Armenia’s minister of education and science Arayik Harutyunyan considers the depoliticization of schools as a priority task.
David Yang, co-founder at Ayb School, applies to the Minister of Education and Science Arayik Harutyunyan.
Abraham Lincoln said, “If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I would spend 6 of those hours sharpening my axe.” We all waste time in chopping the tree by a blunt axe. We seem to work, but we see no changes.
Starting January 1st, 2018, Budapest’s Central European University (CEU) will no longer be permitted to enrol new students in any programs, unless an agreement is reached between the United States government, the State of New York and Hungary’s Orbán government no later than September and unless CEU opens a new campus in the U.S.
The interlocutors discussed issues related to the establishment of the Inter-University Center for Higher Education. Highlighting the importance of reforms in the system of higher education, Karen Karapetyan welcomed Mr. Simonyan’s initiative in this area.
According to the Minister, it’s planned that the graduates of Monte Melkonyan school will be sent to the best military academies in Russia, China, Italy, France, Germany, Greece and other countries to continue their education.
Ten recipients of the Gratitude Scholarship program from Syria, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories and Lebanon will begin their studies at United World College (UWC) schools around the world in September. These students have been chosen based on their high academic performance. Each is either a refugee or displaced, living in extreme poverty, or living with the loss of a parent or a guardian. Seven of the students will attend UWC Dilijan in Armenia, an international co-educational boarding school which hosts students from more than 60 countries.
40 graduates 2015-16 from Armenia’s all orphanages were donated total AMD 8 million by “Tashir” Charity Foundation. Every year ten thousands of young people graduate from the school. They are quite different, both as individuals and by social origin, as well as by the way they have chosen. However, there are children, who are similar at least regarding one point. They are from orphanages, children, childhood planet of whose was not so pure, as that of thousands of peers.
Official website of Tumo Center for Creative Technologies informs that French “We Demain” newspaper made a ranking of top 10 innovative schools in the world. According to the rating scale Tumo holds the first place. Schools like AltSchool (Silicon Valley), Fuji Kindergarten (Tokyo), Steve Jobs Schools may be found in the top ten as well.
Being proud Armenian, Astghik has always found ways to represent her homeland in the United States and continued doing so while studying at Oxford University and partook in many international conferences. In her own words “I highly deem that the future of Armenia is in our hands and we can and should bring positive social change.”