New Program has been launched for Development of Labor Skills in Pupils

The Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, in cooperation with the vocational and general educational institutions, implements a labor skills development program in the school pupils, on the basis of which the pupils will have the opportunity to study different professions, learn and develop the necessary basic skills. The program enables the educational institutions to get united and to collaborate through making school life of our pupils more interesting and varied.

Today the First Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia - Ketevan Natriashvili attended the labor skills training in modeling and food safety issues in №51 Public School of Tbilisi and talked with the pupils.

The project serves to increase awareness of vocational programs in school pupils and popularization of vocational education. Participation in the program is voluntary and at this stage the pupils of VII, VIII and IX grades of public schools are involved in it.

For implementation of the labor skills development courses in the pupils, 200 projects were selected based on the competition, which will be implemented in 138 public schools. Accordingly 3306 pupils will be involved in the lessons / courses for development of labor skills.