41 THOUSAND ARMENIAN LITERATURE BOOKS TO BE PROVIDED TO SCHOOLS IN DIASPORA

This year the ministry of education and science will provide 41 thousand books to the Armenian schools in Diaspora, education ministry Diaspora relations department chief specialist, Tamara Zalinyan, told Panorama.am.

He mentioned an educational package is planned to be developed within Armenian as a Second Language program. The package will include the ABC book, tapes, student copy books, teacher manual, supplementary materials as well as pre –school educational materials. The development works have already started.

The chief specialist informed that 70 million drams were allocated from the state budget to provide books and develop the package. Last year 60,000 102 name books were provided to the schools in the Armenian communities.