PM: ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT TO DO WHATEVER NECESSARY TO MAKE ENTRANCE EXAMS COMPLETELY FAIR BY 2009
Arka News Agency, Armenia
May 29 2007
YEREVAN, May 29. /ARKA/. Armenian government is to do whatever
necessary to make entrance exams completely fair by 2009, Armenian
Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan said Saturday at the government’s
meeting focused on the new centralized examination system, which will
be applied on June 1 in Armenia for the first time.
Governmental press office reports that the premier singled out
openness of exams as one of the ways to reach this goal. He said
everybody who wants will be able to see video records of exams.
Sargsyan also said that every responsible person ought to fulfill
duties properly.
Sargsyan gave a task to local authorities to keep watch on the process
of his instructions implementation stressing that the government
attaches great importance to these measures.
The PM also said that after final exams the government will focus
its attention on entrance exams.
Armenian Education Minister Levon Lazarian presented preparation for
examination stressing that the ministry felt the government’s support.
In his words, meetings with schools’ directors are already held and
all procedural matters settled.
The minister assured the premier that exams would be fair, since the
new mechanism leaves no room for other things.