ArmInfo.Higher educational institutions are facing demographic crisis due to the shortage of students. This was announced on September 11 by RA Minister of Education and Science Arayik Harutyunyan in the National Assembly of Armenia.
According to him, the leadership of the ministry tries to fill the shortage of domestic students with foreign students in order to avoid a crisis in the country's higher education system. The Minister also agreed that some countries have refused to recognize the diplomas of the graduates of the medical university, because private universities offering poor quality of education cast a "shadow" on the entire educational system. " During my personal meeting with the Iranian ambassador in Armenia he pointed at the decline in the quality of education in the country's universities," the minister said, adding that he will soon visit Tehran, where he intends to discuss the problem. Heads of higher educational institutions of the country will also make part of the Armenian delegation to the Iranian capital.
To recall, in the middle of last year, the Ministry of Healthcare of Israel appealed to the police with a complaint against local "dentists" with fake Armenian diplomas. The complaint is based on testimony received by the Association of Dentists in the Arab sector. For more than a year the Ministry of Health of Israel has not approved the diplomas of hundreds of doctors or dentists issued by Armenian universities. Moreover, a few months ago, the department issued a warning to students intending to study in Armenia, that a situation may arise in which their diplomas will not be recognized in Israel at all.