Today, during the regular rectorate session at the Pedagogical University the core issue on the agenda referred to the structural changes of the University. The University
Chancellor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Rouben Mirzakhanyan introduced the new nominal amendments and the pursuant functional changes of the most important bodies of the University- the Vice Chancellors.
The Vice Chancellor of Science and Postgraduate Education, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor Ara Yeremyan will hereinafter assume the position of the Vice Chancellor of Personnel and International Cooperation Ara Yeremyan, and the Vice Chancellor of Distant Learning and Additional Education, Candidate of Physical-Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor Tigran Ayvazyan will hold the position of the Vice Chancellor of Education Quality and Distant Learning.
The newly opened position of the Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs was held by the Dean of the Faculty of Education Psychology and Sociology, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor Srbouhi Gevorgyan, while the latter’s previous position will be assumed by the Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor Rouzanna Petrosyan.
In addition, Rouben Mirzakhanyan highly praised Srbouhi Gevorgyan’s academic and organizational potential and assured that as a graduate of the Pedagogical University who had the experience of numerous years at the Pedagogical, the professional will proceed with her effective and productive work as a Vice Chancellor.
“The school, internship and the postgraduate education are the essential circles that will be in the focus of the University’s upcoming activities. We should pay major attention to the subjects taught at schools, to their contextual component, and introduce amendment to them,” the Chancellor mentioned and put in the following, “In the process of learning no educational approach can substitute the internships, which is still of a formal nature for us.
In this regards, the upcoming new Internship Department will stimulate a line of serious fundamental changes in the field, and the internship results will serve as criteria for the qualification.”
Furthermore, the Chancellor mentioned that no structural changes for the faculties are expected in near future, then outlined that the positive changes made in the past contribute to the University’s ongoing dynamic development. Moreover, the University Chancellor made a number of assignments to the heads of different circles. He assured that extended and circumstantial discussions would continue and will further give their fruitful outcomes.
