
The Minister of Education and Science of
Georgia Dimitri Shashkini announced the fact of establishing new Public Law
Entity “National Center for Education Quality Assurance”.
National Center for Education Quality
Assurance is the successor of National Center for Education Accreditation. The main
functions of the new center will be:
- Make recommendations concerning education
quality improvement
- Authorization of general, professional
and higher education institutions and accreditation of educational programmes
- Verification of educational documents
issued in Georgia including legalization and apostil
- Recognition of
education obtained on an occupied territory
- Recognition of
education obtained in Foreign Countries
- Students
Mobility
- Educational Institutions’ register
administration
On July 21, 2010 law amendments were
introduced according to which all general, professional and higher education
institutions should be authorized.
There are 70 accredited and around 200 licensed educational institutions in
Georgia. In licensed higher education institutions students are enrolled
without passing National Exams. Around 18,000 students study in these
higher educational institutions and these graduates are not able to work in the
public sector because their diplomas aren’t recognized by state.
Authorization process will support the
development of higher education institutions. With the help of the new center,
authorized higher education institutions will be able to pass accreditation and
they will have opportunity to receive state financing with the vouchers.