Education Ministry shutting down 14 universities in Armenia

On August 12 Armenia's Ministry of Education reached a decision to close down 14 universities in Armenia.

The Commission of the Licensing of the Implementation of Educational Programs at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia held its next-in-turn session and discussed the results of the monitoring conducted by the working groups formed upon Minister Armen Ashotyan's decree.

The Commission listened to all the clarifications of the representatives of the organizations that implement higher vocational education programs and decided by a secret vote to annul the license of 14 private universities.

Among them are also some well known ones such as Russian-Armenian Contemporary Institute of Humanities, Yerevan University of Management, Yerevan University of Culture, etc?