Armenian PM Elected as a Chairman of Board of State Pedagogical University

The academic board of the State Pedagogical University after Kh. Abovyan held a meeting yesterday. The agenda featured election of a chairman for the board, the Armenian Government website reports.

The meeting was chaired by Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan who introduced the procedure to follow in forming the boards of higher educational institutional and proposed candidates for the post.

A 3-member electoral committee was set up in line with the proposals voiced on the spot. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and MP Anahit Bakhshyan were named as candidates to this post. Through an open vote, Tigran Sargsyan was elected Board Chairman.

“I feel that the State Pedagogical University’s mission needs to be reassessed,” the Prime Minister said adding that this standpoint was behind the discussion of the issue by the political team and the acknowledgment of the need for policy changes. “The nomination of the Prime Minister to the post of board chairman evidences that the University is kept in focus by the State,” Tigran Sargsyan mentioned. He further noted that the Pedagogical University was picked out by virtue of the Armenian authorities’ enhanced thoughtfulness of this sphere.

According to the Prime Minister, the engineering of a new knowledge-based society should be pivotal to reforms in Armenia. “Economic and political reforms must be started from the educational sphere, since like a nation’s educational network, like the nation itself,” Tigran Sargsyan stated adding that the University stands out against the background of radical reforms.