Georgia’s Educaiton Minister, ADB Country Director for Georgia discuss future cooperation issues related to vocational education

Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia Mikheil Chkhenkeli has today hosted Shane Rosenthal, Country Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for Georgia. The issues of future cooperation were discussed at the meeting.

One of the main topics of the meeting was development of vocational education and involvement of Asian Development Bank in this direction.

InterPressNews was informed by the Ministry Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia that at the meeting Minister Chkhenkeli stresses the importance of training qualified personnel according to market demand, which is directly related to employment.

The Ministry has already made legislative amendments in the field of vocational education. A number of important projects are under way at this stage, including the attraction of qualified teachers, implementation of integrated programs, boosting the English language teaching component and etc.

“The representative of the Asian Development Bank pledged support in the process of development of the vocational education and noted that the Bank, along with other donor organizations, is ready to carry out a number of important projects in this regard," the report said.