YEREVAN, DECEMBER 6, NOYAN TAPAN. 85 state and 23 non-state vocational educational institutions function in Armenia. 29 500 and 1800 students study in those institutions, respectively. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by the Department of Vocational Education of the RA Ministry of Education and Science, as compared with 1991, the number of vocational educational institutions increased by 20%, and that of the students (40 600) decreased by 27.3%. At present the share of vocational education makes only 4 percents in the country's education budget. The new list of professions of vocational education has been approved lately. All professions, the need of which the market has today, in essence, are included in that list. At present 4300 teachers work at the vocational educational institutions.

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