04/03/2019 13:13
Talks about dissolving Shirak State University circulating: Gagik Hambaryan
The first independent and transparent elections of rector of Shirak State University unfortunately failed with neither of the candidates having gathered 50+1 votes, lecturer Gagik Hambaryan said, speaking to Aysor.am.
He said that candidates Andranik Sargsyan received 8, Lusine Fljyan 6 votes and nine ballots have been recognized invalid.
Hambaryan said one of the reasons of the failure was deputy education and science minister Lusine Arakelyan, who is also member of the Board of Trustees and who behaved rather strange.
The lecturer stressed that she had delivered a speech against one of the candidates, accusing him of using the names of the education and science minister and NA chairman but did not present any proofs of it.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees Levon Barseghyan behaved strange too, accusing the other candidate Lusine Fljyan in copyrighting.
Hambaryan said all this had a significant impact on the results of the elections, adding that the ministry seems not to want Shirak University to have a rector and this is the reason why the elections failed.
The speech of the acting rector Yervand Serobyan was also very strange, the lecturer said.
“Being the acting rector for 9,5 months he has not undertaken any steps to regulate the moral-psychological atmosphere in the university or which is the most important has not initiated the process of accrediting the university. Serobyan earlier stated that if the elections of the rector were to take place, let them be after accreditation, while he did not nothing for it,” the lecturer said.
Hambaryan also stressed that talks are being circulated in Gyumri that the elections of rector have been failed on purpose aimed at dissolving Shirak’s State University.
“Talks are circulated that they want to dissolve Shirak State University and unite all four branches of Armenian universities in Gyumri with the Shirak State University and create a new university and appoint an authority-sponsored person,” Hambaryan concluded.