Prime Minister: A Revolution is Needed in Schools

During the Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan strongly criticized the state of Armenia’s public school system, declaring that schools had served as the primary source of teaching corruption for decades.

Expressing deep dissatisfaction with current educational quality and leadership, he revealed that he instructed the Minister of Education to remove incompetent school principals and staff without exception, emphasizing the urgent need for a complete revolution in the sector.

Citing evaluations from the PISA 2025 report, Pashinyan highlighted severe infrastructure deficits across schools nationwide, particularly the widespread lack of sports facilities and science laboratories for physics, chemistry, and biology. He pointed out that many science educators have never even worked with standard equipment, making international standard instruction impossible.

To ensure basic accessibility and remedy these physical infrastructure gaps, the Prime Minister stated that Armenia must construct a minimum of 700 new modern schools.