01/08/2013 12:15
Declining number of students is cause of universities’ merger
Rumors have been circulating in Gyumri for a long time about the possible merger of the Gyumri branch of State Engineering University of Armenia with the Gyumri State Pedagogical University.
According to well-informed sources of ‘Zhoghovurd’, the decline in the number of students, which results in growing expenses of universities is the cause of a planned merger of the two universities. In connection with the issue, Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotian’s spokesman Arthur Baghdasarian told the paper: “The project is at the discussion stage. But I cannot say at the moment which universities will merge and on what terms”.