In the current academic year, the educational rights of about 6000 students from Artsakh remain violated. As a result of the large-scale Azerbaijani-Turkish military aggression against Artsakh in 2020, 1,613 teachers were left without a place of residence and were forced to start the academic year outside of their own school. In a conversation with Aravot, the Minister of Education and Science of Artsakh Lusine Gharakhanyan said that the educational rights of about 3,000 students who went to classes in Shushi also continue to be violated.
“Now the government is solving the issues of allocating space for those students in new educational buildings, but after the war we tried to organize the educational processes. In fact, as a result of the war we also had great scientific losses – laboratories, material, and technical bases. All that was left in Shushi. I am referring to the newly built building of Shushi Technological University, with laboratory equipment, rich material, and technical base,” the minister stated.
According to Lusine Gharakhanyan, the unique initial professional-vocational institution in the region, Yeznik Mozyan College, with its property, as well as the material and technical bases of Gyurjyan Institute of Applied Arts and Humanities College, two large schools with more than 6,000 students, remained under enemy control in Shushi. “A great cultural, educational, scientific world has been occupied in Shushi,” said the minister. According to her, in the regions of Artsakh occupied by Azerbaijan, there is also a huge library fund of 618,000 books.
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