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STUDENTS CLAIM ECONOMIC CRISIS AFFECTS THEIR WALLETS

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Armenian students face difficulties in paying tuition fees because of the global economic crisis. Most of them say the fees are sent by their relatives working abroad.



“We no longer receive money. I wonder what is to become of us. We have to pay the tuition fee before the interim exams otherwise we shall be denied participation,” said Varduhy Petrosyan, who studies at the Department of Sociology, Yerevan State University.


Future physicist Arthur Abrahamyan is also concerned. His father hasn’t sent money this year. “He says he’s not paid for his work. The employer promises to pay salaries when he has money. My father is between two fires as he doesn’t know whether to return to Armenia or stay there,” says Arthur.


Many students say the university administration had better meet them halfway and extend the deadline for payments.


We know that we are obliged to pay fees. But what can our parents do if they have been made redundant?” said future philologist Varditer Ghazaryan.


A1+ was informed at the university that the issue of extending the terms of payments hasn’t been put under consideration, as they think the economic crisis is not perceived in Armenia and students can pay tuition fees in due time.