Tuesday, 17 July 2007
RA Prime Minister Serzh Sargsjan met with chairmen of subject examination boards on the 2007 entrance examinations for State-owned higher educational institutions. At the start of the meeting, RA Minister of Education and Science Levon Mekertchyan introduced the chairmen of the 17 commissions set up in various subjects by noting that they represented different high schools and were highly qualified and skilled.
The Prime Minister wanted to know what type of assistance was expected from the Government and the Prime Minister of Armenia in order to hold free and fair examinations up to highest standard and went on to emphasize that the success of the latest final examinations held in accordance with the uniform examination system applicable to the subject of Armenian Language, if not completely, at least to some extent, had changed the public opinion with regard to the examination process and, at this point of time, it was necessary to build on this achievement.
Serzh Sargsjan also spoke of the steps planned for the next few years which seek to reduce to the minimum the instances of subjective treatment during examinations. These steps, according to the Prime Minister, call for considerable investment and will take time before all examination processes have been automated. The Government was said to be firm in its intention of going through with these steps. In the meantime, Serzh Sargsyan stressed the need of countering pressure of any type, no matter whom it proceeded from
