Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday presented his Government's new vision for developing the professional education sector in the country, calling the initiative a “real public-private partnership” involving a proposal for the business sector to become involved in the process.
The PM said the proposal had been “developed based on best practices for the private sector, which envisages an innovative approach to vocational education by the state”.
"This is a real public-private partnership offering, which involves us investing in professional education together with you, as well as developing professional educational programmes with you, which in turn ensures the training of personnel corresponding to business requirements and significantly increases the employment rate”, Garibashvili said.
He added the Government was “actively” starting to integrate professional education in schools throughout the country to develop professional skills for children from school age.
"Coordinated work with business will be crucial in this process. In practice, if we properly plan all these professions and these programmes, we can say that there will be 100 percent guaranteed employment for all those people who will enter the vocational college [...] graduate, study and acquire the necessary skills”, Garibashvili said.
The official added the Government’s “main task” was to ensure the provision of “quality education at all levels of the education system”.
"The Government Administration announced the Ministry of Education would start implementing initiatives envisaged by the vision this year to increase the “effectiveness and attraction” of professional education “in the near future”.
