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ARMENIA'S CLEVER MOVE: COMPULSORY CHESS CLASSES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS
Daily Mail Reporter
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061996/Armenias-clever-Compulsory-chess-classes-primary-school-pupils.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
15th November 2011
Nearly £300,000 earmarked to introduce new initiative Chess has been
made compulsory for primary school pupils in Armenia.
Education chiefs in the chess-obsessed former Soviet nation have
made the game part of the national curriculum for children between
the ages of seven and nine.
The Armenian authorities say teaching chess in school is about building
character rather than breeding champions.
Checkmate: Education chiefs say that teaching chess to pupils will
be character building Taking the pastime into classrooms will help
nurture a sense of responsibility and organisation as well as serving
as an example to the rest of the world, education minister Armen
Ashotyan claimed.
~QWe hope that the Armenian teaching model might become among the
best in the world,~R he said.
More...Undercover sting shows schoolgirl, 14, allowed to flout the
law and use sunbeds in HALF of tanning salons Less than fifth of
child runaways reported missing by parents and guardians
Nearly £300,000 has been allocated to allow the national chess
academy to draw up a course, create textbooks, train instructors and
buy equipment.
Another £600,000 will go towards buying furniture for chess classrooms.
Chess is a national obsession in tiny Armenia, a nation of three
million situated between Turkey and Iran.
The passion was fostered during the Soviet era, when the country~Rs
own Tigran Petrosian won the world championship in 1963.
He successfully defended the title three years later.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061996/Armenias-clever-Compulsory-chess-classes-primary-school-pupils.html#ixzz1doahXrAB
Daily Mail Reporter
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061996/Armenias-clever-Compulsory-chess-classes-primary-school-pupils.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
15th November 2011
Nearly £300,000 earmarked to introduce new initiative Chess has been
made compulsory for primary school pupils in Armenia.
Education chiefs in the chess-obsessed former Soviet nation have
made the game part of the national curriculum for children between
the ages of seven and nine.
The Armenian authorities say teaching chess in school is about building
character rather than breeding champions.
Checkmate: Education chiefs say that teaching chess to pupils will
be character building Taking the pastime into classrooms will help
nurture a sense of responsibility and organisation as well as serving
as an example to the rest of the world, education minister Armen
Ashotyan claimed.
~QWe hope that the Armenian teaching model might become among the
best in the world,~R he said.
More...Undercover sting shows schoolgirl, 14, allowed to flout the
law and use sunbeds in HALF of tanning salons Less than fifth of
child runaways reported missing by parents and guardians
Nearly £300,000 has been allocated to allow the national chess
academy to draw up a course, create textbooks, train instructors and
buy equipment.
Another £600,000 will go towards buying furniture for chess classrooms.
Chess is a national obsession in tiny Armenia, a nation of three
million situated between Turkey and Iran.
The passion was fostered during the Soviet era, when the country~Rs
own Tigran Petrosian won the world championship in 1963.
He successfully defended the title three years later.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061996/Armenias-clever-Compulsory-chess-classes-primary-school-pupils.html#ixzz1doahXrAB