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The professors of the Yerevan State College of Variety and Jazz Art are indignant with the governmental decision
Professors and students of the Yerevan State College of Variety and Jazz Art are against the government’s decree on joining their college with the Yerevan State College of Culture.
Well-known Armenian singers Suzan Margaryan, Erna Yuzbashyan, Aida Sargsyan, Nune Yesayan, Emma Petrosyan and others are the alumnae of this 30-year-old college.
Popular Armenian variety singer Nadezhda Sargsyan (who even though is not an alumna of this college, but she was the student of the college’s current director Aksel Bakunts) pretends on becoming the director of her teacher’s college (the Yerevan State College of Variety and Jazz Art), because she is currently the head of the Yerevan State College of Culture.
“I have nothing to do with that decree, and I have done nothing to make the Government of Armenia pass such a decree,” Sargsyan told ArmeniaNow. ( Sargsyan’s daughter Emmy is an Armenian candidate for Eurovision 2011.)
Her former teacher Bakunts does not exclude that Sargsyan was aware that the government passed the N 1055 decree on joining these two colleges on August 5.
Professors of the college, including Head of the Folk Department of the College, well-known folk singer Ruben Matevosyan, turned to the Ministry of Culture of Armenia, which said that there was no such decree. However, later the ministry refused receiving them, grounding that the decree had already been passed.
“This is simply an optimal version of management, as a result of which no one will be discharged; the number of 130 students will also be preserved. Simply these two colleges are located in one and the same building, and they must be joined,” Gayane Durgaryan, Press Secretary of the Ministry of Culture told ArmeniaNow.
Even though professors of the Yerevan State College of Variety and Jazz Art, which has a pure cultural orientation, do not understand why they must join a college, where there are specializations in tourism, accounting, and others along with culture, Durgaryan insists these two institutions carry out a similar activity.
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