YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Important changes will take place soon in the sphere of secondary education in Armenia. Their implementation will be first of all provided by clear activity of school councils. Levon Mkrtchian, the RA Minister of Education and Science stated about it during the School Councils Chairmen's consultation held on February 15 in Al.Pushkin school No1. L.Mkrtchian expressed a confidence that working out of the program on development of high schools, general computerization and improvement of the material-technical basis is urgent today. Their implementation is directly connected with correct work of school councils. Foundation of school councils of schools of Armenia starting from 1997 is almost completed: those do not exist only in 45 educational institutions from 1430 ones. In Levon Mkrtchian's words, school self-government, which must first of all function in favour of beneficials: pupils, excluding any type of unevennesses during the education process, is put in the basis of management of school councils. "The council must occupy itself with its main function, must complete school development program, give perspectives and exclude meeting illegal actions," he emphasized. The Minister stated that he must have meetings with Chairmen of all school councils. Those meetings have a goal to introduce council Chairmen with their rights: "They must understand that they are the full masters of the school, of the policy being carried on here and are equally responsible for it." "Today we have that structure but the councils are in very poor state and become active only during school directors' elections, being a fawner, by selling their votes for this or that candidate, what, in essence, very badly influences on development of school," the Minister emphasized. The Minister facted that the Ministry also has its part of guilt for omissions existed in councils' works till now: "we must periodically hold a monitoring to reveal all those omissions which exist in them."

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