowledge and develop curricula
embedded in and connected to the realities of professional practice.
Starting from May of this year, when hosted as a guest-speaker by some
of Armenia's universities, VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian
had a series of meetings with students, graduates and faculties in the
regions of Armenia and Yerevan, to share with them on the Company's
achievements and business management model. Excited about opportunity
for their students to start professional experience in VivaCell-MTS,
the educational institutions came up with the initiative to organize
professional internship of their students in the Company, in the
framework of their career-planning effort.
The nature of the cooperation between Armenian Universities
and VivaCell-MTS was summarized in the introductory statement
of VivaCell-MTS General Manager during the short press conference
following the signing ceremony: "Armenian high educational institutions
need support in terms of modern tools for quality contemporary
education. We as a company feel responsibility for filling this gap
between theory and practice. Doing so we achieve three goals: we get
young Armenian graduates educated and knowledgeable; we elevate spirit
of competition among young people who have to think about their future
today; and at the same time we prevent them from leaving the country
for a better future. The time will show how we have succeeded. However,
we believe that we are on the right path. Young Armenians deserve
having the same starting opportunities as the young people in other
countries."
ArmInfo
2009-11-10 13:10:00
ArmInfo. Top-performing university students from Yerevan and the
regions will obtain career development opportunities with Armenia's
leading mobile operator VivaCell-MTS.
Thus,VivaCell-MTS, a subsidiary of Mobile TeleSystems OJSC, announces
that today at the Company's Headquarters a Memorandum of Understanding
was signed between the Company, represented by its General Manager
Ralph Yirikian and eight Yerevan- and regional-based universities
of Armenia, represented by their respective Presidents. These higher
education institutions are: the European Regional Educational Academy,
Mkhitar Gosh Armenian- Russian International University, State
Engineering University, Yerevan State University, Leadership School,
Abovyan University after Orbeli, Humanitarian University of Hrazdan
and Vanevan University of Martuni. Earlier this year, on August 7,
similar agreements were signed with six other universities of Armenia.
The majority of universities represent marzes, and this is in line
with the Company's mission to help universities of Armenian marzes
overcome the biggest challenge faced by every university of the
world: how to bridge the theoretical and the practical? How to
prepare tomorrow's leaders in industry, business, civil society,
science and education. Given the lack of up-to-date information
technologies in education and insufficient capacity for practical
skill development namely in marzes, VivaCell-MTS provides universities
with opportunities for various career growth such as: thesis-related
internships for graduate students, specialized lectures delivered in
faculties by VivaCell-MTS experts, joint scientific research projects,
Master's thesis research and curriculum development projects jointly
with faculties, as well as mentorship programs to graduate students
provided by Company specialists. Based on the joint agreements,
universities will in turn provide VivaCell-MTS with their high-
performing students. Selected students will have an opportunity to
obtain specialized internship in specific areas such as commercial law,
finance and accounting, marketing and sales, information technologies,
customer service, etc. In addition, students will receive a salary
to help them cover living expenses in Yerevan.
Thanks to this cooperation, in the long-term, this model of cooperation
with high educational institutions will help them develop their
professors' and instructors' skills and knowledge and develop curricula
embedded in and connected to the realities of professional practice.
Starting from May of this year, when hosted as a guest-speaker by some
of Armenia's universities, VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian
had a series of meetings with students, graduates and faculties in the
regions of Armenia and Yerevan, to share with them on the Company's
achievements and business management model. Excited about opportunity
for their students to start professional experience in VivaCell-MTS,
the educational institutions came up with the initiative to organize
professional internship of their students in the Company, in the
framework of their career-planning effort.
The nature of the cooperation between Armenian Universities
and VivaCell-MTS was summarized in the introductory statement
of VivaCell-MTS General Manager during the short press conference
following the signing ceremony: "Armenian high educational institutions
need support in terms of modern tools for quality contemporary
education. We as a company feel responsibility for filling this gap
between theory and practice. Doing so we achieve three goals: we get
young Armenian graduates educated and knowledgeable; we elevate spirit
of competition among young people who have to think about their future
today; and at the same time we prevent them from leaving the country
for a better future. The time will show how we have succeeded. However,
we believe that we are on the right path. Young Armenians deserve
having the same starting opportunities as the young people in other
countries."