Distribution of examination cards for Unified Entry,
Graduate Records and Teachers’ Certification exams has started. 12th graders will be able to receive the cards at
their schools while high school graduates of previous year along with teachers
will get the examination cards at regional Education Resource Offices.
Deputy Minister of Education and Science of
Georgia, Irine Kurdadze, Deputy Governor of Imereti Region, Giga Shushania,
Mayor of Kutaisi, Giorgi Tevdoradze, presented 200 schoolchildren of Imereti public
schools with personal computers.
Russian expert Larisa Burakova got familiar with current education
reforms and visited “Future Classroom” at 1st experimental school;
vocational college “Ikarosi” and Teacher’s House.
The
chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia, Davit Bakradze and the Minister of
Education and Science of Georgia, Dimitri Shashkini, presented 150 tenth
graders of Tbilisi public schools with personal computers.
Minister of Education and Science of Georgia Dimitri Shashkini met with
the Russian expert and writer Larisa Burakova. Burakova is the author of
the book “Why does it work in Georgia?”. The book published 2 years
ago, covers successful Georgian reforms, Russian-Georgian relationship
and achievements of Georgian government. The book is now being
translated into Ukrainian and will be published in Ukraine soon.
Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia organized the contest
“Introduce your country to tourists” for the school students of basic
and secondary education levels.
The Prime Minister of
Georgia visited the vocational college “Spektri” and met the prospective
students who had registered for the institution as a part of a second phase of
voucher funding system initiated by the President. Mr. Nika Gilauri together
with these persons saw different shops located in the college.
From Tbilisi International
Airport Terminal, the sealed tests of Unified Entry and Graduate Record
Examinations have been distributed to Tbilisi and regional police offices.
A new examination model is
being worked out in the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia. Today
working group members of the Strategic board have discussed a new model of the
unified national examination 8+1 initiated by the president of Georgia.
Ministry of Education and Science
of Georgia has activated the second phase of distributing vocational education
1000 GEL worth vouchers. At this time, 1500 volunteers will be given a chance
to study at vocational education institutions.
Qualified
workforce will be trained for sewing sector in the vocational college “Iberia”
located in Kutaisi. The initiative will be implemented with support of the
Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia and Economic Prosperity Initiative (EPI), USAID.
The
Minister, Dimitri Shashkini, introduced a new system of exams to the
journalists gathered in the Prime Times office. A new model of exams - 8+1 was
initiated by the President of Georgia.