Some Professors Refuse to Teach at YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS

Today, Vache Kalashyan, Deputy Head of the Civil Service Office of the Prime Minister's Staff, and Rouzanna Azroyan, a judge at the Administrative Court of the Republic of Armenia, announced their refusal to exercise their right to teach at the Yerevan State University of Economics (YEREVAN STATE ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY).

This information was shared on the Facebook page of the initiative "For Quality Education." The two have expressed their support for the former acting rector, Ruben Hayrapetyan.

Recall that Koruyun Atoyan, the rector of the Yerevan State University of Economics, was dismissed from his position in December of last year per his own application. Atoyan had served as rector since 2011 and is a Doctor of Economics and professor.

Ruben Hayrapetyan, who is a lecturer at the same university, was appointed as the acting rector of the YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS, but was recently accused by the university's lecturers of plagiarism.

The acting rector had insulted the university's lecturers, leading them to declare five years later that their former student, now the temporary head of the university, had obtained his doctoral degree through plagiarism and fraud, prompting them to turn to the court.

Interestingly, the first instance court has accepted the lawsuit of 24 lecturers against the acting rector of the YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS, Ruben Hayrapetyan.