Student Conference Supported by ISET
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On April 15, ISET Policy Institute researcher Lasha Labadze attended a student conference on the topic of “Tourism Development Perspectives in Georgia and World Experience”. Organized by the Research and Planning Department of the Georgian National Tourism Administration, and supported by ISET along with other partners, the event aimed to involve students in improving and solving the issues that the country is facing today in the tourism industry. It gave the participants an opportunity to collaborate with each other as well as the national administration in order to carry out research and bring new ideas to the tourism sector.
All students from accredited universities - including vocational institutions in Georgia and abroad - had the chance to participate in the event. Around 100 projects were submitted, from which 20 were chosen to be presented during the event.
ISET President Sharing an Inspiring Story at Tbilisi TEDx
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Mr. Livny chose to devote his TEDx talk to the challenge of bringing education and light to Georgia’s remote villages. He told the story of Dzevri, a tiny village in Imereti, which used the help of an American couple, Cathy McLain and Roy Southworth, to revolutionize the local school. In just three years, college enrolment for local school graduates went from zero to almost 100%. These amazing results were achieved by giving students incentives in the form of a modest scholarship (covering the cost of tuition at a public college or university), and using volunteers’ help to organize a wide range of extracurricular activities (English classes, baseball, drama, etc.).
Mr. Livny emphasized the importance of exposing Georgian children to new role models in order to widen their world-view and give them something to strive for. He argued that one can achieve a lot by simply changing children’s motivation. This is a crucial point: progress is possible without a lot of investment in infrastructure or bureaucratic tinkering with teaching standards, certification, etc.
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