Dasaran Awards New Generation Schools

On November 28 Dasaran Educational Center hosted the official award ceremony of the “New Generation School 2016-2017” ranking competition, jointly organized by the Ministries of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh, Yerevan Municipality, “New Generation School” NGO, and Dasaran Educational Program. The award ceremony was attended by the RA Minister of Education and Science Levon Mkrtchyan, Head of the Department of Education of the Yerevan City Hall staff Anna Stepanyan, Founding President of Dasaran Educational Program Suren Aloyan, school principals, deputy-principals, teachers and other honorable guests. The “New Generation School” ranking competition of public schools aims to contribute to the increase of computer literacy among public school teachers, to promote the active usage of information technologies at schools and the full and comprehensive utilization of Dasaran’s electronic platform, as well as to make the learning process and school-students’ performance grading more transparent and controllable for parents. The competition covered all the 1.499 schools of Armenia and Artsakh united in the single electronic platform of Dasaran Educational Program. -Dasaran is the first to hold such public school ranking contest, which can promote the accomplishment of new generation schools and the idea of progressively moving forward, - stated Minister Levon Mkrtchyan in his welcome speech. - I am happy that there is such an institution which attempts to help see what’s new, to bring and incorporate the ideology of “new” and “novelty”, - mentioned the Head of the Department of Education of the Yerevan City Hall staff Anna Stepanyan. 61 schools in total received various awards – computers, libraries and certificates, during the official concluding and award ceremony of the “New Generation School 2016-2017” ranking competition. Of all the Armenian and Artsakh schools the following schools have shown the highest efficiency:Basic School No. 1, c. Martuni, Gegharkunik region, Republic of Armenia, Basic school No. 5, c. Abovyan, Kotayk region, Republic of Armenia, v. Zoravan Secondary School, Kotayk region, Republic of Armenia, v. Hayravank Secondary School, Gegharkunik region, Republic of Armenia, v. Horbategh Secondary School, Vayots Dzor region, Republic of Armenia, v. Shamb Secondary School, Syunik region, Republic of Armenia, v. Urekan Secondary School, Kashatagh region, Republic of Artsakh. We are grateful to Global Credit, Menu Group, GG, Ucraft and X-Tech companies and the Russian-Armenian University for standing next to Dasaran in its strife for education system development and modernization.