Academic year to end on June 15 in Georgia
The twelfth grade and first grade students will have a different schedule with the academic year ending on May 20 and on May 27 respectively. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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The academic year will end on June 15 in Georgian schools, while twelfth grade and first grade students will have a different schedule with the academic year ending on May 20 and on May 27 respectively, said Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia at a presentation of the government’s anti-crisis plan for education earlier today.
Georgian schools were closed on May 4, 2020 to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in the country.
We took the necessary steps in education very early on in order to reduce the number of infected people as a result of which studies in schools were stopped starting March 4. This was critical not only to reduce infection in the education sector but in the society as a whole,” said Gakharia.
The Ministry of Education then started the implementation of online lessons.
Also, the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) has been broadcasting live lessons for school children since March 30 amid the coronavirus outbreak in Georgia.
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Gakharia said that the reform in the education system is one of the main priorities of Georgia.
No one knows exactly what the post-pandemic world will be like, but it is clear that global competition will be fiercer and we must do everything we can to ensure that our young people, children, schoolchildren and students are ready to take their place in the global competition,” said Gakharia.
He noted that both human and financial resources should be mobilized to complete the reform of the education system.
Georgian citizens will have free access to 2093 electronic books on www.lit.ge for a month due to prolonged school holidays amid coronavirus, the information was announced at a meeting held by the Ministry of Education today.
Two of Georgia's major universities have switched to remote classes and services for their students as a measure for countering a coronavirus threat, with Ilia State University and University of Georgia announcing their decisions.
The study process will not be resumed at schools until September 1, however, distance learning will continue in Georgia.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has praised the Georgian distant education system implemented a month ago as one of the best in the world amid the coronavirus outbreak.
In-person studies will resume in Georgia starting October 4 as coronavirus daily cases are decreasing, the government of Georgia announced earlier today. Both public and private kindergartens, high and vocational education institutions will also be able to resume in-person studies. Children’s entertainment centres around Georgia will be allowed to reopen on October 4.