Binding EU Studies in the Education Policy of Georgia
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https://doi.org/10.22333/ijme.2024.8869Keywords:
EU Studies, education policy, Georgia, higher education program, MA law program, ethnic minorities.Abstract
EU Studies are importantly developed in Georgia. Almost all universities of Georgia include the teaching of EU law or EU-related other courses within different higher educational programs. But obligatory nature of EU studies is only inserted into specialized European Studies Programs and Master Law Programs in Georgia.
It could be stressed that enlargement, empowerment and making more and more binding EU studies should be the top agenda not only on higher education but also vocational and school levels. It is especially essential after the issuing of Enlargement Package 2023 from the EU side and granting the Candidacy to Georgia.
More and deeper Europeanisation leads the process to more internalization skills, competitiveness, knowledge of EU standards and policies, comparative studies, strategic communication and dissemination. Furthermore, the EU studies could play an important role in approaching the common understanding of Georgian European way. With this regard teaching empowerment in regions and among ethnic minorities is a particular issue.
Education and science are the instruments which should bring Georgia closer towards freedom, prosperity, better European perspective and membership in the EU.
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