To enable the optimal use of both infrastructure and human resources, a specific principle must be introduced into the higher education system: one city, one faculty. Prime Minister of Georgia said this at today’s hearing in the Parliament.

According to Irakli Kobakhidze, this applies primarily to Tbilisi, as state universities in other cities lack the resources to maintain more than one faculty.

“In Tbilisi, we have an over-fragmented system, which ultimately results in overall higher education quality being low and unsatisfactory.

The law faculty operates in 4 different universities in Tbilisi. In one case, the standard is average, in the 2nd, below average, in the 3rd, below average, and in the fourth, even lower. This is today’s reality, whilst optimization would enable us to ensure, very quickly, in the medium term, even within a four-year perspective, substantially the same quality and standard of legal education in Tbilisi as exists in developed states such as Germany, Great Britain and so forth”, - added the Prime Minister.