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Teaching English language in Georgia’s schools

The year 2012 can be marked as a year when English language became the main foreign language in the country – 73% of high school graduates registered for university entrance exams chose English as their foreign language exam. Just two years earlier this indicator was only 43%, while another 45% preferred to pass Russian language
Georgia’s learning losses in the pandemic: Do we know how bad?

With the third year into the pandemic and online/hybrid teaching approaching, analysis of learning losses are still of qualitative nature. More systematic, quantitative and measurable approach needs to be taken in order to assess the critical points of loss – the school subjects, the vulnerable groups, and the schools – in order to design restorative policies and practices and minimize the educational gaps exacerbated by the pandemic.
Georgia’s new draft Education Strategy plans to make the public school infrastructure more inclusive

The draft Unified National Strategy of Education and Science of Georgia 2022-2032 that the ministry published for public consultation, plans to continue improving the public school infrastructure and technical-material base, as “67% of these institutions are not fully adapted to upbringing and education of children with special needs, moreover, majority of them do not have adequate pedagogical resources”.
Georgian government starting to work on national school nutrition concept

In November 2021 the Georgian government announced their plans to work on the national school nutrition concept together with UNICEF.
Drowning in Debt: An Overview of Household Indebtedness in Georgia

There is growing consensus between all sides of the Georgian political spectrum that the issue of household and individual indebtedness has to be addressed. The problem is overwhelming
and often under-discussed – around 45% of people admit in surveys to carrying debt. This may even understate the problem as other macroeconomic indicators suggest the number
could be closer to 70%.
Policy Paper | Rebuilding Education in Georgia: the Infrastructure Challenge in Georgia’s School System

Rebuilding Education in Georgia: the Infrastructure Challenge in Georgia’s School System Policy Paper Key Findings The physical condition of Georgian school buildings has long been a source of national concern. The vast majority of the country’s schools were built during the Soviet Union and, during the chaos and poverty that beset the country following independence,
Policy Paper | Teacher Recruitment and Career Development

Teaching in Georgia suffers from a severe image problem. There is a perception of the profession having low salaries and teachers themselves having low prestige. This perception plays a role in stopping brighter and more motivated young people from becoming teachers.

Teaching English language in Georgia’s schools

Georgia’s learning losses in the pandemic: Do we know how bad?

Georgia’s new draft Education Strategy plans to make the public school infrastructure more inclusive

Georgian government starting to work on national school nutrition concept

Drowning in Debt: An Overview of Household Indebtedness in Georgia

Policy Paper | Rebuilding Education in Georgia: the Infrastructure Challenge in Georgia’s School System

Policy Paper | Teacher Recruitment and Career Development

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Teaching English language in Georgia’s schools

Georgia’s learning losses in the pandemic: Do we know how bad?

Georgia’s new draft Education Strategy plans to make the public school infrastructure more inclusive

Georgian government starting to work on national school nutrition concept

Drowning in Debt: An Overview of Household Indebtedness in Georgia

Policy Paper | Rebuilding Education in Georgia: the Infrastructure Challenge in Georgia’s School System

Policy Paper | Teacher Recruitment and Career Development

Policy paper | Inclusive Education in Georgia

Policy Paper | Educational marginalization: Georgia’s Ethnic Minority Groups

Policy Paper | Rural Schools in Georgia: Devising Education Policy for a Depopulating Countryside

Can education of Georgia’s most vulnerable schoolchildren afford another year of online schooling?