STUDENTS STATE SUPPORT PROGRAM DELAYED

The state scholarship in support to the Armenian students studying in the leading institutes of higher education of the world was also delayed this academic year, though the discussions have practically started since 2007. More than 300 scientists, public, political and cultural figures jointed the initiative with their signatures, stressing the public importance of the problem, the program was approved by the RA Ministry of Education and Science, it was discussed in the government, even the sum was foreseen from the state budget in order to pay the state scholarship. But the discussions were frozen in the electoral and post-electoral periods. 

Today the program's implementation is also postponed by other reasons. Artur Ishkhanyan, a a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences, doctor of physical-mathematical sciences, who started the initiative, thinks that there is a problem of the program "format". According to him, the programs on state scholarship in the world are mainly implemented on the presidential level, as for Armenia, the program passed the governmental discussions, so the President-Prime Minister meeting is necessary. 

According to the project, annual scholarship contest will be organized by the state commission consisting of specialists presenting different spheres and operating actively in science for state support to the Armenian students studying in the foreign prestigious institutes of higher education. The scholarship fund is formed owing to annual allocations from the state budget, as well as due to the donation of non-state organizations and separate individuals. The rating lists of the institutes of higher education are formed on the basis of the annual mobile lists of the Times Higher Education, US News & World Report and the RF Education Federal Agency compiled by the method used in the international practice. 

The scholarship supposes the partial compensation of expenditures on student's educational, transport, accommodation and other expenses. As for the male students, the program also supposes the provision of postponement from the mandatory military service without signing a pledge contract. It should be mentioned that the program foresees the contractual obligations for students, some of them are, for example, returning to Armenia after completing the study, show of high progress in the study. The scholarship is also foreseen for the Diasporan-Armenian students.

About 60 RA citizens study at the leading institutes of higher education of the world today, but the number of students of the Armenian origin makes about 300. Most of them refused from the RA citizenship after entering institutes of higher education or they are migrants of the 90s.

 

Publications in the same topic

http://www.a1plus.am/am/?page=issue&iid=60888

http://new.aravot.am/am/articles/education/34953/view

http://www.panorama.am/am/education/2007/12/25/buh/

http://www.newsarmenia.ru/arm1/20071224/41795702.html

http://www.armtown.com/news/am/lra/20071129/47277

http://www.168.am/am/articles/11496

 

Program's documentary

http://groups.google.fr/group/armenianstudent/web/press

http://groups.google.fr/group/armenianstudent/web/scolarship-proposal---letter-to-vice-president

 

Let's see the further development of the project and be active, support the project's realization. As you see it has exacting meaning for the Armenian academic education and for the development of science

Best wishes
Shushan

 

 

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