The Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia is starting the first stage of the competition for those who want to become a principal of a public school. The date, time and duration of the test for the interested candidates have been determined. Testing in electronic form will be held on January 22, 2023 in one session. The test start time is 12:00 noon.

Applicants must appear at the examination centre one hour before the beginning of the test for registration and must bring an identity card or passport with them. Applicants will not be admitted to the test if they are late, or do not have an ID card or a passport.

Those individuals who registered from February 3, 2020 to February 17, 2020 and from October 24 to December 16, 2022, and did not request cancellation of registration and return of the money paid for registration, will be able to participate in the test.

Duration of testing is 5 hours. Those individuals with eyesight and/or vision problems, will be given an additional 30 minutes. In order to extend the testing time, persons with vision problems must apply in advance to the Education Management Information System of the Ministry of Education and submit an appropriate application along with a medical report. 

Information about examination centres will be published on January 17, 2023 on the following website - https://directors.mes.gov.ge.

In case of successful passing of the test, the applicants for directorship will move to the next stage of certification, which involves an interview. 

We remind you that the exam program and test samples for director candidates are available on the website https://directors.mes.gov.ge from October 24, 2022, and the recordings of the conducted webinars can be viewed on the website - https://el.ge/webinars/subjects/101? filter=ended. 

One of the priorities of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia is to attract highly qualified and worthy personnel to the position of school principal, under conditions of healthy competition. Several important steps have been taken in this direction in recent years. Among them, the Ministry developed a new concept school management, based on which, in 2022, in cooperation with international partners, the updated standard of the school director was prepared.