YEREVAN, JULY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. All Yerevan's education and pre-education institutions will be provided with boiler-houses until 2010. Onik Vatian, the Head of the Education Department of Yerevan Mayor's Office, reported at the July 30 press conference. According to him, 99 Yerevan schools will have boiler-houses by the end of the year. In addition, 44 comprehensive schools within the jurisdiction of the Mayor's Office will be repaired with the funds of the state budget. 3.7bn drams (nearly 10.8m USD) will be allocated for this purpose. Touching upon the results of the 2006-2007 schoolyear, O. Vatian said that average progress in nearly 200 schools in the above mentioned period made 97.8%, which exceeds the previous schoolyear's index by 1.9%. The number of pupils getting good and excellent marks made 52.2% in the 2006-2007 schoolyear. And 100 out of nearly 122 thousand pupils were not promoted to the next form. They will take re-examination between August 20 to 30. O. Vatian also said that teachers' retraining courses are organized by the Education Department of the Mayor's Office: 3800 teachers have already had retraining. Another 2700 teachers are being retrained at 8 school-centers at present, in particular, specialists of the subjects, whose subject curricula will be put into operation from September 1.

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