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Singapore 3-6 August 2010

COUNTRY PRESENTATION ARMENIA. Singapore 3-6 August 2010. Arkadi Papoyan - Ministry of Education and Science. GENERAL INFORMATION. Territory: 29.8 thous. square km Population: 3.3 million urban 2.1 million (64%) rural 1.2 million (36%) Capital City: YEREVAN

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Singapore 3-6 August 2010

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  1. COUNTRY PRESENTATION ARMENIA Singapore 3-6 August 2010 Arkadi Papoyan - Ministry of Education and Science

  2. GENERAL INFORMATION Territory:29.8 thous. square km Population:3.3 million urban 2.1 million (64%) rural 1.2 million (36%) Capital City:YEREVAN Administrative Divisions:11 Regions (Marzes) Ethnic Divisions:Armenians 96% Kurds 1.8% Russians 1.2% Others 1.0% Languages:Armenian (official), Russian, English

  3. STRUCTURE OF EDUCATION SYSTEM • Preschool education • General education • primary school - 4 years (grades 1-4) • middle school - 5 years (grades 5-9) • high school - 3 years (grades 10-12) • Vocational education • Higher professional education • Bachelor degree - 4 years • Master degree - 2 years • Post-graduate education • Specialist training and qualification improvement institutions

  4. PRESCHOOL EDUCATION Number of community-based preschool institutions:628 Number of children: 53718 Child enrolment: 29.8% urban 39.3% rural 13.6% Number of preschool institution staff:11591

  5. GENERAL EDUCATION Number of schools:1475 Number of students: 414781 Number of teachers: 42601 Enrolment ratio: 92,5% Student/teachers ratio: 9.7 Av. Class Size: 17.3

  6. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION Number of preliminary professional education institutions:28 Number of students: 4581 Number of teachers: 573 Number of middle professional education institutions:104 state institutions 81 private institutions 23 Number of students:31803 Number of teachers: 3743

  7. HIGHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION Number of institutions (and branches):90 (12) state institutions (and branches) 23 (12) private institutions 67 Number of students:114399 Number of higher institutions staff: 20374 Enrolment ratio: 21 % Student/lecturer ratio: 9.4

  8. FINANCING OF EDUCATION SYSTEM

  9. ISSUES AND CHALLENGES • Discrepancy of the program to market economy and requirements of the democratic public • Education is more directed to granting of the academic knowledge, rather than development of skills • Limited use of modern methods of teaching and estimation including ICT • Unproductiveness of the system.

  10. REFORM GOALS Increase the quality of education Ensure the compatibility of the Armenian education system to the current requirements of the society and economy and internationally accepted education standards Develop the Armenian education system towards the needs of “knowledge economy”

  11. CURRENT STAGE OF GENERAL EDUCATION REFORMS • Development and introduction of the National Curriculum Framework (Curriculum and Assessment) • Introduction of the Information and Communication Technologies • Teacher professional development • Increase of general education efficiency

  12. CURRENT STAGE OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION REFORMS • Vocational Education and Training (VET) • Improvement of the governance of VET reform • Improvement of the conditions for delivery of vocational education • Development of educational standards and curricula • Improvement the conditions for Life-long learning • Development of VET Database and Management Information System • Integration into the European Professional Education Area

  13. CURRENT STAGE OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION REFORMS • Higher Education • Improvement of internal and external efficiency of the higher education system • Reforming higher education content • Reforming higher education state funding system • Developing of higher education Database and Management Information System • Inclusion of higher education system into the European Higher Education Area and implementation of the Bologna process requirements

  14. ICT IN EDUCATION • Reforms objectives • Increase computer literacy of learners and teachers • Equip the general schools with ICT as a precondition for its development • Fundamentally reform the teaching methodology for informatics at school • Ensure ICT applications as part of teaching and learning in mandatory subjects

  15. EDUCATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (EMIS) • Improve data collection, maintenance, analysis and dissemination • Make information available in all management levels • Reducing the collection of unnecessary data to minimum • Ensure information availability and transparency of education network data • Make decisions based on information and its analysis

  16. INFORMATION FLOW

  17. TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT • Capacity building in strategic planning, policy stimulation, resource projections and efficient management • Monitoring and evaluation systems, particularly in data collection, processing, analysis

  18. EDUCATION PROGRAMMES MONITORING AND EVALUATION • Since 2006 the Ministry of Education and Science of RA involved in results-based budgeting system • Monitoring and evaluation of education programs based on financial and non-financial indicators • Validity and effectiveness of indicators is one of important factors for program budgeting • Results-based management, planning, monitoring and evaluation are main factors for success in implementation of education reforms • Results-based management directed to improve the effectiveness and outcomes of the education system.

  19. EDUCATION – PLANNING AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS Stage 1 Education Development State Programme for 2011-2015 Stage 2 Development Results Indicators in the Education Field Stage 3 Results Based Management – Monitoring & Evaluation

  20. T H A N K Y O U Singapore 3-6 August 2010

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