YEREVAN. – Students of Yerevan State University Faculty of Armenian Philology today continue their boycotting of classes, this time demanding the resignation of Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Arayik Harutyunyan.

Students oppose the ministry's "Higher Education" bill, which proposes making optional at non-vocational faculties in universities the teaching of "Armenian Language" and "Armenian History" subjects that are now mandatory. They have been boycotting classes since November 6 demanding to revise this controversial point in the bill, and have also started collecting signatures.

Arayik Harutyunyan announced that he was not going to resign.