Suren Papikyan is the Chairman of the YSU Board of Trustees, not because he has to discuss party issues there. The Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Vahram Dumanyan stated this today, on 28 December, during a press conference.

“Papikyan is at the university where he studied. He is well aware of the problems there. He is there so that there are no such events as there were before. In the past, for example, YSU was transfering 120 million drams from its modest budget to the Youth Foundation of Armenia every year,” Dumanyan said.

According to the Minister, discussions are underway to make the deferment mechanisms more targeted.

“By targeted we mean an order that does not violate the principle of continuing education in certain professions. It is very good that Papikyan is chairing the university’s board of trustees. He will get acquainted with that issue more closely,” the Minister said.

Touching upon the politicization of universities, Dumanyan asked why they only talk about Suren Papikyan, since the chairman of the Pedagogical University Council is Zhanna Andreasyan, Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, adding that today all universities are free, there are no politicized ones.