YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN. Levon Mkrtchian, the RA Minister of Education and Science will present the educational reforms implemented in Armenia at the meeting of the Education Ministers of the Bologna treaty member states to take place in Strasbourg on December 11-14. Achievements and ommissions of the education system of Armenia will for the first time officially be presented at the conference of the Bologna process member states to take place in London in autumn, 2007. Minister of Education and Science Levon Mkrtchian stated about it at the November 24 press conference. In the Minister's words, the Advisor of Armenia on education reforms will probably be the Education Quality Support Center of Great Britain on the occasion of what negotiations are in process at present. In L.Mkrtchian's words, among the Bologna agreement member countries, Britain is at present the strongest and most long-lasting center in the sense of the education quality support. The Minister stated that the RA Government affirmed on November 2, 2006, the schedule of implementation of the Bologna process principles in the RA higher professional education sphere. According to it, a number of steps is envisaged to implement till 2010. In his words, first of all, a national system of qualifications must be worked out and the National Quality Center will be founded in the staff of which three important components of education reforms will work and cooperate: testing, education quality estimation and "Enik-Narek" (center for mutual recognition) centers. Besides, in the direction of introduction of the three-degree system, it is envisaged to adopt the list of new specialities of higher education, to work out models of preparing bachelor, master specialists as well as according to education degrees, to work out and introduce state educational standards according to the credit system of the higher professional education. Minister Mkrtchian informed journalists that the new education credit program of the World Bank will be certified in 2008. In the Minister's words, success of educational reforms will first of all be provided by the society's response. And to better inform the society and make it participant of the process, the guidebook entitled "From Bologna to Bergen" is already being published in the Armenian translation where all the stages of educational reforms and their necessity are presented in details.

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