Nikol Pashinyan: Academic City to further strengthen the formula for  predicting the human future

ArmInfo.   Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan participated in the "Academic City Armenia: International Forum of Knowledge" conference and delivered a speech titled "Predicting the Future." 

According to the government press service, speaking about the  strategic significance of the Academic City, Prime Minister Pashinyan  noted: "Education is a platform for predicting the individual's  future, and the "Academic City" project is actually to further  strengthen the individual's future prediction system and transform  the individual's future prediction system into the state's future  prediction system. And in my opinion, the "Academic City" is the  project that will further strengthen the formula for predicting the  individual's future."

Nikol Pashinyan emphasized that a very important component of the  "Academic City" project is high schools. "We plan to have a high  school of arts, a high school of technology, high schools in all  directions, the idea of which is to give the most outstanding  children of the Republic the opportunity to be closer to higher and  postgraduate education at the intermediate stage," the Prime Minister  said, adding that every child, without exception, is an exceptional  talent, and the role and mission of the education system is to  discover and develop the child's talent.  "Life itself is a learning  process, and therefore our task is to make that learning process, the  education process more institutional, more purposeful, more informed.  And the same applies to the life of the country, and my prediction is  that the Academic City will become a gravitational center for the  life of the Republic of Armenia, which will predetermine the course  of life in the Republic of Armenia at the individual level, group  level, community level and state level."

Next, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan answered the questions of those  present. Answering the question of how he assesses the current state  of the Armenian education system and its development prospects, the  Prime Minister noted: "The state of the education system in the  Republic of Armenia is bad, but the good news is that we have a clear  plan and program on how to change this situation. Let's go and see,  for example, the issue related to the social status of teachers.  Today, when visiting the regions of the Republic, I am pleased to  learn that there are already teachers in the regions who receive a  salary of 500,000 drams, 450,000, 400,000 drams, but this does not  mean that we have achieved our dream, because we have agreed that  voluntary certification must be repeated in cycles."

Regarding the question of what role the Academic City will play in  transforming the educational ecosystem of Armenia and fully realizing  the potential of young specialists, Nikol Pashinyan answered: "The  Academic City should be an acceleration center of development thought  in Armenia, a gravitational center around which events should take  place." According to the Prime Minister, one of the important  features of the Academic City is to bring the workplace closer to the  potential student, which will give them the opportunity to do  internships right on the spot; it will also be the number one center  for intellectual entertainment. "This is very important. This will  not be another fenced-off project, where only those who are either  students or lecturers have access," said Nikol Pashinyan. The Prime  Minister emphasized that the Academic City is a project of a  completely different logic, so that both students and lecturers have  the opportunity to fully live and work there.