Goris State Agricultural College after professor Yeritsyan
OUR MISSION
- To prepare qualified specialists in the field of agriculture according to changing labour market needs
- To contribute to the development of civil and intellectual qualities in a person
- To provide alternative financing opportunities through paid education services, entrepreneurship and other activities within its statute
Long-term goals of the College :
- To ensure national general interests in agricultural education, adapting educational programs to the socio-economic development requirements of the country;
- To create an educational environment which contributes to the formation of the knowledge, skills and abilities of students in line with the changing demands of the labor market and to ensure collaboration with social partners
- To improve the efficiency of secondary vocational and pre-vocational/ vocational education and quality assurance
- To ensure accountability, publicity and transparency of the activities
- To develop the quality of education according to the changing labour market needs
- To ensure the access to education
- To ensure the compatibility with international educational standards
- To prepare citizens capable of bringing their own practices and decisions in line with national interests within the framework of the State Education Development Strategy
- To promote the dissemination of knowledge and advanced information technologies among the population
- To create a student-centered college environment and to contribute to the personal development of the future specialists by raising social activism and civic self-awareness
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Goris State Agricultural College of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport is the oldest agricultural educational institution in the region. Today the institution is 88 years old. It was founded by the government of Republic of Armenia in 1931.Like in all Soviet countries so in Zangezur province rural collective farms were massively created which required agricultural specialists.
The need for agricultural specialists became the basis for the establishment of the college.
Initially, the college had only a zootechnical department and was called a Zootechnical College. Subsequent reforms in agriculture made the need for the expansion of the list of proffessions, new departments of agronomy, veterinary and horticulture were opened.
1959 year
In 1959 the distance learning faculty in a number of professions was opened and in 1961 the college had its first graduates. The faculty aimed at providing agricultural education without being cut off from the work. In Soviet times there used to be more than 350 students in the faculty. Now this number is limited to hundred.
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