The Board of Directors of public and private schools is set up with new members once in every three months, and new members are elected by the directors themselves. The regular session of the renewed Board was held today, which was traditionally opened by the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia. At the beginning of the meeting, Mr. Aleksandre Jejelava talked about all the important novelties and then the members of the Board presented the issues provided for under the agenda, each of the issues and the ways of their solution were discussed.

Schedule for the graduation exams of the 2016-2017 academic years (12^th grade) is as follows:

The Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia starts improvement of the situation existing in school canteens and regulation of this field - the problem has not been solved for many years in this regard. According to the specialists, unhealthy food products are available for schoolchildren in the school canteens, threatening the health of the young people.

A new model for training of vocational education teachers will be launched for the first time in vocational education, which is based on the best experience of Switzerland in this area and envisages introduction of additional university programs i.e. minors for acquisition of profession of the vocational education teachers. The first minors will be introduced in Ilia State University for the teachers of agricultural field. Afterwards this experience can be extended to other universities in Georgia as well.

Based on the modern international experience, the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia introduced a new project “Work for Home Day” in a pilot mode for the first time in the public sector.