YEREVAN, DECEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS: Armenian education and science minister Sergo Yeritsian said Monday Armenia plans to join the Bologna Declaration next May. He said the ministry had sent a report on Armenian education activity, which was approved. Beofre Armenia’s memebrship is ratified a group of experts will arrive here to carry out a series of studies of the higher education establishments.
The Bologna Declaration was signed in 1999 by education ministers from around 30 of European countries in Bologna, Italy, to establish a single area of higher education by 2010.
The Bologna Declaration of 19 June 1999 involves six actions relating to a system of academic grades which are easy to read and compare, including the introduction of the diploma supplement, designed to improve international “transparency” and facilitate academic and professional recognition of qualifications; a system essentially based on two cycles : a first cycle geared to the employment market and lasting at least three years and a second cycle (Master) conditional upon the completion of the first cycle; a system of accumulation and transfer of credits; mobility of students, teachers and researchers; cooperation with regard to quality assurance; the European dimension of higher education.
Yeritsian said Armenia is able to meet these requirements. He said a timetable of actions was planned which will become more specified after joining the Declaration.
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