Armen Ashotyan: Self sufficient generation grows in Armenia
2015-10-28
Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia Armen Ashotyan presented the results of the second phase of the research on “Lifestyle of Republic of Armenia students and assessment of Bologna process” , headlined “Social consciousness of students”. Introducing the importance of the social research, Minister highlighted that the main aim of the research was to reveal the real image of the student and their attitude towards education reforms, social and civil relations.
“Last time the opinion of students on reforms in higher education institutions in the context of Bologna process was presented. Taking into consideration that a student is also a citizen of the Republic of Armenia with his/her full rights and freedoms, we also did a research to find out their social-political priorities, behavior characteristics and perceptions over political and civic developments”, Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan mentioned. According to him, the research allows to realize current and future civic developments. Armen Ashotyan mentioned that only 4.6% of the respondents indicated corruption as a key problem facing the state, while the media refers to it more frequently. “Education quality, which is a priority issue for the Ministry of Education and Science, was not much highlighted as well: only 5% mentioned that the quality of education is a problem for them. “The most interesting thing for me is that a self sufficient generation grows in Armenia. The majority believes that everyone is responsible for his fate. This means that we are abandoning the stereotype where all hopes are linked with the state. The data revealing politicization of the students is also of interest. The media is used to say that the students are politicized. The number of students party membership is only 6.8% which is twice less the index of overall population”, the Minister stated.
The survey, commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Science, was conducted by IPSC Company in May and June 2015.
