Tuesday, February 12 2019 14:24

ArmInfo. Yerevan  Foil-Rolling Plant ARMENAL and the National Polytechnic University of  Armenia (NPUA) concluded an agreement on cooperation in the training  of technical specialists. General Director Artur Zakaryan of RUSAL  ARMENAL CJSC  and NPUA Rector Vostanik Marukhyan signed the document.

For its part, ARMENAL is ready, in the light of vacancies, to provide  NPUA graduates with the jobs specified in the contract. For students,  the plant organizes industrial and pre-diploma practice, will provide  experienced engineers who will lead term papers and graduation  projects.

"The term of our contract is 5 years with the possibility of  prolongation," said General Director of RUSAL ARMENAL  CJSC Arthur  Zakaryan, This document became a logical continuation of the  agreement between the Polytechnic University and ARMENAL, concluded  in June 2002 and became the basis for fruitful and mutually  beneficial cooperation of the plant with a leading technical  university of the republic.

To recall, earlier, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, on his Facebook  page, noted that one of the most important processes in Armenia in  recent months was the tendency to revive vocational education.  "Dozens of private companies, with the mediation and support of the  government, conclude contracts with state educational institutions on  training for them," he wrote. Thus, according to the Prime Minister,  the private sector receives a specific interest in making investments  in the educational system: providing material and technical  assistance to educational institutions so that they train the  personnel needed by these companies.  As Pashinyan explained, this  means that, at a minimum, most graduates will have a guaranteed job.  "Most pleased is that this process is also going on in the regions.  About two dozen contracts have already been concluded in the fields  of textiles, tourism, food industry, design and other industries.  About a dozen more contracts are expected to be signed in the near  future," - he said.