Tracking Progress - One Reform at a Time

Reform: Vocational Education and Training Reform (2017-10-04)

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The reform is implemented by the Ministry of Education and Science in the framework of Vocational Educational and Training Development Strategy for 2013-2020

According to the Government

Vocational Educational and Training Development Strategy 2013-2020

The government’s formal progress (at the input and output level) in the target reform area is measured through a survey covering the following four dimensions:

  1. Institutional Setup
  2. Capacity Building
  3. Infrastructure & Budgeting
  4. Legislation & Regulations

The sets of indicators are designed to track progress on each dimension towards the system envisioned in the reform strategy. They cover all fundamental actions that have to be executed to create an optimal environment that will help achieve all reform objectives. Completion of all actions indicates achievement of the desired policy framework.

The sets of indicators captured by the questionnaires are used to measure distance from the stated reform objective on a scale from 0% (no action has taken place) to 100% (all desired systems are fully implemented, monitored and evaluated).

The questionnaires are filled out twice a year through face-to-face interviews with representatives of all agencies involved in the implementation of a particular reform.

According to the Stakeholders

The survey showed how the reform, including launch of the dual education system, which took off in 2013 revamped the whole structure of vocational education system. However, it will be difficult to achieve the desired results without active involvement of private sector. The private sector often believes that education, including vocational education, is the sole prerogative of the government. Therefore, the awareness of the private sector should be raised in this regard.

Each reform is evaluated, twice per year, by a group of stakeholders – at least 15 individuals not affiliated with the responsible agency, but directly affected by the reform.

The entire group of stakeholders are convened at ISET in order to review the results of the government survey, as well as objective data and information about reform outcomes, which are collected and analysed by the Project Team.

Each member of the group provides an anonymous quantitative assessment of the reform by answering the following questions:

1. What is your assessment of Georgia’s current performance in this area of reform?

2. Is the economic reform agenda progressing as expected?

3. Is the reform likely to deliver adequate results?

The total score for each reform is calculated as a simple average of individual assessments.

The overall assessment of the reform process is automatically provided through the ReforVerdict – a summary score, derived as a weighted average of scores assigned to each reform. The ReforVerdict score is adjusted on a monthly basis, following monthly stakeholder meetings.

  • Nodar Kharazishvili

    Gldani Vocational Training Center

  • Mamuka Janjalia

    College "Information Technologies Academy"

  • Tea Siprashvili

    Expert

  • Nika Kochishvili

    EU Delegation

  • Elene Jibladze

    Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

  • Jean Marc Castejon

    EUVEGE

  • Irina Inasaridze

    Association "Anika"

  • Rusiko Medzmariashvili

    BP

  • Tamar Kitiashvili

    UNDP Georgia

  • Mate Takidze

    College "Speqtri"

  • Giorgi Gamkrelidze

    Ministry of Economy

  • Tsisnami Sabadze

    Ministry of Economy

  • Shota Burjanadze

    Restaurant Association

  • Alex Chibarashvili

    Tegeta Motors

Outcomes

Objective and quantitative data reflects reform outcomes to be used as a proxy for reform effectiveness. 

  • Public

    N/A

  • Private

    N/A

  • Public

    2636 The value has gone up since last quarter

  • Private

    2320 The value has gone up since last quarter

  • Public

    1 The value has not changed since last quarter

  • Private

    0 The value has not changed since last quarter