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    RA MINISTRY OF DIASPORA WORKS OUT PROGRAM OF DELIVERY OF TEXTBOOKS AND OTHER LITERATURE TO ARMENIAN SCHOOLS OF DIASPORA

    Noyan Tapan
    July 1, 2009

    YEREVAN, JULY 1, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The RA Ministry of
    Diaspora has worked out and submitted for RA government's discussion a
    Program of Assistance to Solution of Educational Problems of Armenian
    Schools of Diaspora: 2010-2012 Program of Delivery of Textbooks,
    Manuals, Methodic Materials to Those Schools. As the hayernaysor.am
    electronic newspaper was informed by Sirvard Hambarian, the Head of the
    Scientific-Educational Programs Subdivision of Ministry's Department
    of All Armenian Programs, under the program it is planned to provide
    Armenian schools in the Diaspora with necessary literature: textbooks,
    methodic manuals and supplementary materials for 2010-2012 with RA
    state budget funds. It is planned to deliver 20 thousand pieces of
    literature every year, which amounts to nearly 11m drams. Textbooks'
    delivery will be organized by joint forces of the RA Ministry of
    Diaspora and RA Ministry of Education and Science. The Ministry of
    Diaspora will study the needs of Diaspora's educational centers,
    will sum up the submitted applications and will pass them to the RA
    Ministry of Education and Science.

    According to S. Hambarian, the program of providing Armenian schools
    in Diaspora with textbooks has been implemented by the RA Ministry of
    Education and Science since 2002. Program's current task is to meet
    the educational needs of nearly 400 everyday and 700 one-day schools
    in more than 30 countries of the Diaspora. The list of literature,
    supplementary materials is sent to Armenian communities, Diasporan
    educational centers for the purpose of providing teaching materials,
    on the basis of which the schools mention their demand. The list of
    107 titles of literature provided by the RA Ministry of Education and
    Science includes textbooks used at Armenia's comprehensive schools,
    methodic literature, manuals, supplementary, didactic materials,
    disks, popular scientific literature, children's encyclopedias,
    children's literature.

    Nevertheless, according to S. Hambarian, part of schools working in
    the Diaspora badly need educational literature made up in the homeland.

    Educational centers of communities making part of the classical
    Diaspora, as well as of newly formed communities (South America,
    Russian Federation Far Eastern regions, etc.) are in a sad condition,
    where one of the primary problems of teaching the Armenian language,
    education in the Armenian spirit is the lack of curricula, textbooks,
    working copybooks, methodic manuals, supplementary materials.

    According to S. Hambarian, free provision of Diaspora's educational
    centers with textbooks should be totalized by organization of
    delivery to Armenian communities. Delivery of literature provided by
    Armenia has been done by means of the RA Foreign Ministry so far, but
    there are difficulties in that issue due to diplomatic post weight
    limitations. Meanwhile not all areas populated with a great number
    of Armenians or areas having Armenian schools have RA diplomatic
    representations and consular services. Literature is also delivered to
    Diaspora's schools by means of individual representatives of Armenian
    organizations of Diaspora visiting Armenia for other purposes,
    schools and communities, who take the literature as their personal
    luggage and cannot carry literature in large volumes. According
    to S. Hambarian, the way of solving the problem is organization of
    delivery of literature provided free of charge to Armenian educational
    centers by Armenia with state resources.
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