SCIENCE WILL HAVE A NEW CONCEPTION
Support A1+!The problems in the science field of Armenia made the RA officials create a new conception of reforms in the science field, deputy Minister of Science and Education Ara Avetisyan announced today. According to him, the future conception includes a number of urgent problems of the field.
A interdepartmental committee has been created which includes representatives of the National Academy of Science, Ministry of Commerce and Economic development, Ministry of Finance, the President’s Administration and the Government. The newly created structure is supposed to represent a new conception of reforms in the science field till January 2007. Three working groups have already been created. There is also a draft document which according to Ara Avetisyan will be discussed in November. He claims that no written offer will escape the attention of the Committee.
Two of the working groups will leave for Hungary and Czech Republic, and the other two – to Poland and Lithuania, in order to investigate the governing mechanisms and forms of financing in those countries.
Asked a question about the fate of the resolution of the United Labor party about the National Academy of Science, the deputy minister answered, “The draft was devoid of scientific basis. Speaking about the science field, the draft confused the PHD with post-graduate education; such errors considerably weakened it”.
