YEREVAN, APRIL 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The pre-school and middle professional spheres are in poor state in the education system of Armenia: the material-technical basis, particularly buildings, are decomposed here, among other problems. RA Minister of Education and Science Levon Mkrtchian informed journalists about it on April 20. In the Minister's words, problems of the sphere are mainly being solved within the framework of the two credit programs on education of the World Bank: first of all, school buildings were kept, the issue of printing and keeping the text-books was solved. In the Minister's words, the only defect of the mentioned sphere is today solution of the problems arisen before the high school. The Minister mentioned that passing to the 12-year education system supposes that all children must study at the main school, involving the 9th grade. In future some of them may continue the education process at middle professional institutions, and others will study at the 10th, 11th, 12th grades of line classes with programs of clear orientation. A 17 mln evros credit was got by the education programs of the European Union for middle professional and pre-school spheres. Problems of those spheres of education must be solved by it.

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