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Georgia axes secondary school exams in controversial education reforms

11 February 2019 by OC Media

(Georgia's Ministry of Education)

Georgia’s education ministry has announced plans to scrap stan­dard­ised grad­u­a­tion testing for secondary school students and to drop one of the four Unified National Exams — the stan­dard­ised entrance exams for Georgian uni­ver­si­ties. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: education, education ministry, exam, georgia, georgian dream, higher education, national exams, school, university

Georgia’s education initiative for Abkhazia leaves Gali students out in the cold

28 January 2019 by Nino Gogua

Russian-language textbooks used by Gali pupils issued in Moscow (Nino Gogua /OC Media)

With their new peace ini­tia­tive, ‘A Step to a Better Future’, Georgia’s gov­ern­ment hopes to tempt students from Abkhazia and South Ossetia to enrol in Georgian uni­ver­si­ties by letting them sit entrance exams in their ‘native language’. But for Abkhazia’s ethnic Georgians in Gali, banned from studying in Georgian there and whose Abkhaz language skills are far from native, the ini­tia­tive does little to help.

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Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: a step to a better future, abkhaz, abkhazia, abkhazian, education, gal, gal district, gali, gali district, georgia, georgian, kokhora, mingrelian, teaching

Talking about sex: an unspoken topic in Armenia

26 October 2018 by Armine Avetisyan

(Armine Avetisyan /OC Media)

Sex is a taboo topic in Armenia, and as such, many children turn to the internet for answers about this and other intimate topics. While schools have intro­duced basic lessons on living a ‘healthy lifestyle’ that touch on the topic, most experts agree they are not fit for purpose. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Society, Top Tagged With: Armenia, education, schools, sex, sex ed, sex education, sexual education, taboo, yerevan

Top-level sackings at education ministry as Georgia unveils reforms

14 September 2018 by OC Media

Education Minister Mikheil Bati­ashvili (Facebook)

Six senior figures at Georgia’s Ministry of Education were dismissed on Monday just 10 days before the start of the new term. On Friday, Minister Mikheil Bati­ashvili was joined by Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze to unveil the government’s education shake-up. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: education, education reform, education system, girchi, maia miminoshvili, Mamuka Bakhtadze, national exams, prime minister, schools, teachers, zurab japaridze

Georgian ‘Gülen-connected’ university banned from taking in new students

22 August 2018 by OC Media

Student protest in support of IBSU on 21 August (Dato Parulava /OC Media)

The Education Ministry of Georgia has banned the Inter­na­tion­al Black Sea Uni­ver­si­ty from taking in new students for one year, raising questions about possible political motives amidst the Turkish ambassador’s recent alle­ga­tions that the Gülen movement ‘still has its uni­ver­si­ty in Georgia’. The uni­ver­si­ty denies any con­nec­tion to the movement.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: education, fethullah gülen, FETÖ, georgia, higher education, IBSU, International Black Sea University, mustafa emre çabuk, şahin, tbilisi, turkey

Analysis | Trust in Georgia’s education system erodes with exposure to it

3 July 2018 by CRRC

Tbilisi State Uni­ver­si­ty (tsu.ge)

CRRC-Georgia examines how the more time a person has spent in formal education in Georgia, the less they trust it. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion & Analysis Tagged With: crrc, education, georgia

MPs grill investigators over Khorava Street murders

25 June 2018 by OC Media

Otar Kakhidze, Sergi Kapanadze and Elene Khoshtaria (Mzia Saganelidze - RFE/RL)

Inves­ti­ga­tors from the Khorava Street murder case faced ques­tion­ing from MPs on Monday, into alleged failures by the inves­ti­ga­tion. A par­lia­men­tary com­mis­sion was set up in the wake of large street protests in Tbilisi, which followed the partial acquittal of the suspects in the case and alle­ga­tions the inves­ti­ga­tion was mis­han­dled. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: children, children's rights, crime, Davit Saralidze, education, georgia, Irakli Shotadze, khorava street murder, Levan Dadunashvili, Malkhaz Machalikashvili, murder, pankisi, police, protest, Saralidze, school, SSG, state security service, tbilisi, temirlan machalikashvili, terrorism, Zaza Saralidze

UNM officially joins anti-government protests in Tbilisi

3 June 2018 by OC Media

UNM MP Nika Melia (Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)

The oppo­si­tion United National Movement Party (UNM), as well as two other minor parties, has announced they are offi­cial­ly joining anti-gov­ern­ment protests currently taking place in Tbilisi. UNM MP Nika Melia addressed crowds gathered outside par­lia­ment after meeting with protest leaders and said the protests would resume on Sunday at 18:00 where they will announce a plan for how to continue [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: children, children's rights, crime, Davit Saralidze, education, georgia, Irakli Shotadze, Levan Dadunashvili, machalikashvili, murder, Nanuka Zhorzholiani, Nika Melia, police, Saralidze, school, tbilisi, unm, Zaza Saralidze

Georgia’s chief prosecutor resigns amidst mass protests

1 June 2018 by OC Media

Zaza Saralidze (Dato Parulava/OC Media)

Georgia’s chief pros­e­cu­tor, Irakli Shotadze, has resigned, following large protests in Tbilisi. The protests have been sparked by what critics call a ‘com­pro­mised inves­ti­ga­tion’ into the fatal stabbing of two teenagers outside a school in Tbilisi in December. On Thursday, Tbilisi City Court found one teenager guilty of killing Levan Dadunashvili, while another was found guilty of the lesser charge of attempted murder on Davit Saralidze, leaving open the question of who killed him. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: children, children's rights, crime, Davit Saralidze, education, georgia, Irakli Shotadze, Levan Dadunashvili, murder, police, Saralidze, school, tbilisi, Zaza Saralidze

Tbilisi court partially acquits teenagers of fatal school stabbings

31 May 2018 by OC Media

People gathering at the Prosecutor’s Office where the father of murdered teenager Davit Saralidze is holding a demon­stra­tion (Tatia Khaliani /Liberali)

Tbilisi City Court has acquitted two teenagers of the murder of Davit Saralidze, one of the two teenagers killed in a school brawl in December. The court found one of the defendant’s guilty of killing the second victim, Levan Dadunashvili, while the other was found guilty of the attempted murder of Saralidze. The pair are to be sentenced on 1 June. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: children, children's rights, crime, education, georgia, murder, police, school, tbilisi

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