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    DRAUGHT YEAR 2001

    Lragir.am
    13 may 06

    In 2011 the secondary schools of Armenia will not have alumni,
    announced the deputy minister of education Norayr Ghukasyan on May
    11. Fortunately, it will last for only a year. The `eclipse of alumni'
    is determined by the transition to eleven-year secondary education in
    2001. Children who went to school in 2000 will study for 10 years and
    will leave school in 2010. Children who went to school in 2001 will
    study for 11 years and will leave school in 2012, and the secondary
    schools will have no alumni for a year. However, it is good that the
    teaching staffs learn this several years ahead. It is bad for the
    alumni of 2010, however. If no one is going to leave school in 2011,
    and consequently fewer students will go to universities, the income of
    the school and university teachers will go down, because there will be
    no one to buy presents for teachers and there will be less bribing and
    presents on admittance. And since the teaching staffs learned this
    years ahead, the `scrupulous' representatives of this system will
    surely try to fill the gap of this drought' year the year that will
    come before, in other words, the alumni of 2010 will have to `pay' for
    the alumni-free year too. It is also possible, however, that the
    scrupulous teachers and professors start thinking for themselves in
    2006, to fill in the gap of 2011 little by little. In this case, the
    burden of the alumni of 2010 will be divided to the upcoming five
    years.

    However, it is also possible that the burden of `compensation' is laid
    on the shoulders of the alumni of the year coming after the year of
    `drought'.

    In other words, they may begin spending more than the alumni before
    2011. In that case we may be sure that it will become a fixed price,
    and will never drop. And who knows, maybe the transition to an 11-year
    school education in 2001 was intended to create an artificial deficit
    of alumni to cause the prices go up. In economy when they want to
    increase the price of a product, they create an artificial
    deficit. And we know that by a tradition of decades the system of
    education has come to form a visibly essential part of the GDP of
    Armenia, even though its black structure.
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