A recent statement by a government minister about a possible abolishment of monthly stipends has caused a serious discontent among university students who call such plans “a gross violation of a student’s rights.”

At a roundtable organized on November 17, International Student Day, Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan was challenged with a question about the small size of student stipends and was asked when the government planned to raise these stipends. To this, Ashotyan answered that the government “is generally inclined to scrap student stipends altogether.”