New Initiatives and Challenges of the Education System for 2010-2011
The President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili held a meeting with the
teachers and students of Adjara Region in Batumi №3 school and discussed new
initiatives to be carried out within the education system for the years of 2010-2011.
These initiatives are:
- Achieving a high level of student attendance at schools through
- attaching a greater importance to the high school diploma,
- obtaining a minimum competence score in 10 compulsory subjects including in information technology , mathematics and physics, to get a high school diploma through passing the exams at the National Examination Centers ;
- making the student’s attendance as one of the core components of students overall grading;
- setting up a school self -government bodies;
- promoting school Olympiads.
2. Increasing professional skills of teacher through;
- starting the teachers certification process on a voluntary basis from July, 2010,
- raising the salaries of certified teachers,
- encouraging teachers professional development from the part of the state,
- enhancing institute of the mentors (teachers who are dealing with interns).
- Improvement of the Infrastructure through
- engaging the local governance bodies in developing the infrastructure and rehabilitating schools, (successful example of Adjara region);
- transferring 20 million GEL from the central budget to the local budget;
- renovating school cafeterias –introducing outsourcing mechanism;
- arranging school laboratories and libraries.
- Improving the National Curriculum through
- introducing the sports classes instead of physical culture classes;
- delivering computer science classes at schools;
- developing a culture studies as a discipline;
- promoting military-patriotic teachings at schools .
- Developing the standards for school textbooks/manuals through
- requiring strict attention to approval of textbooks
- creating standards for school editions;
- reducing cost of the school textbooks and forbidding their frequent changes.
- Developing a safe school concept through
- introducing the institution of school guards
- starting division of schools in three levels in big cities,
- introducing the credit card system at schools to prohibiting cash flow in schools.
