Gov’t to allocate $185 mln for Education Ministry, $59 mln to be used on increasing teacher’s salaries - PM
Garibashvili noted the Government's “large-scale project” worth ₾1 billion ($371 mln) launched last year, involving rehabilitation and construction of up to 1,000 schools, with rehabilitation works underway in 400 schools and 1,000 kindergartens. Photo: PM's press office
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday announced his Government would allocate $185 million for the country’s Education Ministry in 2024, from which $59 million would be spent on increasing teachers’ salaries.
In his address to the National Teacher Prize award ceremony, Garibashvili highlighted the importance of the teacher’s profession and noted a “decent and educated” generation was the “main foundation” for the country's strength, with teachers having an “immeasurably large role in the solidity and strength of this foundation”.
Garibashvili said the Government was aware of the teacher's “great merit” and noted his office along with the Education Ministry “intensively” worked to put “more efforts in raising the prestige” of the teaching profession.
He said teachers salary would be raised by ₾500 ($185) on average under the next year’s budget allocated for the Ministry.
The biggest influence on a teenager's development, thinking, awareness, defining and forming a point of view, along with the institution of the family, is you - the school, teachers and the church”, he said.
The PM stressed in order to “highlight and appreciate” teachers' “special role” in the public, the National Teacher’s Day was established on October 27, marking the birthday of Iakob Gogebashvili - Georgian educator, teacher, publicist, writer and founder of the scientific pedagogy in the country - for the first time in the country’s recent history.
He also said the teachers with a “special contribution” to the development of the public and the education system would be awarded with the National Teacher Prize and a cash prize of ₾10,000 ($3,710).
Garibashvili noted the Government's “large-scale project” worth ₾1 billion ($371 mln) launched last year, involving rehabilitation and construction of up to 1,000 schools, with rehabilitation works underway in 400 schools and 1,000 kindergartens.
“[I] had a conversation, I had a number of discussions with the Minister of Education and I know he holds intensive meetings with teachers, listens to your recommendations, visions, advice. Trust me, we will certainly take your vision into account to develop an even more effective system together with the ministry and the minister”, he told the audience.
The Municipal Development Fund of Georgia’s Ministry of Infrastructure will announce a tender for reconstruction and renovation of hundreds of kindergartens across Georgia this spring, the Fund said on Wednesday during a meeting with construction companies.
The United States Agency for International Development and the Georgian Education Ministry have launched a $14 million US Government-funded programme to strengthen Georgia’s education sector and increase education quality and equality in schools, the Agency said on Thursday.
Nino Psuturi, a teacher from central Georgia’s Gori Public School No.8, has won the National Teacher Award of Georgia after being nominated among five educators from across the country.
A Government programme will build 330 brand-new kindergartens and renovate 555 facilities across Georgia following an initiative by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.
A total of ₾1 billion ($354 mln) will be spent on construction and renovation of 800 schools in Georgia over the next four years, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced on Monday.
The Georgian Government has plans to announce a tender for the construction of 80 public schools and renovation of 320 others across the country between September-October, the Government Administration said on Wednesday, in comments on a meeting of Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili with education authorities to discuss the ₾1 billion ($357 mln) project.
Georgia celebrated National Teacher’s Day on Friday for the first time ever in the country’s recent history, awarding the meritorious teachers with the National Teacher Prize and a cash prize of ₾10,000 ($3,710).
Georgia’s revised budget project for 2024 was discussed on Thursday in a meeting of the Government’s Economic Council led by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.