Open Society Georgia: A part of the students who are citizens of Russia associate their future with getting a higher education in Georgia and consider it a challenge to know the Georgian language and use additional educational services to learn the Georgian language

A part of the students who are citizens of Russia associate their future with getting a higher education in Georgia and consider it a challenge to know the Georgian language and use additional educational services to learn the Georgian language, - reads a study developed with the support of the Open Society Georgia entitled "Issues of the Development of Russian Language Education in Georgia in context of the Russian-Ukrainian War".

According to the study, only a small part of migrant students of Russian citizens connect the next level of education to Russian higher education institutions.

"Part of the students who are citizens of Russia associate their future with getting a higher education in Georgia and consider it a challenge to know the Georgian language and use additional educational services to learn the Georgian language. Such specific directions as programs of the Naval Academy and international programs in technology and engineering at Kutaisi and Tbilisi universities are particularly popular. Only a small part of the migrant students of Russian citizens connect the next level of education with the higher education institutions of Russia," reads the study.

As for the Ukrainian students, according to the study, the vast majority of Ukrainian students and their parents consider being in the educational space of Georgia as a temporary event and connect their future with Ukraine and the Ukrainian higher education system.