A scientific center will be set up but the department of radio physics
at Artsakh State will be closed
27-12-2007 13:02:13 – KarabakhOpen
The decision on setting up a Scientific Center which will do research
in fundamental and applied sciences was made during the meeting of
government. The assignments for the center were approved by the
parliament.
Statistics shows that in Karabakh people are more inclined for exact
sciences. In the Soviet Union, however, they had an opportunity to
study at good universities and work at big scientific centers where
they displayed their advantages. After the war less people seem to tend
to study science and a good education is a real problem. The attitude
has also changed. While the public institutions were being established,
science was left out of state building. For instance, in 2007 15
million drams was allocated, and part of this sum was not spent because
there were no grant proposals. The occasional proposals referred to
Armenian and Artsakh culture studies.
In the same meeting of government the minister of education and science
Vladik Khachatryan presented the list of specialty programs which will
be offered by Artsakh State University, Grigor Narekatsi University,
Mesrop Mashtots University and the Institute of Fine Arts. According to
the minister, Artsakh State will not offer programs in such disciplines
as radio physics and forest engineering because applicants are few, and
the teaching staff is not qualified.