Private institutes of higher education cheat students over resuming new licenses

Armenia's Ministry of Education and Science will continue monitoring the activities of higher educational institutions which may result in further suspension of the licenses.

In a press conference today Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Ara Avetisyan, said that the process will be carried out on a phase-by-phase basis so that "no single student suffers" from it.

"The activities of all the institutions of higher education that do not meet the requirement will be suspended," said he.

Earlier the ministry suspended the licenses of 14 institutions of higher education which left the future of about 2000 students uncertain.

According to Mr Avetisyan some of those students have already applied to the ministry to replace them to other universities, but he failed to mention any exact figure.

Asked that some of those shut-down institutes of higher education misinform people, saying they will soon resume their activities after they are given new licenses, Mr Avetisyan said that the ministry received such information only from the University of Management.

"The management of those institutes says that it has eliminated the shortcomings, but if that were the case, the ministry would allow them to resume their activities," explained he.