First
Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Koka Seperteladze held a briefing on
the State Education Grants.
According
to Koka Seperteladze, registration begins for the students who passed Unified Entry
Exams and meet the requirements for participation in the social program.
Education
grant will be issued for certain first level students of higher academic
education or higher professional educational programs in 2010-2011 academic
years in the scope of the social program. Around 800 students will be financed.
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We will issue grants for the refugees from occupied territories, students who
are the children of the people,who died in the war, invalids, members of the
large families, students from the vulnerable families and representatives of
ethnic minorities as well” – announced Koka Seperteladze. Grants gained by the
students of these categories will be 100% supplemented. Students of certain
categories, who were enrolled at the natural science and technical specialties
and could not gain the grant, will be financed by the initiative of the
President.
In
the framework of the social program, 1.073 000 Gel is allocated for the
students who were enrolled in accredited higher educational institutions in
2010-2011 academic years.
Who
will be able to gain funding in the scope of the social program?
Students, who were enrolled in the higher educational
institution according to the Unified Entry Exams and could not obtain the full
amount of the grant, or gained the partial grant and are included in one of
these following categories:
- 180 students, who studied during the last two years and
received the complete general education approval document of the general
educational institution located on the occupied territory according to the
Georgian law on Occupied Territories (hereinafter occupied territory) or the
students whose complete general education was recognized according to the rule,
defined by MES. Students, who studied
on the occupied territory two years earlier before August 7, 2008 and
receive the complete general education
approval document out of the borders of occupied territory, from:
- Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, including Azhara
municipality;
- Tskhinvali region (territories of the former South
Ossetia region), including Qurta, Eredvi and Akhalgori municipalities;
- Village of Perevi of Sachkhere municipality.
- 45 students, who are the children of the people who died
in the war for the territorial integrity of Georgia or the people who were
lost.
- 6 students with sharply expressed limited abilities.
Students who were enrolled in higher
educational institution as the result of Unified Entry Exam, gained the full or
partial grant in the scope of the social program or could not gain the full or
partial grant according to the Unified Entry Exams but were enrolled in higher
educational institution at the following educational programs: engineering,
agrarian, exact sciences, natural sciences, informational technologies and are
included in one of the following categories:
- 153
students, who studied during the last three years and obtained the complete
general education approval document of the general educational institutions
located in the mountainous regions or the regions of ecologic migration;
- 15
students, who studied during the last three years and obtained the complete
general education approval document of Azerbaijanian general educational
institutions.
- 15
students, who studied during the last three years and obtained the complete
general education approval document of Armenian general educational
institutions.
- 2
students, who are descendants of the population of Samtskhe-Javakheti who were
deported from Georgia during the Soviet regime;
- 20 orphan
students (without parents);
- 20
students, who are from the large family (four and more children);
- 20
students, whose families are registered in the unified base of vulnerable
families and the rating score of their families’ amounts to or is less than
70,000.
If the sum envisaged in the program will not be fully
distributed to the defined categories, it will be distributed:
- To the students, who are the children of the people who
died in the war for the territorial integrity of Georgia or the people who were
lost and they were enrolled according to
the Unified Entry Exams and could not gain the full grant of gained the partial
grant, including 2009-2010, 2008-2009, 2007-2008 academic years in the scope of
the social program;
- Students with sharply expressed limited abilities.
In order to gain the state funding in the scope of the social
program, student should provide application. The form of application and the
list of documents that should be provided are approved by the order of the
Minister of Education and Science of Georgia №656, August 16, 2010.
