It is noteworthy that UNESCO has declared 2013 the jubilee year of Ekvtime Takaishvili. The current year coincides with 150th anniversary of Ekvtime Takaishvili’s day of birth. The Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia is proposing two types of competitions to the schools: A project competition: “What we know about Ekvtime Takaishvili” and a competition of blogs on the topic of Ekvtime Takaishvili’s biography.
Today, Nada Marasovic, Deputy Representative, UNICEF and Philippe Testot-Ferry, UNICEF Education Advisor held a meeting with Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia Aluda Goglichidze and other representatives from the Ministry.
The Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia has launched a new project “School Accessibility”. The aim of the program is to provide schools with buses for those pupils who have to walk long distances to reach schools.