YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 14, NOYAN TAPAN. 2 types of first forms will be formed at all Armenian schools since the next schoolyear in connection with passing on to a 12-year educational system. As Norayr Ghukasian, RA Deputy Minister of Education and Science, informed during the November 11 consultation of Yerevan school headmasters, children born by 2001 December 31 will be admitted to the 6-years-old age group and children aged 6 and half years and above will be admitted to the next group. The pupils of the first age group will be moved up from the first form into the second and those of the next group at once into the third group. Children of second, third, fourth and the rest of the forms will be moved up a form higher. In 2012 the Armenian schools will have the first leavers of the 12-year-old educational system. According to the Deputy Minister, the curriculums and text-books will be changed only for first-form pupils in 2006 and the others will continue learning with their old text-books. And the new curriculums and text-books worked out by the specialists of National Institute of Education under RA Ministry of Education and Science will be applied gradually.

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