One university entrance exam taker tests positive for coronavirus in Georgia
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One applicant who took a university entrance exam on July 7 has tested positive for the coronavirus, head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze confirmed earlier today.
He said that the teenage girl suffers from a mild form of the virus and is now undergoing treatment.
Gamkrelidze stated that all nine applicants who took the exam with the girl, as well as the personnel of the National Exam Centre who supervised the entrants during the exam, are under the supervision of doctors.
We had communication with the National Exam Centre late yesterday and all preventive measures have been taken. All individuals have been identified who took the exam with the infected teenager (in the same room). The entrants will be able to take all other exams in line with rules - they are likely to be placed in quarantine and will be tested for the coronavirus prior to exams,” Gamkrelidze said.
National exams for university applicants started on July six in Georgia and will end on July 25.
Only 10 exam takers are allowed in a room. Tables stand two meters part, and there is a special, transparent barrier in front of each table.
The exam takers have to wear face masks before they sit at the table.
The college applicants’ works will be checked only after passing two weeks from the exam day.
University applicants who are Georgian citizens and live in Azerbaijan and cannot travel to Georgia to take the national exams due to the Covid-19 restrictions will have their tuition waived by the government of Georgia, announces the Ministry of Education of Georgia.
University applicants living in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions will be enrolled in universities without passing the Unified National Exams, reports the Georgian Ministry of Education.
National exams for university entrants will start on July six in Georgia and will end on July 25. Exams for master’s degree studies will begin on August 1 and will end on August 4, the Georgian Education Ministry stated earlier today.
The Georgian government has taken on responsibility to provide “unprecedented support” for education in the country and invest one-fourth of the state budget for educational goals, Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze stated earlier today during the presentation of the government initiative: Education - Way to Freedom.
All 668 university applicants living in Georgia's Russian-occupied region of Abkhazia have been enrolled in Abkhazian State University without exams, reports Abkhaz media outlets.
Twenty university entrance exam takers have tested positive for coronavirus in Georgia, Head of the National Examination and Assessment Centre Sopo Gorgodze said today.
A total of 24 inmates have registered for the country’s university entrance exams this year, says the Special Penitentiary Service of Georgia.
A total of 29,362 university applicants of 38,300 registered have passed the United National Exams, the common national exams for higher education.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday pledged further efforts by his Government to ensure a higher quality domestic education system and a “safe environment” for the country’s youth in his message to more than 45,000 university entrants on the launch of exams earlier during the day.