ArmInfo.Under the Transformation Strategy, at least three Armenian higher schools must be among the world's 200 best universities by 2050, and Yerevan State University (YSU) is one of the major candidates, Armenia Premier Nikol Pashinyan stated at a YSU graduation ceremony.
Education and educational reforms are Armenia's most important strategically important priorities. And the prime cause of different problems is education problems, the premier said.
"I think we need to develop our higher education system, to give it a new quality and content. I am hopeful and sure that the graduates of Yerevan State University will become the driving force that will make educational reforms more significant for us," the premier said.
The premier also thanked YSU lecturers and presented some of them with awards.
And Nobel Prize laureate Ardem Patapoutian made a speech at the ceremony.