Education, Culture Ministries to Launch Optimization

Mikheil Chkhenkeli, the new Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, has stated that he plans to carry out optimization in the ministry.

According to the minister, one of the main departments where this will be carried out is in Youth Affairs, which was added to the ministry after the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs was abolished.

As a reminder, the Sports Department of the abolished ministry was merged with the Ministry of Culture, while Youth Affairs was added to the Education Ministry.

Chkhenkeli explained that the optimization includes the dismissal of some employees as well.

“Our main goal is to create a ministry which will deal with the existing challenges in education and science,” he added.

As for the Ministry of Culture, a new process will be launched also. Education Minister, Mikheil Giorgadze, also confirms that optimization will include reduction of staff as well.

He added that most of all, the aim of the whole process is to reduce administrative expenses.

“This process means the optimization of staff and administrative expenses, like transport, communication, administrating and so on. As soon as the structure is ready, we will evaluate each member of staff, and depending on their functions and responsibility, we will try to choose the best employees,” he noted.

The Prime Minister of Georgia, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, announced structural changes to the Government on November 13. The PM reshuffled the cabinet and reduced the number of ministries from 18 to 14.

By Thea Morrison

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