Students’ lack of knowledge harming education

“Ninety percent of a student’s knowledge is gained in the classroom, with the remaining 10% in private classes or tutoring,” said education specialist Seyran Balasanyan, in an interview with panorama.am.

In his words, students are especially weak in chemistry, physics, and mathematics, whereas these are the subjects needed in the field of engineering.

“The level of education is quite low, and is a troubling issue,” he said. “This makes the work of the educator difficult. In other words, we need to prepare students in the fields needed for university studies, not in standard ones.”

Another problem he sees is students’ weakness in Russian, the result of which makes other subjects more difficult. “They can’t use Russian-language sources, which are plentiful in our libraries. And translating into Armenian would take much financing and preparation of experts able to do this translating,” stated Balasanyan.

We remind that education minister Levon Mkrtchyan, just days ago, said, when speaking about the level of education in Armenia, “Education here has to reach European standards, and we have to become the regional leader in education.”