Education year kicks off guided by Armenian Independence fete
The education year in schools of Armenia is promised to be hot as Minister Ashotyan has assigned. Narine Hovhannisyan, the head of Public Education Department of the Ministry of Education and Science, said the directors of the schools are told to prepare special events dedicated to the 20th jubilee of Independence of Armenia and to be guided by the forthcoming fete.
The official says chess studies are the innovation of the education year, as chess will be taught in schools since the second form.
The pupils of the first forms have freshly furnitured classrooms; they will get free ABCs and notebooks.