YEREVAN, APRIL 26, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. 240 secondary schools, 5 middle professional institutions, the State University of Artsakh, 7 non-state institutions of higher education and branches function at present in the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh. The number of students of schools, middle and higher educational institutions is correspondingly 22 thousand, 2 thousand and 7 thousand. Kamo Atayan, the NKR Minister of Education, Science and Culture informed about this in the interview to the Noyan Tapan correspondent. According to Minister Atayan, the NKR has a stable educational system which functions in the educational field of Armenia. "We have no publication of own text-books, have no separately worked out educational programs either and cooperate with the RA Ministry of Education and Science," he mentioned. According to K.Atayan, the NKR education system has numerous problems the primary one among which creation of the material-technical basis of schools is, what they must do with the help of Armenia. The Minister also mentioned that an important progress was fixed in the sphere of school constrution: "In this sense the situation is rather good, almost all the schools of Artsakh have been constructed." The Minister informed that the Ministry of Education of Artsakh implements at present joint programs with Armenia, in the direction of increasing the quality of education. "Almost all the teachers of Artsakh undergo a general computer training now, as it is supposed that later the computer teaching will be put in the process of teaching all the subjects," K.Atayan mentioned.

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