A NUMBER OF SOCIAL PROJECTS FOR ASUE STUDENTS SINCE NEW ACADEMIC YEAR
Armenian State University of Economics will carry out a number of social programmes for its students since new academic year. These programmes will focus on several areas, the aim of which is to give good studying, but vulnerable students an opportunity to actualize the right of their education.
The complex of these problems was discussed at ASUE Rectorate Board’s session, and the issues regarding establishment of scholarships of the first year students, providing them with hostel with obtainable prices, the lowest prices at the university canteen service were approved.
So, the first year good studying students (since 4- threshold) will get monthly scholarships since the 2nd semester, but for the whole year, compensating for the months of the first semester.
Monthly scholarship of 5-20 AMD has been established. The project approved at Rectorate Board’s session will be presented at ASUE Scientific Council and after it will be posted fully at ASUE official website. “We should encourage good studying but vulnerable students. So we solve not only a social problems, but encourage the good studying students”, announced ASUE Rector Koryun Atoyan, giving recommendations to the members of Rectorate Board to organize the solutions of these problems as good as possible. He also underlined that this procedure of scholarships would be put into action, at the same time the former system on tuition discounting would be preserved.
The 2nd step directed to solve the students’ social problems is to provide them with hostel with obtainable prices. The University is going to meet its students with repaired and newly furnished hostel. The operation of fully repaired and appropriately furnished University canteen, according to modern requirements, is also directed to solve this problem, the price of food will be very affordable. “The canteen should work with a minimum profit, it’ll only provide self-cover costs”, stressed the Rector.
It is already few years that ASUE Administration awards 50 free tickets of “Tntesaget” sport-health resort to the students with social activism and high academic progress to spend their summer holiday there.
Armenian State University of Economics goes on putting into action new means to solve the students’ social problems. The documents and regulations validating all these changes will be posted soon, the Administration of the University will present it in details on the first days of the new academic year.
ASUE Media and Public Relations Division