A new Draft Law on Higher Education and Science has ignited public debate in Armenia. While introducing necessary reforms, experts fear certain amendments could threaten the core principles of the higher education system, including academic autonomy, regional equity and free competition.
Sargis Karapetyan, the CEO of the Union of Advanced Technologies (UATE) joins us to discuss the various components of the organization, including education, outreach, policymaking, and the DigiTec Expo. Sargis also spoke about the importance of expanding the scope of DigiTec to include greater participation from the international tech community.
This article focuses on several significant challenges encountered by Armenian university students studying law, examining both the overarching concerns regarding the delivery of legal education and specific deficiencies within the system.
In Part II of a two-part series examining Armenia’s pivot to the West, Gaidz Minassian examines the question of the reliability of the partnership with Americans and Europeans.
Samson Avetian, the founder and CEO of Eqwefy, joins us to speak about how the platform they’re building is helping enable non-traditional investors to invest in Armenian start-ups. Samson also shared his thoughts on the importance of educating society on personal finance, and encouraging more investing throughout society.
In 2022, the Armenian government introduced a voluntary teacher certification program. Teachers who pass with high scores receive higher salaries, however, problems persist in the process.
Mellisa, a six-year-old from the village of Harav in besieged Artsakh, should have started first grade this year. However, she will not be attending school, and neither will her four older siblings.
In the 19th century, Armenian women began dismantling stereotypes about them that were being published in the Armenian press of Tbilisi. Sofya Bayanduryants, founder of the first Armenian kindergartens, was among them.
Suzanna Shamakhyan, Vice President of Strategic Programming at the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST), joins us to discuss the organization’s initiatives to improve education and science in Armenia. She breaks down how the current poor state of the country’s education system can be viewed as an opportunity to pilot innovative new solutions. We also discussed FAST’s new Generation AI program, which aims to bring artificial intelligence education to high schools in Armenia.
Davit Buniatyan is the co-founder and CEO of Activeloop, a data infrastructure company that specializes in building optimized data lakes for deep learning. Davit discusses the importance of optimized data infrastructures for deep learning and how the MLOps ecosystem is evolving with the rise of foundational models such as GPT. We also explore the exciting future of AI, including the role of multimodal models and how they will shape the landscape of deep learning.
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