12.01.2010
The President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili held a meeting with the teachers and students of Adjara Region in Batumi №3 school and discussed new initiatives to be carried out within the education system for the years of 2010-2011.  These initiatives are:

1. Achieving a high level of student attendance  at schools through

• attaching a greater importance to the high school diploma,
• obtaining a minimum competence score in 10 compulsory subjects  including in information technology , mathematics and physics, to get a high school diploma  through passing the exams at the National Examination  Centers ;
• making the student’s attendance as one of the core components of students overall grading;
• setting up a school self -government bodies;
• promoting school Olympiads.

     2. Increasing  professional skills of teacher through;

• starting the teachers certification process on a voluntary basis from July, 2010,
•  raising the salaries of certified teachers,
• encouraging  teachers professional development from the part of  the state,
• enhancing institute of the mentors (teachers who are dealing with interns).

3. Improvement of the Infrastructure through

• engaging the local governance bodies in developing the infrastructure and rehabilitating schools, (successful example of Adjara region);
•  transferring 20 million GEL from the central budget to the local budget;
•  renovating school cafeterias –introducing outsourcing mechanism;
• arranging school laboratories and libraries.

4. Improving the  National Curriculum  through

• introducing the sports classes instead of physical culture classes;
• delivering computer science classes at schools;
• developing  a culture studies as a discipline;
•  promoting military-patriotic teachings at schools .

5. Developing  the standards for school textbooks/manuals through

• requiring strict attention to approval of textbooks
• creating standards for school editions;

• reducing cost of the school textbooks and forbidding their frequent changes.

6. Developing a safe school concept through

• introducing the institution of school guards
• starting division of schools in three  levels in big cities,
• introducing the credit card system at schools to prohibiting cash  flow in schools.