
Minister of Education and Science
of Georgia Dimitri Shashkini, as entrusted by the President of Georgia,
awarded the successful staff members of the Ministry with Medals of Honor. Medal of Honors were conferred to Giorgi
Gulua, Deputy Director of the Educational and Scientific Infrastructure
Development Agency under Ministry and Irakli Andriashvili, Head of Internal
Audit Department of the Ministry. Minister thanked them for their accomplishments
and talked about their achievements.
Under the supervision of Giorgi
Gulua, student management information system was set up for the first time in
Georgia. All schools have access to this system and it is used for registration
of the first graders, administration of school students’ mobility and
management of the process of providing the socially vulnerable schoolchildren
with the textbooks. Mr. Gulua and his team also provided a technical assistance
to 2011 school graduation exams.
CAT exams were held for the first
time in Georgia this year, which was unprecedented in terms of its scale and
significance. In order to ensure a smooth administration of these exams, Deputy
Director of the Educational and Scientific Infrastructure Development Agency
supervised a process of providing the schools with the proper infrastructure
and an access to internet. A competition was also announced to select IT specialists
to be involved in a process of providing technical support to the school
graduation exams The exams were observed from the Data Processing Center, the
central server which collected information on the proceeding of the exams at
all schools of Georgia, operated without delay.
Mr. Irakli Andriashvili, Head of
Internal Audit Department of the Ministry was awarded for successfully dealing
the cases of overcoming corruption at educational institutions, preventing and
detecting of any misbehavior in the
system, as well as for adequately assessing the risks of the Ministry. Internal Audit Department regularly processes
various complaints and reacts to them in a timely manner.
According to the Minister,
professional and responsible staff members positively contribute to a
successful implementation of the education reform.