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NEW REFORMS IN EFFECT TO RULE OUT FAKE SCIENTIFIC TITLES - EDUCATION OFFICIAL
15:31 * 27.02.15
The head of the Armenian Education Ministry's Supreme Qualification
Commission on Friday unveiled new reforms aimed at eradicating the
practice of issuing fake scientific titles.
Lilit Arzumanyan said that they have introduced changes to the
Commission's basic document, toughening and in the meantime
facilitating certain procedures.
"The chart is not only a tool in our hands but also a document which
regulates the system of [scientific] degree promotion in Armenia,"
she said, noting that the document, drafted in 1993-95, was finally
approved by a Government decision in 1997.
He said the changes over the past years necessitated certain revisions
and amendments. "Admission exams for post-graduate education were the
same minimum requirement tests. They have been eliminated to enable
[post-graduate students] to devote more time to their research,"
Arzumanyan noted.
The requirements for scientific supervisors have been toughened too,
she said, adding that they from now on will be required to have
publications twice exceeding the volume of previous works.
"Only the PhD candidates who are active in science should supervise
dissertations. If there are dissatisfactions with the dissertations'
quality today, that's also due to the non-contentiousness of heads
of expert councils," she said, noting that a PhD candidate will be
required to have 30 published scientific articles to qualify for the
requirements for a scientific supervisor.
Arzumanyan said that the Commission last year rejected and returned
128 papers, which were either reproductions from an original source
or did not appropriately cover the topic.
"The situation this year is very deplorablem as 26 papers were returned
in two months alone. I don't know where we will get with such paces,"
she said.
Arzumanyan added that their main difficulties are with expert councils
rather than the candidates themselves.
"Anyone can want a lot of things, including research work, but it
is for the expert councils to evaluate science. If the commission
returns a paper, that's a sign that the expert councils failed to
properly work. That's the shortcoming in our system today," she added.
Nonetheless the commission's president said she doesn't lose
hope either about the potentials of science in Armenia or the
competitiveness of Armenian scientists abroad.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/02/27/boh/1603122
15:31 * 27.02.15
The head of the Armenian Education Ministry's Supreme Qualification
Commission on Friday unveiled new reforms aimed at eradicating the
practice of issuing fake scientific titles.
Lilit Arzumanyan said that they have introduced changes to the
Commission's basic document, toughening and in the meantime
facilitating certain procedures.
"The chart is not only a tool in our hands but also a document which
regulates the system of [scientific] degree promotion in Armenia,"
she said, noting that the document, drafted in 1993-95, was finally
approved by a Government decision in 1997.
He said the changes over the past years necessitated certain revisions
and amendments. "Admission exams for post-graduate education were the
same minimum requirement tests. They have been eliminated to enable
[post-graduate students] to devote more time to their research,"
Arzumanyan noted.
The requirements for scientific supervisors have been toughened too,
she said, adding that they from now on will be required to have
publications twice exceeding the volume of previous works.
"Only the PhD candidates who are active in science should supervise
dissertations. If there are dissatisfactions with the dissertations'
quality today, that's also due to the non-contentiousness of heads
of expert councils," she said, noting that a PhD candidate will be
required to have 30 published scientific articles to qualify for the
requirements for a scientific supervisor.
Arzumanyan said that the Commission last year rejected and returned
128 papers, which were either reproductions from an original source
or did not appropriately cover the topic.
"The situation this year is very deplorablem as 26 papers were returned
in two months alone. I don't know where we will get with such paces,"
she said.
Arzumanyan added that their main difficulties are with expert councils
rather than the candidates themselves.
"Anyone can want a lot of things, including research work, but it
is for the expert councils to evaluate science. If the commission
returns a paper, that's a sign that the expert councils failed to
properly work. That's the shortcoming in our system today," she added.
Nonetheless the commission's president said she doesn't lose
hope either about the potentials of science in Armenia or the
competitiveness of Armenian scientists abroad.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2015/02/27/boh/1603122