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TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT OF ARMENIAN UNIVERSITIES IS POOR
YEREVAN, April 25. / ARKA /. In terms of technical equipment Armenian
universities fail to meet not only the requirements of employers,
but also their own requirements and those set by the government, head
of Enterprises Incubator Foundation Bagrat Yengibaryan said to ARKA.
"This is the area that needs close attention because serious results
can not be achieved by installing new equipment and staff retraining
only," he said.
He said this task can be assisted by the national IT lab, patterned
from an engineering lab scheduled to open in September of this year.
He said he is surprised why few students choose technical specialties.
"I was surprised when I learned that economic department students have
to be retrained so as to work as programmers in order to find jobs,"
he said.
He said the leading Armenian universities in terms of IT are the State
Engineering University of Armenia, and Yerevan State University. The
top five also includes the Armenian-Russian (Slavonic) University,
and the European Academy. He said there are also high expectations
associated with the American University of Armenia, that offers a
Bachelor's degree.
To date, the IT sector has about 350 enterprises, which employ about
10 thousand employees. According to the Union of Information Technology
Enterprises (UITE), last year this sector reported a 25 percent growth
with a annual turnover around $250 million. -0-
YEREVAN, April 25. / ARKA /. In terms of technical equipment Armenian
universities fail to meet not only the requirements of employers,
but also their own requirements and those set by the government, head
of Enterprises Incubator Foundation Bagrat Yengibaryan said to ARKA.
"This is the area that needs close attention because serious results
can not be achieved by installing new equipment and staff retraining
only," he said.
He said this task can be assisted by the national IT lab, patterned
from an engineering lab scheduled to open in September of this year.
He said he is surprised why few students choose technical specialties.
"I was surprised when I learned that economic department students have
to be retrained so as to work as programmers in order to find jobs,"
he said.
He said the leading Armenian universities in terms of IT are the State
Engineering University of Armenia, and Yerevan State University. The
top five also includes the Armenian-Russian (Slavonic) University,
and the European Academy. He said there are also high expectations
associated with the American University of Armenia, that offers a
Bachelor's degree.
To date, the IT sector has about 350 enterprises, which employ about
10 thousand employees. According to the Union of Information Technology
Enterprises (UITE), last year this sector reported a 25 percent growth
with a annual turnover around $250 million. -0-