Education Minister presents 10-year development plan. What does it include?

Georgian Education Minister Mikheil Chkhenkeli has presented a 10-year education and science development strategy which covers five major areas, including pre-school education, general education, higher education, vocational education and science.

Pre-school Education

Education Minister Mikheil Chkhenkeli noted that multilingual education is being introduced in the education system, which will help to create an educational environment tailored to the needs of pre-school ethnic minorities.

Salaries of pre-school teachers will gradually increase in the coming future in Georgia

General Education

The ministry is working on developing a new model of school management and strengthening resource centres. A new model of school management is being developed, which envisages strengthening general educational institutions and giving them more autonomy.

Salaries of school administration employees will gradually increase throughout the country

The ministry is actively working on introducing bilingual education in schools, that will help strengthen the integration of national minorities in schools and develop bilingual human capital in the country

• Digital textbooks and additional educational resources will be added to schools in the coming future
• The process of ‘internetisation’ will be completed in all public schools by the end of 2026
• All public schools will have modern sports infrastructure by the end of 2026
• There will be school nurse cabinets in all public schools by the end of 2022

Vocational Education

 While talking about vocational education, Chkhenkeli noted that there will be exchange and joint programms with foreign vocational schools. The ministry also plans to launch the Erasmus program at the level of vocational education.

• Exchange programms will be offered to teachers and students
• Citizens of any education (general, high education) will have access to vocational education in all municipalities by 2032
• Up to 100,000 young individuals and adults will be able to receive vocational education each annually
• Vocational education funding will reach 730 million GEL by 2030

Higher Education

 The Georgian Ministry of Education and the World Bank are developing a new model for financing higher education, which includes basic funding for state universities.

Education Minister Mikheil Chkhenkeli said that with the new model universities will be able to modernize educational programs and training laboratories, fund scientific research and refine the professor remuneration system.

The budget for higher education will reach 270 million GEL by 2030.

Science

Our [the Ministry of Education and Science] main goal is to promote the best quality-oriented scientific researches, for which the volume of grant funding of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation has increased and will increase in the future”, said Mikheil Chkhenkeli.

Chkhenkeli noted that the total budget allocated for Georgian scientists will be 243 million GEL by 2030.