
Ministry of Education and Science
of Georgia has activated the second phase of distributing vocational education
1000 GEL worth vouchers. At this time, 1500 volunteers will be given a chance
to study at vocational education institutions. Minister of Education and
Science of Georgia Dimitri Shashkini visited vocational education information
center in Tbilisi and personally handed voucher to one of the future students.
During the second phase, the
Ministry will provide the socially vulnerable students, 9th graders
and 12th graders with vocational education vouchers. 3rd
phase of the vocational education financing will start in autumn, and 2500
volunteers will be granted with vouchers.
Nowadays, 2500 students are studying at vocational colleges and 1700 of
them are socially vulnerable.
Government of Georgia pays much
attention to the development of vocational education system: colleges are being
renovated; the educational programs are adjusted to the requirements of labor
market, new system of vocational education financing has been initiated by the
President.
As a result of the reforms
implemented by the Ministry, the employment rate of the graduates of the
vocational colleges increased to 75%.
Vocational education vouchers
will be distributed at vocational education information centers of Tbilisi,
Kutaisi and Kobuleti.