YEREVAN, OCTOBER 2, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA Ministry of Education and Science has already submitted to the RA government the complex development program of the education of Armenia up to 2015, which includes all the program amendments implemented from general education up to professional one. According to the information provided by Levon Mkrtchian, the RA MInister of Education and Science, during the meeting with journalists held on September 28, the necessity for making amendments in the sphere of education is first of all conditioned by the circumstance that it is necessary to be included in the European educational field, which takes a great place in the world today, stage by stage , that is to say, by programmatic succession. According to him, integration makes it possible to provide the continuation of higher and middle level professional education and to organize a corresponding training abroad. "We aim at bringing the Armenian educational programs, standards and quality in conformity with the greatest European educational system," Levon Mkrtchian said. According to the Minister, it is necessary to have such an educational system rendering scientific-educational services, due to which not only foreign students will study in Armenia, but also the rating of the educational institutions of Armenia will rise in the region, which, in the conviction of Levon Mkrtchian, can be provided only in case of integrating into the European field.

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