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Voucher-based education system is ineffective for Georgia's national
minorities - Armenian analyst
March 01, 2013 | 16:47
YEREVAN. - The present-day challenges of Georgian Armenians were
raised during a conference which Georgian PM Bidzina Ivanishvili
organized Tuesday in the Georgian capital city Tbilisi, political
scientist, Georgian Studies specialist Johnny Melikyan stated during a
press conference on Friday.
According to him, the event brought together representatives from
Georgia's Armenian, Azerbaijani, and other national minorities. In
addition, each community presented its most pressing issues.
`By and large, they referred to the education system [in Georgia].
Following the education reforms between 2005 and 2007, the schools
passed on to the voucher[-based] system: the more schoolchildren, that
much more funding,' the analyst noted. At the same time, however, he
stressed that this system does not work in the case of national
minorities.
`Less learners, less financial problems,' he added.
The Georgian Studies specialist informed that the conference
discussants also raised several agricultural matters.
`Some of the Armenians and the Azerbaijanis living in Georgia are
engaged in agriculture, but they come across technical problems in
these activities,' he noted.
As per Melikyan, Primate of the Georgian Diocese of the Armenian
Apostolic Church, and former political prisoner Vahagn Chakhalyan
likewise attended the conference.
`In his address, the [Georgian] PM criticized the former regime, and
noted that they had scared them with Chakhalyan on numerous occasions,
but `he is here [at the conference hall] and he poses no threat,'
[Ivanishvili said],' Johnny Melikyan concluded.
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minorities - Armenian analyst
March 01, 2013 | 16:47
YEREVAN. - The present-day challenges of Georgian Armenians were
raised during a conference which Georgian PM Bidzina Ivanishvili
organized Tuesday in the Georgian capital city Tbilisi, political
scientist, Georgian Studies specialist Johnny Melikyan stated during a
press conference on Friday.
According to him, the event brought together representatives from
Georgia's Armenian, Azerbaijani, and other national minorities. In
addition, each community presented its most pressing issues.
`By and large, they referred to the education system [in Georgia].
Following the education reforms between 2005 and 2007, the schools
passed on to the voucher[-based] system: the more schoolchildren, that
much more funding,' the analyst noted. At the same time, however, he
stressed that this system does not work in the case of national
minorities.
`Less learners, less financial problems,' he added.
The Georgian Studies specialist informed that the conference
discussants also raised several agricultural matters.
`Some of the Armenians and the Azerbaijanis living in Georgia are
engaged in agriculture, but they come across technical problems in
these activities,' he noted.
As per Melikyan, Primate of the Georgian Diocese of the Armenian
Apostolic Church, and former political prisoner Vahagn Chakhalyan
likewise attended the conference.
`In his address, the [Georgian] PM criticized the former regime, and
noted that they had scared them with Chakhalyan on numerous occasions,
but `he is here [at the conference hall] and he poses no threat,'
[Ivanishvili said],' Johnny Melikyan concluded.
- See more at: http://news.am/eng/news/142608.html#sthash.s8XV6ZEl.dpuf