PM: Funding for education will be increased annually and will reach the highest point in 2022

Funding for education will be increased annually and will reach the highest point in 2022, - Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze stated in the National Library, where he presented a new initiative “Education – A Road to Freedom".

According to him, a large-scale reformation of the education system for 2019-2022 was announced at the presentation held in the Ikalto Academy last year.

"This reform is being implemented in all five directions: pre-school education, secondary education, vocational education, higher education and science. It was said then that we were starting to mobilize resources to implement this big project and I want to say that this project has already been launched. But now, we want to move to a new stage. Funding for education will be increased annually and will reach the highest point in 2022, when our GDP growth will be 6%, which is a quarter of our country’s budget. It will be secured by a special legislation - Educational Equality Act, which shall oblige the current and future governments for decades to make the mentioned scale of investment in the education sector every year. Furthermore, investments in the education sector, will also increase the investments by the private sector in this direction, which means that the education sector will become the dominant sector of our economy and its share will reach 10-11%," the Prime Minister said.

According to him, this means that together with Finland, Norway, Denmark and Singapore, Georgia will become the world's leading country, the priority of which will be education and human capital development.

"This means that preschool and general education will reach the European level, and the teacher’s profession will be one of the highest paid jobs in Georgia," - the Prime Minister said.

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