ADDITIONAL BUDGETARY RESOURCES SHOULD BE ALLOCATED TO INFORMATIONN TECHNOLOGY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, GAREGIN CHUGASZIAN SAYS
Noyan Tapan
Aug 07 2007
YEREVAN, AUGUST 7, NOYAN TAPAN. During the first two years of their
work, IT graduates of Armenian universities produce the result in
the amount of money invested for their five-year education, Garegin
Chugaszian, the head of the IT cluster of USAID Competitive Armenian
Private Sector (CAPS) Program, executive director of IT Founadtion,
said this at the August 7 press conference.
In his words, from the viewpoint of developing Armenia’s IT sector,
it is important that additional budgetary resources be allocated to
IT educational system, which should also concern school pupils. The
speaker noted that the governments of India, China and Brazil are
now implementing programs on providing all children with cheap (0)
notebooks. In his words, in order to carry out such programs in
Armenia, 20 million dollars – a sum that the government can afford –
is needed.
Rich Goldman, Synopsys company’s vice president for strategic market
development, CEO of Synopsys Armenia CJSC, in his turn noted that some
solutions for developing the educational system of Armenia’s IT and
high-tech sectors were included in the Action Platform of the ArmTech
congress held in San Francisco recently. In particular, organizing
the generation alteration of universities’ teaching staff has been
announced a task. "Proposals for developing the educational system
of the indicated sectors will be made in the next one-two months,"
R. Goldman said.