ARKA News Agency
Aug 20 2004
Teachers from Armenian Diaspora and Armenia should have single
educational system
Armenian Government holds regular sitting of Water Users Association
council
Organizers of the first pan-Armenian programmers open contest highly
estimate the results
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TEACHERS FROM ARMENIAN DIASPORA AND ARMENIA SHOULD HAVE SINGLE
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
YEREVAN, August 20. /ARKA/. Teachers from the Armenian Diaspora and
Armenia should have single educational system, as Hranush Hakobyan,
the Chairman of Armenian Parliamentary Commission on Science,
Education, and Youth Affairs stated when receiving 50 teachers from
the Armenian Diaspora. She said that Armenia hold educational reforms
and the Diaspora also should be aware of them. Hakobyan proposed
introducing disciplines of Grabar (Ancient Armenian) as well as
Western Armenian in order to remove difficulties of communication
among Armenians from the Diaspora and Armenia. `This is complicated
but a solvable issue’, she considers. Hakobyan reported that the
State undertook responsibility of training those teachers from the
Diaspora who teach history, language, culture. `It is hard to
preserve tradition without Motherland’, she said. 50 teachers from
various countries attend professional training courses in Yerevan on
August 4-27. 160 teachers have been trained in Armenia during five
years. T.M . – 0–
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ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT HOLDS REGULAR SITTING OF WATER USERS ASSOCIATION
COUNCIL
YEREVAN, August 20. /ARKA/. The Armenian Government held regular
sitting of Water Users Association Council. As Armenian Government
Public and Press Relations Department told ARKA, the sitting was led
by Hovik Arahamyan, Armenian Minister for Regional Administration and
Infrastructure Coordination who is simultaneously is the Chairman of
the Council regulating the activity of the Water Users Association.
The sitting particularly examined the reports of the Association of
Ararat and Armavir marzes of Armenia. The Heads of Associations
presented the situation with water supply in marzes and the problems
in the sphere, among them collection of payments against the water
supply, their efficient use, reduction of excessive expense on
irrigation water etc. In this regard, Abrahamyan made instructions to
relevant state authorities and Water User Association. T.M. -0–
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ORGANIZERS OF THE FIRST PAN-ARMENIAN PROGRAMMERS OPEN CONTEST HIGHLY
ESTIMATE THE RESULTS
YEREVAN, August 20. /ARKA/. The organizers of the first pan-Armenian
programmers open contest give high estimates to its results.
According to Arman Valesyan, the Executive Director of UITE, 297
participants took part in the contest. It was held in three stages –
qualification stage, where winner became a 15-year- old teenager,
then the individual stage for the best 40 programmers and team
contest for 30 specialists. Valesyan mentioned that specialists form
nine marzes of Armenia and two participants fro Syria took part in
the contest. He hopes that during the second pan-Armenian programmers
open contest, more specialists from the Diaspora will participate.
In his turn, Hovhannes Avoyan, the President of Union of Information
Technology Enterprises, Director Executive of Lycos-Armenia added
that there is a big demand for quality IT specialists in Armenia.
`The main objective of the contests – search for gifted specialists
and their involvement in IT companies’, he said. In particular, he
mentioned that only in Lycos-Armenia Company exist 15 vacancies and
the company cannot fill these vacancies in course of several months.
The first pan-Armenian programmers open contest was held on June
1-18, 2004. Specialists under 30 from Armenia, Diaspora possessing
one of the programming languages (C++, Visual C++, Visual Basic,
Java, Pascal) took part in the contest. L.V. -0–