Time in Tbilisi: March 29, 2024 14:59
Primary school students affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine will be enrolled in Georgian public and private schools in a simplified manner, the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia announced on Friday.
The Ministry said Ukrainian students would be able to join the same classes they were attending in their country as of February 24, 2022, when Russia launched its invasion.
Those wishing to continue their studies in Georgia should apply to their desired schools. Georgia, like other countries, will offer Ukrainian school students to continue classes in public and private schools, [both] in [official] and other languages,” the Ministry said.
Current regulations require foreign citizens to apply to the Georgian National Centre for Educational Quality Enhancement and submit a range of papers, to receive the status of having received education in their country of origin before joining a Georgian school. The requirement will not apply to school children from Ukraine.
Detailed information is available on the hotline of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia through the number (995 32) 2 200 220.
Private and public kindergartens in Tbilisi will also accept Ukrainian children free of charge, with Tbilisi Mayor Kaladze announcing on March 16 they would be given priority during pre-school admissions.
The Georgian Education Ministry’s Office of Resource Officers of Educational Institutions will offer free psychosocial counselling to Ukrainian children and adolescents stranded in Georgia due to war in there home country.
Children of Ukrainian families stranded in Tbilisi due to the outbreak of hostilities in their country following the Russian invasion will be able to go to kindergartens without any fees starting the next week, Mayor Kakha Kaladze announced on Wednesday.
The Tbilisi-based Ilia State University (ISU) has established a programme to offer teaching opportunities to Ukrainian academics placed “at risk” by the Russian invasion of their country, the university announced on Tuesday.
Ukrainian citizens currently in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi will receive services of a select group of sports centres, museum venues, theatre halls, libraries and art schools free of charge, Tbilisi City Hall announced earlier today.
Andrei Kasyanov, the Representative of the Embassy of Ukraine in Georgia, on Friday expressed his gratitude to citizens and authorities of Georgia for their humanitarian assistance to Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion.
A total of 38 children affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine have been enrolled in Georgian schools, Tamar Makharashvili, the Georgian Deputy Minister of Education, said on Friday.
Makharashvili noted the Ukrainian students would be able to join Georgian schools in a “simplified procedure,” meaning they would still be accepted without the documentation.
The ruling Georgian Dream party MPs have denied the rumours of the possible restoration of Russian-language departments at Georgian schools.
Citizens of Israel who were studying healthcare in Ukraine and have not been able to continue the studies due to the outbreak of war will be able to use accelerated mobility procedures to keep their courses in the Georgian education system.
Parents of 110 Ukrainian students have enrolled their children in Georgian schools following an offer from the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia for continuing their studies in the country as the war in Ukraine prevents them from going back, the Ministry announced earlier on Tuesday.
The Georgian Government is ready to provide “maximum assistance” to Israeli students who have not been able to continue their studies in Ukraine due to the outbreak of the war in the country, so that they are able to continue studies at Georgian universities “in a timely manner”, Mikheil Chkhenkeli, the Georgian Minister of Education told an Israeli delegation in a meeting on Wednesday.
It is “especially important” to support and assist Ukrainian families displaced by the war, Giorgi Tkemaladze, the Head of Tbilisi City Assembly, said at today’s meeting with parents of Ukrainian students recently enrolled in Georgian schools.
A symbolic demonstration outside the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi honoured the memory of children killed in the ongoing war in Ukraine on Wednesday. Organisers of the action - five current and former reporters from Georgia - placed 145 shoes in front of the building in reference to the number of children who have become casualties in the conflict so far.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili and a group of majoritarian MPs of the country's legislative body brought presents to the Ukrainian children enrolled in Georgian public schools on Saturday.
The Georgian Parliament hosted a reception for the kids from Ukraine earlier today. During the reception, Papuashvili addressed the students, their parents and teachers, expressing hope they would spend an “interesting time” in Georgia.
Ukrainian students in Georgia who are unable to return to schools in their country due to the ongoing war were welcomed to classes in their native language at the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Tbilisi No. 41 Public School on Monday, by the decision of Irakli Garibashvili, the Prime Minister, Georgia’s Education Ministry revealed.
Representatives of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the UN Refugee Agency have welcomed the launch of classes in native language for Ukrainian students at the Tbilisi No. 41 Public School, thanking the Georgian Government for the initiative of support for the Ukrainians in the country on the backdrop of Russia's invasion of their homeland.
The Tbilisi-based Ilia State University has offered free classes of English-language Civil Engineering Bachelor programme for the 2022-2033 academic year to fifteen Ukrainian citizens in Georgia.
Ukrainian students stranded in Georgia by the outbreak of the war in their country can now join classes in their native language at Public School No. 20 in the Black Sea city of Batumi, the Education Ministry announced on Wednesday.
Ukrainian school students affected by the ongoing war in their country will continue to benefit from simplified enrollment at Georgian schools in the 2022-2023 academic year, the Georgian Education Ministry announced on Thursday.
The Georgian government has limited distance learning in schools for the new 2022-2023 academic year following continued positive trends in Covid-19-related numbers, the Georgian education ministry announced on Wednesday.
Over 632,000 school students walked into classrooms to begin their studies in the new school year across Georgia, with changes to their curriculum and new school venues unveiled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili named education as his government’s “top strategic priority” in his address at the United Nations education summit on Monday, stressing commitment to increasing public funding of the sector to up to six percent of the gross domestic product by 2030.
The Georgian government has successfully enrolled more than 1,500 Ukrainian students forced to flee the country due to the war in schools across Georgia, prime minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Monday in his address to the education summit of the United Nations.