The University City equipped with the largest, state-of-the-arts infrastructure and the newest laboratories in the Caucasus region will be built in Kutaisi.
The specialists of the International Technical University of Munich (TUM International) will develop the Kutaisi University Complex development plan, academic and research programs together with the Georgian side. Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia - Teimuraz Murgulia and Managing Director of International Technical University of Munich - Daniel Gottschald signed the relevant document today.
For enhancement of pupils’ motivation, the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia carries out certain projects or programs, including “Subprogram of Medals of Successful Pupils”, aiming to encourage pupils’ academic achievements and to present successful pupils.
Promotion of realization of the vocational education potential was discussed at the second forum of Education Policy, organized by UNICEF Georgia, World Bank and TSU International School of Economics (ISET).
According to the order of the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, the rule of external observation was approved within the framework of commencement of teachers’ activities, professional development and career advancement scheme. The rule regulates the processes related to external observation in order to observe the lessons conducted by the senior teacher. Registration for external observations will be announced by September next year.
Vocational education teachers in the direction of construction and tourism were on study visit in Slovakia. The project “European Teacher” was initiated and organized by the Information Center on NATO and EU. The teachers were selected through competition.
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University celebrated 95th anniversary of famous Georgian historian Mariam Lortkipanidze today with scientific conference – “Mariam Lortkipanidze - 95”.
For the first time this year Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service are implementing the joint scholarship program „Rustaveli-DAAD“.
Board of Directors of public and private schools meet every month and discuss the issues that are urgent for all schools of Georgia, including the problematic issues that unite the certain schools; exactly discussing each of them and seeking ways to solve them is the purpose of the Board. Subsequent session was held in Tbilisi Public School № 117 and was led by the Vice Prime Minister of Georgia, Minister of Education and Science Aleksandre Jejelava.
Free lessons were successfully implemented in Tbilisi 60th Public School, within the frameworks of which pupils carried out the projects - “Decoupage i.e. renewal of old things” and “Creation of Hand-made Books”. They breathed new life into the old, damaged and useless things, renewed them and brought them back to their functions, made plots, illustrations and constructed little books with their own hands. Lia Gigauri, Deputy Minister of Education and Science was introduced to the activities of the pupils and she reviewed their work made within the scope of the project.
Under the initiative and by organization of the coalition “Education for All” and the National Center for Teacher Professional Development of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, the National Teacher Prize campaign and its selection contest is underway with s slogan - “Future is in Education”. This initiative is carried out for the first time in Georgia and represents a part of the global campaign “The Global Teacher Prize“, aiming at promotion of the teacher’s profession.