Millennium Challenge Account - Georgia has launched the
annual National TVET Awards 2018 competition.
The competition supported by the Gudavadze-Patarkatsishvili Foundation and the Ministry
of Education and Science of Georgia, has been organized for the second time in
Georgia.
"The National TVET Awards was organized for the first
time in Georgia in 2017 and since then, has become one of the successful events
in the Georgian TVET sector. Our main goal is to promote the best practices
that we currently have in TVET sector in Georgia, thus making vocational
education more popular and attractive in the country. It is very important that
parents and students understand what opportunities are there in this sector as
vocational education is one of the fastest ways to employment. We are expecting
more applications and bigger engagement in this year’s competition”, - said
Magda Magradze, CEO of Millennium Challenge Account – Georgia.
The National TVET Awards
2018 will reveal winners in the
following four award categories: TVET
Provider of the Year, TVET Business Partner of the Year, TVET Professional of
the Year and TVET Student of the Year.
The winners will
participate in a special study tour program in Germany, hosted by the German company
PEM Consult, where the winners will be introduced to German practice in their respective
fields.
Ketevan
Natriashvili, the First Deputy Minister of
Education and Science of Georgia, Zurab
Kervalishvili, Director of Gudavadze-Patarkatsishvili Foundation and Jenner Edelman, Resident Country
Director of Millennium Challenge Corporation attended the event. The winners of 2017 competition
also shared their experience with the audience.
Detailed
documentation and online application forms are available at the awards website: www.awardtvet.ge. The deadline for
application is July 2nd,
2018. Candidates will be evaluated by the independent jury. The winners of awards will be announced at the gala
event of National TVET Award 2018, to be held in the autumn 2018.