Opposition Mounts to Proposed Foreign-Language Schools in Armenia

[Francis Hult]

Eurarsianet.org

 

Opposition Mounts to Proposed Foreign-Language Schools in Armenia

 

A government initiative to re-open foreign-language schools in Armenia after a 17-year ban is generating a heated public outcry. Many are concerned that the move, if implemented, would damage the country's Armenian-language educational system.

 

Draft amendments to the Law on Language and the Law on General Education, submitted by Education Minister Armen Ashotian to parliament on June 4, would allow 15 foreign-language schools to reopen in Armenia. Such schools have been prohibited since 1993, when the government, headed by current opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian, closed them amid a post-Soviet wave of nationalism. 

 

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http://www.eurasianet.org/node/61317

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