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    Decrease in Number of Applicants in Higher Educational Establishments of Arts


    YEREVAN, JULY 30, ARMENPRESS: The interest of applicants in the higher
    educational establishments of arts is decreasing year by year,
    according to Sergey Sarajyan, rector of Yerevan State Conservatory
    after Komitas. Sergey Sarajyan said at today's meeting with
    journalists that the number of applicants, who want to study in higher
    educational establishments of arts, decreased this year. 18 applicant
    filed applications for 40 places of the piano department of the
    conservatory.

    `If we do not pay proper attention to the issue we may lose our school
    of pianists. The number of applicants did not decrease so drastically
    in the past years,' Sergey Sarajyan said. He added that the interest
    is big in the duduk, folk songs, estrade and vocal departments. Sergey
    Sarajyan says the Armenian vocalists have an international fame and
    they are warmly accepted in the European opera theatres. He added that
    this is the reason applicants endeavor to study at these departments.

    `Today our people pay a lot of attention to folk musical instruments,
    estrade, folk songs and vocal art. The piano, violin, cello, wind
    instruments are out of focus now and it is quite natural, because when
    one applies to somewhere to study he/she does it for getting a job,'
    Sergey Sarajyan said. He mentioned that more than 250 thousand musical
    and art schools were operating in the Republic during the Soviet
    period, but now the number of such schools is 100. Sergey Sarajyan
    suggests that serious works be undertaken in the direction of making
    those schools active.

    The number of applicants for the departments of painting and sculpture
    - on the basis of which the academy was established - decreased as
    well, according to Aram Isabekyan, rector of RA State Academy of Fine
    Arts. He added that the interest of applicants is bigger in the
    departments of modern specialties, such as design and computer design,
    because the demand for those specialties is bigger in the labor
    market.

    As to the tuition fee, Sergey Sarajyan mentioned that it makes 600 000
    AMD in the State Conservatory. He said the study in the conservatory
    is expensive, because there are plenty of private trainings. However,
    the rector says, this amount is not enough for giving a proper salary
    to the lecturers. The state-funded places were reduced by 50%.

    Aram Isabekyan says all the higher educational establishments of arts
    should be state-funded, as in France. The speakers mentioned that a
    number of Diaspora-Armenians and foreigners study in the higher
    educational establishments of arts. The rectors say those students
    come to get high-quality education.




    From: A. Papazian
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