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DEGREE OF DECEPTION?: STUDENTS STILL WAITING FOR DIPLOMAS IN CONTROVERSY OVER SUSPENDED UNIVERSITY
By Siranuysh Gevorgyan
ArmeniaNow
18.11.11 | 14:19
The Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia and the management
of Yerevan Galick University continue voicing mutual accusations over
the issue of 51 students, who are deprived of receiving a Bachelor's
diploma. The issue, as the management of the university has stated,
will soon be transferred to the judicial field.
Even though 51 students of the university's Management Faculty have
passed the state final exams, it is already more than six months that
they cannot take their diplomas, because they have found out that
within the recent one year they have studied at a faculty, paying a
tuition for it, the license of which was suspended by the Ministry
of Education and Science in 2010. (Tuition fee is 182,000 dram -- $500.
The University insists that the ministry has suspended the license
of the faculty for certified specialists who study five years, and
not of the Bachelor's degree of the Management Faculty, with four
years education).
Deputy Rector of Galick University Gevorg Harutyunyan says that they
have not received the decision of the ministry within the defined
timeframe, under which the Bachelor's license should have been
suspended, and according to the law, in this case the suspension of
the license is automatically considered to be removed.
The ministry in its turn insists that they have responded to all
the inquiries and applications made by the university within the
defined timeframe, simply the rector of the university has ignored the
ministry's decision, and continued providing education at the faculty,
in order not to lose the tuition fees.
Within the recent two years the Ministry of Education and Science has
closed more than 30 institutes of higher learning or faculties, and
during that period students who studied there have been transferred
to other institutions which offer the same fields of study. Properly
managed, those 51 students would have also been able to continue
their education in another institution.
At a Thursday press conference, Minister of Education and Science
Armen Ashotyan referring to this issue stated, "The case of Galick
is shocking with its impudence.
"They are ready to play with the fate of 51 young people, aiming to
take tuition fees from them, and then to collect money from them
for diplomas. Anyway, if they really decide to appeal to a court,
I personally will attend some of the court sessions. Besides, I am
ready to make some other details public."
By Siranuysh Gevorgyan
ArmeniaNow
18.11.11 | 14:19
The Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia and the management
of Yerevan Galick University continue voicing mutual accusations over
the issue of 51 students, who are deprived of receiving a Bachelor's
diploma. The issue, as the management of the university has stated,
will soon be transferred to the judicial field.
Even though 51 students of the university's Management Faculty have
passed the state final exams, it is already more than six months that
they cannot take their diplomas, because they have found out that
within the recent one year they have studied at a faculty, paying a
tuition for it, the license of which was suspended by the Ministry
of Education and Science in 2010. (Tuition fee is 182,000 dram -- $500.
The University insists that the ministry has suspended the license
of the faculty for certified specialists who study five years, and
not of the Bachelor's degree of the Management Faculty, with four
years education).
Deputy Rector of Galick University Gevorg Harutyunyan says that they
have not received the decision of the ministry within the defined
timeframe, under which the Bachelor's license should have been
suspended, and according to the law, in this case the suspension of
the license is automatically considered to be removed.
The ministry in its turn insists that they have responded to all
the inquiries and applications made by the university within the
defined timeframe, simply the rector of the university has ignored the
ministry's decision, and continued providing education at the faculty,
in order not to lose the tuition fees.
Within the recent two years the Ministry of Education and Science has
closed more than 30 institutes of higher learning or faculties, and
during that period students who studied there have been transferred
to other institutions which offer the same fields of study. Properly
managed, those 51 students would have also been able to continue
their education in another institution.
At a Thursday press conference, Minister of Education and Science
Armen Ashotyan referring to this issue stated, "The case of Galick
is shocking with its impudence.
"They are ready to play with the fate of 51 young people, aiming to
take tuition fees from them, and then to collect money from them
for diplomas. Anyway, if they really decide to appeal to a court,
I personally will attend some of the court sessions. Besides, I am
ready to make some other details public."