On December 21th,2018, House of Radio hosted the presentation of the survey results conducted by Public Opinion Research Center of the Public Television and Radio company, in September-December, on “Measuring tolerance and social phenomenon  among students in Armenian higher educational institutions”: the Impact of Media on their Formation”.

The Center, attaching importance to the role of youth in all spheres of public life, was aimed at studying the role of the active youth in the context of contemporary developments and the attitude of students on a number of social phenomena, clarifying the positive and negative impact of the media on the formation of youth.

Representatives of Armenian Higher Educational institutions, including YSUIB, were invited to the presentation of the survey results. The meeting was attended YSU Ijevan Branch coordinator of the work with graduates and external stakeholders E. Gharayan. The meeting was important for YSUIB, as the Branch students also took part in the survey, and although the results were presented in a general way, without mentioning specific university, the results  present also our students’ opinions on the most important problem of tolerance and perception of society and  intolerance in contemporary media.

The organizers of the meeting mentioned that 713 students aged 17-25 from Armenian universities (including regional universities) took part in the survey. Different methods have been selected for the survey: quantitative, comparable pairs, possible actions in imaginary situations, judgement and agreements , and so on.

The students brought about their definition of tolerance and intolerance, mentioned their actions of tolerance in the presented situations, made judgments about a number of issues, expressed their attitude, making choices among the proposed values, mentioned the programs and films that raise the issue of tolerance and intolerance.

The meeting ended with an active discussion, with a number of issues highlighted in the research results, in particular whether the values should be clearly defined,whether tolerance and intolerance are clearly perceived in society, whether the media’s actions are clear , and whether it implements its function of the educator, and so on.

As a conclusion, the participants put forward the idea that there was still a need for a new investigation to fully understand the problems. Nevertheless, it was indisputable that the priority of any university is to give students comprehensive knowledge, skills and abilities, educate them in the spirit of moral, national and universal values.

See live broadcast of the meeting here.

 On December 21, 2018, YSU Ijevan Branch hosted a training course on “Interactive methods as a way of forming professional beliefs”, organized by the Advanced Teaching Exchange and Young Lecturers Support Center, at the initiative of the coordinator of YSUIB professorial staff training, Nara Ghazaryan.

Since December,2018, the Center has launched training courses for YSUIB faculty young lecturers (up to 35 years old), aimed at improving the teaching staff qualification through the discovery and dissemination of advanced experience in the Branch, as well as teaching and evaluation methods and introducing the latest educational technologies in the educational process.

The training on “Interactive methods as a way of forming professional beliefs” was conducted by  Julietta Gyulamiryan,PhD, lecturer of YSUIB Pedagogy and Psychology Department.

The training was attended by not only young, but also experienced lecturers of YSUIB.

Lecturer J. Gulamiryan with interactive methods, memory exercises, presented practical approaches to student-oriented approaches and shared her advanced experience.

The training was in an engaging and interactive atmosphere.

 On December 20^th, 2018, Student Scientific Society (SSS) of YSUIB Faculty of Economics  organized already the third intellectual game, attended by first and third-year students of “Finance” and “Economics” specialties.

Jury members were Tigranuhi Tirabyan, 3rd year student of “Economics” specialty and Luiza Madatyan, 2nd year student of “Finance” specialty.

The game consisted of 4 rounds. The first round included 10 professional questions with a selective answer.

The second, the “Hidden Words” round, the participants must find professional terms in a mixed-text table.

 The third round included logical questions related to their profession.

In the last, fourth stage, the participants had to solve the economic crossword.

After the strong competition, the “Economist” team became the winner with 36 points (Ghazaryan Sevada, Khachatryan Sose, Ohanyan Arshak), and awarded with a diploma.

On December 18^th, 2018, at YSUIB Faculty of Humanities, for 2nd-year students of “Foreign Language and Literature”, “Armenian Language and Literature” specialties, Ani Kostandyan, lecturer of the Department of Tourism Management and Cultural Studies, organized an open lesson dedicated to the “Armenian culture”.

The lesson was attended by Acting Dean of the Faculty of Humanities K. Poghosyan, Assistant of the Department of Tourism Management and Cultural Studies, A. Ulikhanyan, the administrative staff of the university and students .

During the lesson, the lecturer  presented Armenian culture stages, Armenian culture in the Ararat kingdom (Urartu), during the Hellenistic period, the Armenian medieval culture (5-14 centuries), armenian culture of 15-18th centuries, Armenian culture in the new era (19th-20th centuries), Armenian culture in the 20th century and after the independence. Another item of discussion was the Armenian Renaissance.

The students performed literary and musical performances  presenting poems and songs based on Armenian classics (Narekatsi, Kuchak, Sayat-Nova, Komitas, Metsarents, Sahyan, Sevak and others).

At the end of the lesson, the participants watched a film about  family.

 On December 18^th, 2018, at YSU Ijevan Branch Faculty of Economics, a seminar-discussion on RA monetary policy was held, conducted by the representatives of the Central Bank of Armenia, Head of Monetary Policy Department Vahagn Grigoryan, Director of Dilijan Training and Research Center Armen Nurbenkyan, Economist Arthur Ghalachakhyan of the Economic Research Department.

It was organized in partnership with the Director of Dilijan  Research Center Armen Nurbenkyan and YSUIB Faculty of Economics, Student Scientific Society and Student Council.

During the  seminar-discussion, the essence of the policy of the Central Bank of Armenia was thoroughly discussed. It was noted that until 2006, the CB  aimed at monetary aggregates. Further research has shown that this method has many problems and low efficiency, so in 2006 the transition to inflation targeted.

Another item of discussion was the issue of unemployment in Armenia, the level of premium inflation, as well as public expectations of inflation. The summary of each quarterly survey revealed clearly that public expectations for inflation in 2001-2016 were high enough (about 65 percent of respondents had inflation expectations), and expectations of inflation in 2016-2018 are approaching 10 percent with some fluctuations.

The seimar-discussion was in an engaging and interactive atmosphere and the participants asked questions about not only monetary policy, but also  other sectors of  economy.