Vocational Education

Invited guests:

Giorgi Nanobashvili – UNDP Georgia economic team leader

Revaz Sakvarelidze – UNDP Georgia vocational education project manage.

In the transmission also took part:

Tea Siprashvili –  Deputy Head of VET Development Department at The Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia.

For supporting Vocational Education and Training field EU has released the first  tranche of 6 million dollars in the budget of Georgia.

Prior, Georgian Government has met all those preconditions, that one was in charge of development this field: participating state institutions, social partners and representatives of  non-state subjects regional council of vocational education and training was created and its national medium-term strategy has been approved (for 2009-2012 years), consultations with civil society has been started and report describing analysis of the situation in the field of vocational education and training was released.

What should vocational education serve and why supporting it is important for the country, how this field of education is priority in Georgia nowadays, whether Georgian citizens know about the initiatives, that are implemented for the purpose of educational development, or not – these subjects were discussed by the invited guests – Giorgi Nanobashvili, UNDP Georgia economic team leader and Revaz Sakvarelidze, UNDP Georgia vocational education project manager. They introduced to the audience the project financially supported by EU implemented in Shida Kartli by UNDP. In the frames of this project, centre of vocational education and trainings has been created.

In the program also took part Tea Siprashvili, Deputy Head of VET Development Department at The Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia , who has talked about state policy in terms of vocational education. She introduced to the audience state program “Vocational education for employment”.