YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS: The Government goes on way of the enlargement of higher educational institutions for providing high qualified and efficient education in the Republic of Armenia. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan informed about it at the course of question and answer with the Government in the National Assembly answering independent deputy Edmond Marukyan’s question. “The studies made by the international experts showed that small higher educational institutions do not have the needed resources for providing high qualified education, so we go on way of the enlargement of higher educational institutions,” the Prime Minister stated as reported by “Armenpress”. More...

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Armenia’s minister of education and science Armen Ashotyan discussed issues related to the final stage of opening an international branch campus of the Moscow State University in Yerevan with the rector of the University academician Victor Sadovnichiy in Moscow.
The sides discussed the branch campus prospects and said it will help strengthen educational and scientific ties between the two countries and make the two societies closer to each other.
The minister briefed Sadovnichiy on educational and scientific reforms in Armenia, according to the press office of the ministry.
Academician Sadovnichiy confirmed wish to cooperate with Armenia in scientific and educational field and stressed the Moscow State University is ready to arrange the higher education in line with bets international practice, according to the report. More...

Seize États membres ont réduit leurs dépenses en matière d’éducation entre 2008 et 2011, et six d’entre eux ont continué à appliquer des restrictions budgétaires importantes en 2012, selon le dernier rapport de suivi de l’éducation et de la formation publié aujourd’hui par la Commission européenne. Extraits : Site Europa. Suite...

On 22-25 October, the European Commission, together with Lithuania’s Presidency of the Council of the EU, organised two events in Kaunas: the Eastern Partnership Youth Forum and an information event on Erasmus+ for Eastern Partnership (EaP) universities. 
The Erasmus+ information day was an occasion to present new cooperation opportunities offered to universities from the EU and Eastern Partnership countries as of 2014. Teaching and management staff from the main universities in the region also received a briefing on the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions, which funds researchers’ mobility and training. 
As of 2014, Erasmus+ will bring under a single umbrella all existing EU international higher education programmes (Tempus, Erasmus Mundus, Alfa, Edulink and bilateral programmes with industrialised countries). With this integration, the EU wishes to bring more coherence and synergy between the existing programmes and better align intra-EU and international cooperation and mobility. In a globalised university world, there is no longer any reason to apply different approaches and procedures to cooperation within and outside the EU. More...