Mikheil Batiashvili met with the new Regional Director of the World Bank

Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia Mikheil Batiashvili and Deputy Minister Irina Abuladze held a meeting with the new Regional Director of the World Bank, Sebastian Molineus, and discussed the details of the comprehensive reform underway across all levels of education.

At the meeting, the future plans between the Ministry and the World Bank were also discussed, and the areas in which the World Bank will actively cooperate with the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport were defined.

Based on the agreement signed with the World Bank, the implementation of the large-scale project "Innovation, Inclusion and Quality - Georgia I2Q" will begin in the near future.

The project includes several components, such as:

• Increasing access to and improving the quality of preschool education, as well as regulating the salary policy for preschool education teachers;
• Introducing the teaching and learning quality of general education of international standards and implementing large-scale infrastructural projects;
• Developing education financing models, including the introduction of a new financing model for full integration of higher education into the European system;
• Introducing an effective education management information system.