Tuesday, April 28 2020 13:38

ArmInfo. The admission of  Armenian applicants to foreign universities will be organized after  agreement with foreign partners. Deputy Minister of Education,  Science, Culture and Sports Zhanna Andreasyan announced this at a  press conference on April 28.

As noted, admission to universities under interstate agreements will  be carried out after clarification by the Ministry of Education of  Armenia, the number of allocated places, the timing of admission, as  well as the possibility of organizing the educational process. This  information should be obtained from partner countries with which  interstate agreements have been concluded.

As for the educational processes within Armenia itself, here the  distance education system will operate in schools until May 22 (in  the case of five-day school-week) and until May 23 (in the case of  six -day school-week). The possibility of organizing additional  lessons in the new school year, in October-September, and in cases  where there will be a lag of students from the current curriculum is  also discussed. The possibility of starting a new school year a week  earlier is also possible.

As previously reported, final exams at the end of IV, IX, X, XI, XII  grades, as well as in colleges and schools, will not be held, and  annual grade will be formed on the basis of performance indicators  until March 13, and after, when in connection with the emergency, a  transition to distance education was announced. Andreasyan noted that  the decision was made taking into account the fact that 15-20% of  students are not involved in distance education due to the lack of  appropriate devices. Earlier, the deficit of technical equipment was  estimated at about 24 thousand units, and this issue was only  partially resolved by donations from individual individuals and legal  entities. So, from the side of VivaCell-MTS, 500 smartphones were  allocated for these purposes.

According to the deputy minister, certificates will be issued to  students by May 25, and entrance examinations at universities will be  held in the first ten days of July. At the same time, the exam will  be conducted in only one subject in the chosen specialty, and there  will be no oral examinations. Exams for graduate school and master's  program will be held June 16-30; their results will be summarized  until July 5.

As for the enrollment of schoolchildren in the first grade, this  process will be carried out on the basis of electronic applications.  As expected, this process will start in the first ten days of June.