On September 12 the Prime Minister of Georgia Zurab Noghaideli and education and science minister Alexandre Lomaya visited Imereti.
Zurab Noghaideli began his visit with opening of Kutaisi resource-center. Resource-centers within the frames of the systematic reform of the general education were opened instead of education departments and operated in 2006. Their function will be to provide assistance and consultations but not their management and control. The educational resource centers placed in the regional centers will help schools in the introduction of the new national curricula, administrative and financial school management; proper work of school boards; advancement of skills of teachers.
The Prime Minister visited Kutaisi public schools NN 40 and 13 and handed to the students the gift from the President (up to 100 school bags) and school appliance; inspected the current repair operations at occupational colleges; visited Zurab Zhvania school of state administration and handed over the certificates to the graduates. Zurab Noghaideli was satisfied with the operations performed in Imereti and stated: "For us the education objects were of top priority. As you have seen all over Georgia 300 schools are under repair and construction. Next year will be repaired two-times more - 600. The repair operations are intensively performed and are completed at some objects".
In Samtredia Zurab Noghaideli and Alexandre Lomaya inspected the sport ground with artifical covering. The Prime Minister met local residents in Samtredia and Vani regional center.
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