The UK Bridge Education Fair
On March 2, Rooms Hotel Tbilisi hosted the 9th annual education fair organized by the UK Bridge education agency, seeing leading institutions including summer schools, English language courses and universities presenting their programs to guests.
GEORGIA TODAY attended the event and spoke with some of the participants.
The CEO of Central Film School, Rory Curley, shared his experience with us. “This is the first time we, myself and the school, have come to Georgia, and its an area we’ve been greatly interested in for a long time. I joined the team of the Central Film School nearly two years ago, and since then have been travelling a lot to launch projects which help us promote our institution on the world markets. As the school has never travelled abroad before, it was quite difficult to choose the right destination. As a film school, we try to expose ourselves to countries which have a developed cultural life and express an interest in the creative arts. Tbilisi is a city with a growing reputation in this respect. It is considered the cultural center of the Caucasus,” Curley said, adding: “Even though we have one Georgian student at our school, we are looking forward to grabbing the attention of more Georgians through our various programs.”
The representatives of the world-renowned Instituto Marangoni also spoke about the importance of the Tbilisi education fair. “It is the 5th time I’m attending this event. It’s always nice and fruitful to be here as there is a lot of interest among Georgian students in art, fashion and design studies abroad- and Marangoni offers top-level programs in these fields.”
It was also intriguing to find out whether the success of the Georgian fashion designers abroad had increased the desire of the institution to attend the event. “We don’t really choose our destinations according to the success of the local designers. Even though the Georgian fashion designers are really skilled and recognized worldwide, we mostly explore the general interest of our target audience. I truly believe that Georgian students are very creative and passionate about fashion, as well as product and interior design,” – the Regional Emission Manager of Instituto Marangoni told us.
“Our summer school has been participating in the UK Bridge Education Fair for seven years, since 2013,” the representative of the Buckswood Overseas Summer School told us. “The students we host from Georgia are unique. I find Georgians to be very creative and very expressive. I think it’s a great fair to attract the attention of a number of new students to our program.”
The UK Bridge education agency was established in 2008 by Nutsa Kuridze and Anka Vetsko. The company has for 10 years been helping those who aspire to continue studies abroad to choose the most suitable language courses, summer schools, undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
Three years after the launch of UK Bridge, Kuridze and Vetsko established the first International Education Fair in Georgia. World-renowned educational institutions, including the University of St. Andrews, Kings College London, Naba & Domus Academy, Anglo-American University, Toulouse Business School and many others, travel to Georgia once a year to deliver information about their study programs to potential clientele.
By Ketevan Kvaratskheliya