Ayb Foundation representatives in the University of Cambridge

The Ayb Educational Foundation continues its strategic partnership with the University of Cambridge. Aram Pakhchanian, chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Ayb Foundation, and Fr. Mesrop Aramian, director of strategic programs, visited Cambridge to discuss opportunities for further development of the Araratian Baccalaureate (AB) program and for the expansion of the number of accredited subjects.

The accreditation procedure of the AB Examination Center by Cambridge was also discussed. As part of that process, STEM and humanities specialists who compose, check and evaluate examination tasks will undergo training, and a new examination system in accordance with international standards will be introduced and constantly monitored by Cambridge.

The Araratian Baccalaureate is an academically rigorous Armenian-language educational program that has been developed in Armenia by the Ayb Educational Foundation in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and has international recognition. Ayb’s cooperation with Cambridge not only contributes to the AB improvement but also to the improvement of the quality and competitiveness of education in Armenia.

Along with the AB՛s prospective development issues, another important topic of discussion was the Identity and Values course, which was fully introduced in the AB 2023 curriculum as a value-based component and is now a mandatory subject for all Ayb 10th-12th graders. The main topics of the program include personal and collective identity, epistemology and axiology. The main purpose is to develop students’ cognitive and self-analytical skills, help them in clarifying their own values in the contexts of national and universal values. The Identity and Values subject ​​has attracted much interest at Cambridge due to its value-based and worldview-expanding components.