Givi Mikanadze - We take responsibility for ensuring that 11 years of education will be sufficient, and for those wishing to study in the 12th grade, we will open registration every year - we will introduce the so-called repetitorium and in the 11th grade students will study only those subjects that they need to pass in the exams
The Ministry of Education, Science and Youth takes full responsibility for ensuring that 11 years of education will be sufficient to provide our young people with a full-fledged general education - the Minister of Education, Science and Youth, Givi Mikanadze, said during the presentation of the National Concept of General Education Reform.
In addition, as he explained, the Ministry plans to provide students in the 11th grade with the opportunity to prepare only in those subjects that they need to pass national exams.
“The Ministry of Education, Science and Youth takes full responsibility for ensuring that 11 years of education will be sufficient to provide young people with a full-fledged general education. At the same time, we will leave a voluntary component, through which in March of each year any interested person will be able to register if they wish to study in the 12th grade as well. Accordingly, the 12th grade will be opened specifically for them next academic year, and thus we will also satisfy their interests. It is also important for us that all teachers who will be affected by the absence of the 12th grade will be involved in special training processes so that all of them are compensated for the salary they receive today and no teacher will be harmed in terms of the salary grid.
It is important that we make the 11th grade, the final grade, profiled. This reflects the goal, which is related, first of all, to returning students to school. Let's increase authority and prestige of the school and remove the pressure on families that is related to financial issues, in terms of preparing students for the national exams. In this regard, we are introducing the so-called repetitorium in the 11th grade. When children will have the opportunity to study only those subjects that they need to pass in the national exams, this will be a 1-year intensive study program that will allow each student to be maximally involved and they will no longer need to engage in additional, outside-of-school, educational processes. The entire educational process will be focused on those subjects and materials that will be most closely related to the national exam program," Mikanadze said.
