The adviser on international cooperation of minister of education and science Arayik Navoyan and the specialist of the UNESCO Global Initiative for Quality Assurance Capacity Hasmik Tortian met with ANQA director Ruben Topchyan and student-experts within the framework of the design of Armenian Higher Education Development Strategic Plan for 2018-2030.
The aim of the meeting was to get to know what kind of higher education students want to see in the future, what preferences they have and what they want to change in the field.
During the meeting, ANQA student-experts emphasized the importance of transmission of practical skills during the learning and the role of the practice, as well as compliance of academic programs with the labor market requirements and university-employer collaboration. They also highlighted the need of advanced teaching of two foreign languages for all professions and promotion of student research.
Mrs. Tortian and Mr. Navoyan thanked ANQA student-experts for motivated discussion, stressing out the importance of their suggestions towards the enhancement of higher education.