The Minister of Education
and Science of Georgia, Dimitri Shashkini met with the citizens of Batumi and
answered their questions. Most of the questions
were about the High School Exams, Unified Entry Exams and Teachers’
Certification.
National
Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) and Ministry of Education and
Science of Georgia are holding an international Conference on 19th
and 20th of May in Batumi. Main goal of the “Safe School” conference
is to share Georgia’s school safety program experience with other countries.
Before
the High School Exams, on 19th and 20th of May, the
pre-test is being held for all students, registered for the High School Exams. Pre-test
will be held in more than 1,600 schools of Georgia in 8 sessions. 12th
graders will take approbation exams in all subjects that they will have to pass
at High School Exams.
The Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, Dimitri Shashkini
met with and fielded the questions from the citizens of Batumi. Most of the questions were about high school exams, unified entry
exams da teachers’ certification. Dimitri Shashkini answered the questions and
explained in details the 2012 plans regarding the exams.
On May 7th, students benefiting from 1,000 GEL vouchers began studying
at modern Poti Vocational Education Center “Phazisi”. 48 of them are refugees
and 20 of them are socially vulnerable and, therefore, received 1,000 GEL
voucher.
The Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, Dimitri
Shashkini, met socially vulnerable students newly enrolled at the Vocational
Education Center “New Wave” with the help of the new funding program based on a
voucher system.
The National Assessment, organized by the National Center for Educational
Quality Enhancement of MES, was held in
Georgian for first graders at
non-Georgian public schools.
The Minister of Education and
Science of Georgia, Dimitri Shashkini and the Governor of the National Bank of
Georgia Giorgi Kadagidze awarded 95 winning schoolchildren of the Academic
Olympics with cash prizes and certificates.
Certified teachers passed an
integrated exam in English and computer skills. This year, the exam was held
for the second time and more than 1,600 certified teachers took part in it. 54%
of teachers successfully passed the exam.
The Resource Officers of Public School #179 gave another
gift to their students, taking them on an excursion to Zakaria Paliashvili’s
museum. In the museum, the guests were shown all kinds of materials related to
the great Georgian composer’s life and activities.
In 2012, certified teachers of the natural sciences took a separate exam
in conducting of the scientific experiments. Majority of the
registered teachers have crossed the competency level and demonstrated
good results.
High school leaving exams 2011-2012 will start on May 21. Educational
Management Information System will technically support the process of
examination.
The
schoolchildren from various public schools pay visits to the National Forensics
Bureau on a daily basis to get acquainted with the activities of the
institutions. The mentioned initiative is jointly implemented by the Ministry
and the Bureau.
Organizational group has been created at the Ministry of Education and
Science of Georgia. The group will handle the issues of High School
Leaving and Unified National Exams. Today, meeting of the
organizational exams was held. All questions concerning the exams were
discussed during the meeting.
Registration
for a new wave of the participants in the “Georgia for Future Success” program
started. The process will end by June 20, 2012. A new group of the teachers
will commence their activities in the ethnic minority regions from September
10, 2012.