They want to put an end to Ilia State University, however, the situation is much more complicated - no one should think that private universities will survive this! - The fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, stated on Radio Palitra.

Salome Zurabishvili spoke about the higher education reform and noted that “in reality, all of this is dedicated to establishing political, single-party control over professors, programs, and books.

“No one should think that private universities will survive this! This is a direct sign that they are dealing with different fields, sectors separately. Others think that I survived, it’s good, I can keep quiet, but... How did the Soviet system work? It’s exactly like this: when they knocked on someone’s door, the neighbor thought that he survived and was silent, then they approached him. This is what is happening to universities today. Tomorrow it will happen to some other field, the market, doctors,” Zurabishvili noted.