MINISTER MEETS DIASPORA ARMENIAN TEACHERS

Armenian Minister of Education and Science Levon Mkrtchyan introduced the pace of education reforms at a yesterday’s meeting with thirty Armenian teachers who arrived from eleven countries throughout the world to take part in training courses held every year. The minister expressed concern that fewer students attend Armenian schools abroad and praised the pedagogues for a mission significant for the nation that they bear on their shoulders with all its hardship.

During the meeting, the diaspora Armenian teachers raised issues concerning them and came up with suggestions on different phases of education management. They were particularly interested in teaching Armenian as a foreign language, textbooks and supplementary materials, establishment of Armenian department at foreign universities and issues relating to the possibility of support from the state budget of Armenia to those aims.