The 2009-2010 academic year at Calcutta's Philanthropic Academy, better known as the "College" has started after a one monthe summer recess. The school, dating back some 183 years, is one of the oldest still operating in the diaspora. Attending classes at the school are local Armenians and students hailing from Armenia. Iran and Iraq. This year, as in the past, instructors from Armenia have been invited to augment the teaching staff. In 1999 by an order of the Cacutta High Court the existing 1886 Scheme of the Armenian College and Philanthropic Academy was amended and the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church at Etchmiadzin was appointed Administrator of the Armenian College.