Workshop in Vanadzor
July 6, 2017
On 1-2 July the workshop was held at Vanadzor State University in the frames of EU-funded "Veritas: Structural Development of the Third Cycle Based on Salzburg Principles" Project with the participation of the working groups from HEIs, as well as RA Ministry of Education and Science and RA National Academy of Sciences. On the first day the Draft of RA Law on Higher Education was discussed in regard with regulations on the third cycle of education: opinions here were various and approaches were different, so the atmosphere of the discussions was tense. On the second day of the workshop PhD supervision experience and practice of partner European HEIs from Sweden, UK, Spain and Germany were presented with further discussions of research supervision issues. Arusyak Harutyunyan, Head of Foreign Affairs Department of ISEC NAS RA, presented PhD supervision principles at HBIGS, University of Heidelberg and made compariosns with "Molecular and Cellular Biology" PhD program of Institute of Molecular Biology of NAS RA. Then participants were divided into working groups to discuss the recommendations made by the European partners after the visit for the external review trying to give right solutions to them.
