YEREVAN. – The university students demanding the resignation of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Minister Arayik Harutyunyan have started marching through the streets of Yerevan (PHOTOS).

The protesters are urging people to join them. They said they had information that there was pressure on students. The organizers also noted that the doors of the medical university were shut to prevent its students from joining the march.

Students from the Yerevan State University Faculties of Armenian Philology and History have boycotted classes.

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.

And ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party youth union representatives have resumed their  sit-in after a two-day break, and demanding Arayik Harutyunyan's resignation.

Harutyunyan had announced that he was not going to resign.