Mr. President also highlighted those educational projects that are carried out in Batumi.

Mr. Mikheil Saakashvili congratulated the students on the upcoming anniversary of Adjara Revolution and wished them success.

Student ID cards

The Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia started working on developing the student ID cards.

Any student can become a holder of the student ID card.

With ID cards, students can benefit from different services including discount in public transport, health care centers and different kinds of institutions.

Quite a few private companies have already expressed the readiness to get involved in the mentioned initiatives.

Student ID cards such as this are being introduced and developed in other Western Countries.

Improvement of the state grant

 On the initiative of the President, the students will be able to re-take General Skills Exams and to improve their state grant or get additional funding.

The students with high GPA will be provided with a full state scholarship, if they wish to take and successfully pass GRE exam.

In the initial stage, Tbilisi State University and Georgian Technical University will be involved in the mentioned program. For this purpose, special funds will be created at state universities. Those students who don’t have enough financial resources to study at the universities will get finances from these funds.

Summer Job

25,000 BA students of authorized higher educational institutions will be employed as a part of the student employment program. Students will be employed in governmental agencies, private sector, legal companies, museums, medical institutions, and municipalities. The students’ summer employment program will be implemented throughout Georgia from July 20 till August 20. The students will get salaries of 500 GEL.

The project, “Summer Job,” aims to facilitate students’ qualification enhancement and capacity development in the fields they are seeking for employment in the future. Additionally, earned income will aid them in funding their own education or enable them to save some for travel, vacations, etc…
The main purpose is to provide students the opportunity to make the most of their summer vocation. Student employment programs such as this are being introduced and developed in other Western Countries.