
Georgia
Georgian government announces controversial higher education reforms
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze presented the reform concept on Thursday.

Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze presented the reform concept on Thursday.

Students across Georgia are staging sit-ins at their universities as their own form of protest against the government’s EU U-turn.

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