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Private or commercial providers Employers and companies
Companies and employers make a very modest
Private universities contribution to adult education in Georgia. Small
There are 82 universities in Georgia, 30 of which and medium-sized companies are facing difficul-

provide all levels of higher education training, in- ty with workforce training, which is difficult for
cluding Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral pro- them to afford . Larger companies have a clear
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grammes . The remaining universities are so- advantage in this respect, as they have much
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called “teaching universities” – meaning that they more resources for in-house training. However,
do not engage in doctoral training and research. not many of them are yet investing in workforce
The majority (63) of the 82 universities are private. development. According to a study by the Minis-
try of Economics and Sustainable Development,

Apart from teaching regular academic courses, only 8% of the enterprises surveyed provided
only a few universities in Georgia provide extra- training to their employees . This primarily in-
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curricular adult education courses. Some of the cluded companies in wholesale and retail trade,
private universities operate career development construction and health and social work activi-
centres for their students and graduates. For in- ties.
stance, the Georgian-American University 109 and
the University of Georgia provide a somewhat Some prominent examples include:
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advanced set of services. They maintain online • The Goodwill training centre, which is run by
databases of their students’/graduates’ CVs, the large supermarket chain Goodwill. It oper-

as well as a database of vacancies sourced by ates to prepare managers for the company, as
their partner employers. This enables students well as to provide continuous training for staff.
or employers to easily search for vacancies or • The TBC Bank IT Academy – The academy
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employees, respectively. On top of this, the ca- offers courses to interested individuals
reer centres of these universities carry out regu- in several IT fields, specifically: front-end
lar training series (for example on CV writing or development, back-end development, An-
preparation for job interviews) and events (e.g. droid mobile development, IOS mobile

job forums) to better facilitate their students’ la- development, UX research and Strategy and
bour market integration. Caucasus University Test Automation. It also runs a programme in
operates a training centre which provides a wide “Risk Management” for final-year university
range of courses for students and adults alike . students who wish to study the field and seek
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It operates on a commercial basis, and develops a career in a TBC bank. It is important to note
training programmes in accordance with its cli- that all the training activities at the Academy
ents’ requirements. are offered for free.

108 Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, Authorised Higher Education Institutions website
109 Georgian-American University website
110 University of Georgia website
111 Caucasus University website
112 Posadas, J. et al. (2018). Georgia at Work: Assessing the Jobs Landscape
113 Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia (2020). Survey of Businesses’ Demand for Skills
114 TBC Bank IT Academy website

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