Today, the newly appointed RA Minister of Education and Science, Levon Mkrtchyan invited the first working consultation. The responsibilities of the ministry’s subdivision and separate structures were present.
The Minister opened the consultation stressing the importance of the introduction of the culture of management, which are stipulated by the ongoing reforms in the management system in the republic.
“In the last speech of the RA President, clear approaches for the coming years were shown. In fact, it is the new programmatic document of the RA, which will be included in our agenda.
“The educational system’s program reform should be carried out in compliance with the new agenda. The persons who can and are ready for the developing of the new system, will continue their work,” noted Levon Mkrtchyan. He emphasized that many of them have passed a long way in the education system. The Minister stressed that the only criterion for the evaluation of the work is the professionalism.
Educational reforms were the primary compliance and quality programs. The minister spoke about all levels of education, in particular the problems in the sphere of public education, vocational education and higher education.
In this context Levon Mkrtchyan emphasized the need of raising the effectiveness of the programs in the sphere of high schools and in the higher education masters program. We have the problem when the parents do not want their children go to higher school, it is intolerable. We have problems in the bachelors and masters programs, specifically, we should separate bachelors and masters programs in order to ensure their compliance to the requirements of the labor market.
The Minister also referred to the issue of funding the structural composition of the education system, the operations of separate subdivision and sa number of other issues.
