THE YOUNG TO COME, BUT WHERE FROM?
Panorama.am
16:20 11/04/06
The reply of former NAS President Fadey Sargsyan to the question whom
he would like to see in the position of NAS President was as follows:
“I can see everyone you are thinking about, all of them are worth
occupying the position.”
As F. Sargsyan thinks the Academy must be governed by a young person
“as rather difficult times for the Academy are approaching.” The
academic and scientific amendments have to be completed. “The Academy
must be governed by a young person who will have the ability and
strength to carry out all that work,” he said.
Yet, it’s not easy to imagine a young President of NAS as at present
the “youngest” member-academician is 65.
In his turn, F. Sargsyan fixed that the average age of academicians
is 70. “No one is t blame. It’s life.”
It’s a universal truth that our country is in a scientific
crisis. If some think the reason of the crisis lies in the person
of F. Sargsyan and his abuses, the latter think the true reason of
Armenian scientific crisis is “that there are no such conditions as
before the independence.”
However, F. Sargsyan resigned and one can hardly hope that it
will be possible to overcome the problems of science in the near
future.