“YOUTH INDIFFERENT TO THEIR EDUCATION”

Today “Youth and Skills. Specialized education and training” (SET) seminar took place. The seminar is organized by the Ministry of Education, European educational foundation by the support of “Global Developments”. According to Aram Avagyan, the president of “Global Developments” foundation, the mission of the seminar is to inform the interested side about the perspectives of specialized education and its present and future developments, as well as the SET objectives in Europe and Armenia.

A. Avagyan said that three international experts are invited to share their European experience with the participants of the seminar. “Today the level of education in Armenia does not correspond to the demands of the labor market. Hence, our problem is to find ways to match the level of education with the level of the labor market,” said A. Avagyan.

Levon Mkrtchyan, the Minister of Education said that the mission of the seminar is to link education and the labor market, and their demands. The minister notified that the youth is indifferent to their education and the value of that. “This problem should be solved,” he said.