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The Faculty of History and Law has a new Dean.
The first session of this year of the Pedagogical University’s Academic Board was launched with the election of the Dean of the Faculty of History and Law.
There were two candidates for the position- the previous Dean of the Faculty, Candidate of History, Associate Professor Edick Gevorgyan and the Associate Professor of History of Armenia on the same Faculty, Candidate of History Edgar Hovhannisyan.
They presented to the Academic Board their pre-election provisions and vision of activities.
During his speech Edick Gevorgyan referred to the academic –methodological research activities, actual problems highlighting creation of new academic connections, external cooperation, particularly with ABA American Barristers’ Association. As for the quality assurance, in addition to a number of different steps he suggested also to draft the Faculty’s internal standards for the annual monitoring and regular reviewing of academic programmes and to apply them in the process of organizing the learning process.
Reviewing the academic programmes, introducing modern subjects, special courses and trainings, distant learning courses on the Faculty by using modern technologies, publication of the yearbook “History and Law”, organization of international conferences, seminar-discussions and extended work with students- this is what Edgar Hovhannisyan, the other candidate promised to fulfill in case of appointment on the position.
As a result, Edgar Hovhannisyan was elected as the Dean of the Faculty of History and Law in a secret ballot.
What is more, the election of the Head of Department of Choreographic Education was also on the agenda. Thus, as a result of voting the only candidate for the given position Karen Gevorgyan was re-elected on the position.
Pedagogical University- a PNCO or a Foundation
During the Academic Board session, the Vice-Rector for General Affairs Armen Tamazyan discussed the organizational and legal status of the University.
“PNCO or a Foundation?” With this question the Vice-Rector introduced the Board members with the main differences between the two organizational-legal statuses.
“As a legal entity both organizations have almost the same liabilities and responsibilities,” he noticed but added that opposite to the PNCOs, foundations have great opportunities to participate in charity programmes in the education sector in RA both as a programme implementer and a beneficiary.
“The organizational-legal status of a foundation will grant the University with a wider scope of autonomy, allowing it to formulate a more operative and better functioning management system,” Armen Tamazyan concluded.
Accordingly, the Academic Board made a decision to submit a petition to the Government about the reorganization of the University.
Chess Educational Research Center at the Pedagogical
The Head of the Internship Department Vahan Sargsyan reported about the work-plan of the Psychology Research Laboratory.
The latter thoroughly introduced the upcoming activities to be conducted by the newly created Chess Educational Research Center, mentioned the necessary conditions of the activity, the expected results, problems and research programmes.
“The creation of the Chess Educational Research Center is aimed at contradictory ideas about the effectiveness of chess, stimulating the connection between innovations and teaching chess at schools, absence of tools for assessment of educational progress, absence of reliable tools for assessment of special need, and slow pace of research internationalization,” he added.
What is more, there were several opinions; the Head of Age and Pedagogical Psychology Vladimir Karapetyan assured that the programme is important for its impact on the educational value of chess, internationalization of the university, as well as its influence on students and other courses.
In his turn, the Rector Rouben Mirzakhanyan also highlighted the privileges of the programme mentioning that the European countries have a lot to learn from Armenia about the chess.
“The Centre will give an opportunity to use the progressive learning methods in various countries”.
The Academic Board approved the work-plan of the Psychological Research Laboratory and the creation of the Chess Educational Research Center. Moreover, it was decided to include the Psychological Research Laboratory into the new Center.
Current issues
The Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Srbouhi Gevorgyan submitted and the Academic Board approved four Candidate theses, and recommended the manuals submitted for publication and the draft Charter of the Research Center.
Further on, the Vice –Rector for Academic and Methodological Affairs Mher Meliq-Bakhshayan submitted and the Board approved the draft on the tuition fees according to the academic degrees and number of admissions per profession in a paid learning system, as well as the amount of the tuition fees.
As a result of voting six Associate Professors and 2 Professors, nominated for academic titles, were selected. And last but not least, as usual the Rector Rouben Mirzakhanyan also congratulated those who had a birthday during the current month.
