Education Minister announces Georgia will join Global School Meals Coalition
Giorgi Amilakhvari, the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, on Tuesday said the country was becoming a member of the Global School Meals Coalition. Photo: Gov't Administration
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Giorgi Amilakhvari, the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, on Tuesday said the country was becoming a member of the Global School Meals Coalition, an initiative aiming to ensure meals for school students across the world by 2030.
Speaking at a presentation of the domestic General Education Reform project, Amilakhvari said the Ministry had formed a “special programme” to identify when schools across the country would be able to provide meals to their students.
He added his office had established “standards based on international practice” with regard to school cafeterias.
The Minister also said ensuring school meals had been a “challenge for many years” across the country, adding solving the issue required “certain steps” from the education system.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday presented the Government’s General Education Reform for the country, with plans for updating national education goals to strengthen “national identity” and promote formation of “healthy values” among students.
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.
Georgian Education Minister Giorgi Amilakhvari on Tuesday said all vocational education programmes across the country would be updated and revised to offer a “completely new concept” with mandatory modules for general education.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday said the 2024 budget for the Ministry of Education and Science would reach ₾2.508 billion ($0.94bln), registering a 300 percent increase compared to the ₾626 million ($234.49mln) allocated to the body in 2012 under the previous Government.
Georgian Education Minister Giorgi Amilakhvari, accompanied by his delegation, and Elchin Babayev, Rector of Baku State University, along with the University’s academic council and faculty, on Thursday discussed the cooperation between the universities of the two nations.
Strategic partnership between Georgia and Azerbaijan was discussed on Friday in a meeting between the Georgian Education Minister Giorgi Amilakhvari and the Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov.
Givi Mikanadze, the Chair of the Georgian Parliament's Education, Science and Youth Affairs Committee and his Latvian counterpart Agita Zariņa-Stūre on Wednesday signed a joint communique on cooperation in the fields of education and science at the meeting held in Tbilisi.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Tuesday said creating "broad development opportunities” for young individuals in the country should be a “special concern” of the Government, highlighting the education system for the purpose.
Georgian Education Minister Giorgi Amilakhvari on Tuesday highlighted the Ministry’s initiatives to support youth and enhance their contribution to the state's development while presenting his vision of youth policy to the public.