Plan to boost Georgia’s education system announced

Georgia’s teachers and school principals will update their skills thanks to a five-year professional development plan initiated by the Ministry of Education.

Today at an event at the Sheraton Metekhi Palace Hotel, a Ministry representative announced the professional development plan, which also included ways to improve the way students are assessed.

Education Minister Tamar Sanikidze said the independent US foreign aid agency ‘Millennium Challenge Corporation – Georgia’, announced an international tender and the experts of a technical assessment competition commission chose German consulting company GOPA to help develop a professional development scheme for education professionals and create a new school evaluation system.

"This German company, which will work together with the Millennium Challenge Corporation and Georgia’s Ministry of Education, will develop a five-year program for professional development of teachers and principals, and will create a new assessment system. It [GOPA] will be our guide. It will help us determine major policies on how to solve this problem,” Sanikidze said.

She noted the project was focused on developing quality education in Georgia.

Today’s event was attended by the American Ambassador in Georgia Richard Norland and Millennium Challenge Corporation– Georgia director Jim McNicholas.