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“In a changing world, knowledge and creativity have become a guarantee of human capital development, economic and cultural sustainable progress. This belief is the basis for the RA Draft Education Development Strategy 2030,” the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Vahram Dumanyan noted during the regular sitting of the RA NA Standing Committee on Science, Education, Culture, Diaspora, Youth and Sport convened on September 26, presenting the draft law on Approving the RA Draft Education Development Strategy 2030. According to the Minister, the strategy has been under discussion for a long time and is a requested document.

It was noted that the need to adopt the draft is due to the requirement of Article 4.4 of the RA Law on Education, according to which, the organizational basis of the state policy in the field of education is the draft education development strategy, which, as the Government presented, is approved by the National Assembly. He said that the previous draft education development strategy was adopted in 2011 for 2011-2015.

Vahram Dumanyan emphasized that the center of the program is the person, and the expansion of his or her abilities is a way to develop and realize the human capital. At the same time, the program proclaims the importance of the global competitiveness of RA educational services and products, aiming to form a stable agenda for the international integration of the educational system, the expansion of opportunities for the export of Armenian educational services and products, as well as will also contribute to the repatriation and integration of a large number of Armenians through receiving education in Armenia. The most significant conceptual provisions of the document are, in particular, accessible and affordable educational institutions, all children enrolled in school will be enrolled in preschool programs for at least one year, nursery services will operate in all enlarged communities, all schools will have affordable buildings that are properly furnished and equipped with modern equipment, meet sanitary and safety standards, high-quality internet access, availability of modern research infrastructure, gymnasiums, innovatively furnished individual and team work spaces of physical and digital, science, technology, engineering, mathematics and other laboratories and libraries will be provided.

In his co-report, the Committee Chair Sisak Gabrielyan stated that the above-mentioned document was one of the main drafts, which was also required by the opposition. According to him, these are the main directions in which our country will move in the field of education. “The draft records the main educational political direction that we have adopted and are pushing forward,” the Committee Chair underlined.

The draft law was endorsed.

At the suggestion of the author, the Committee postponed the debate of the legislative package on Making Addendum to the Law on Audiovisual Media authored by the NA deputy Gevorg Papoyan for up to two months.