Back to school: Georgia starts year with up to 700 renovated schools
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2019-2020 academic year has started throughout Georgia today, with 700 fully or partly renovated schools.
The academic year has begun in more than 2,000 public schools in the country, while the process was delayed for 19 schools due to renovation work there.
The 19 schools, located in both Tbilisi and in the regions, will open to pupils at the end of the month.
This year Georgia has up to 55,000 first graders. 48,254 of them have been registered in public and 6,067 in private schools,” the Georgian Education Ministry reports.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia says that modern and renovated school infrastructure should be available for all students around the country and the renovation process should not take years to complete.
A total of 7 billion GEL (about $2.61b/€2.29b) will be spent on the construction of new schools and the renovation of old ones, says the Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze.
A new adult education system aimed at implementing short-term programmes to train and retrain students will be launched in Georgia, announces the Georgian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has explained at a special briefing earlier today how the government intends to spent one fourth of the state budget on educational purposes.
The World Bank will allocate €90 million for the Georgian education system.
Children of Georgian peacekeepers participating in international missions were taken in first class by the friends of their fathers.
All public schools in Tbilisi and other big cities in Georgia will be equipped with cameras in 2020, the Georgian Education Ministry has reported earlier today.
Georgia has allocated 40 mln GEL ($14.3 mln/€13 mln) for 2020 for the reconstruction of schools in the whole country, says the Ministry of Infrastructure.
A total of 220 million GEL (about $72,358,900) will be spent on the construction and renovation of schools throughout Georgia by fall 2021, said Georgian Infrastructure Minister Maia Tskitishvili.
Construction of a new school has ended in the village of Laila, Tsageri municipality, says the Municipal Development Fund.
The Georgian Government has plans to announce a tender for the construction of 80 public schools and renovation of 320 others across the country between September-October, the Government Administration said on Wednesday, in comments on a meeting of Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili with education authorities to discuss the ₾1 billion ($357 mln) project.
A total of ₾1 billion ($354 mln) will be spent on construction and renovation of 800 schools in Georgia over the next four years, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced on Monday.
Georgian education minister Mikheil Chkhenkeli on Tuesday said the address of the country’s prime minister Irakli Garibashvili at the United Nations education summit on Monday had “once again confirmed that education is among the government’s strategic priorities”.