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Datablog | Is quality education in Georgia really accessible for all?
Most Georgians believe access to quality education is fairly equitable between men and women.
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Review | 1978 — The Struggle for the Status of the Georgian Language: Oral Histories
While an interesting collection of oral histories, this compilation struggles to do too much at once, becoming disjointed in the process.
Armenia
Pashinyan’s wife launches series of educational talks, mimicking Ted Talks
Pashinyan was the first speaker in the series of lectures.
Georgia’s EU U-turn
‘Our voice is heard the loudest from here’: Georgia’s students occupy their universities
Students across Georgia are staging sit-ins at their universities as their own form of protest against the government’s EU U-turn.
Georgia
Georgian Dream vows to ‘transform’ university system
Kobakhidze did not specify what exactly the ‘transformation’ means, but in the past had expressed his dissatisfaction towards opposition-minded professors.
2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Georgia’s students take their lectures to the streets
A group of students at Ilia State University (ISU) in Tbilisi have spontaneously come together to form a new student group in protest against the rigged parliamentary elections — with one form of protest including organising their lectures on the streets. On 19 November, the Iliauni Student Movement at Tbilisi’s most progressive university organised their first publicly visible initiative, taking the lead from Georgian writers Lasha Bughadze and Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili, who delivered a ser
Education
Georgia’s Education Ministry withholds full accreditation from Ilia State University
Georgia’s Ministry of Education has withheld full accreditation from Ilia State University (ISU), with critics attributing the move to the university’s staff and students’ opposition to the controversial foreign agent law. On Friday, Ilia State University reported that the Authorisation Council for Higher Education Institutions had granted them authorisation ‘with the condition of monitoring after a year’. According to the university, this decision was made despite having received positive
