Tbilisi: The San Diego State University has collaborated with nation of Georgia in order to uplift the education system in the country. The initiative aimed at empowering the youngest generation has been moving forward at a significant pace.
The Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia selected the SDS university to lead a $4.19 million World Bank-funded effort towards the transformation of early childhood education, which mainly focuses on children from ages 2-5. It also includes 5-year old preschoolers.
The San Diego State University has been selected for the upliftment of educational standards in a contract that had been finalized last week as a part of the competitive proposal process and had attracted multiple international institutions.
For the past eight years, SDSU Georgia has held up the hopes and opportunities for a large number of Georgian students. The collaboration with education leaders in Georgia has provided SDSU a critical foundation that addresses this new focus on early childhood education but also continues a sustainable partnership to help Georgia reach its strategic goals.
Over the last ten years, SDSU has developed a strong presence in Georgia. The university have partnered with the US Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Georgian government to incorporate new campuses in Tbilisi in 2014. SDSU Georgia, providing degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics( STEM) fields, had opened in 2015.
The recent project for developing young Georgians would be led by Nancy Frey alongside SDSU faculty, US experts, along with Georgian academics, caregivers and educators. The team has been eyeing upon four goals:
: To build a framework to ensure quality and standards and plans to reach children with special needs and ensure access to ethnic and lingual minorities
: Creating systems for collecting data and reporting where it doesn’t exist
: Enhancing teacher development
: Implementing a school readiness program, focusing on developmentally-appropriate practices and trauma care
Early Childhood Education (ECE) is not mandatory in Georgia, but the country is looking forward to expanding both the scope and the quality of educational experiences for children.
