Programs

Qualification to be obtained:

Basic vocational qualification in culinary arts.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme:

Modular / Dual

Programe purpose:

The programme aims for preparation of a specialist in food products culinary for the local, as well as, international labour market, who will be able to work in the hotel or restaurant kitchen following food hygiene, sanitary norms and food safety standards.

Programme duration: Modular – 15 months / Dual – 24 months

Eligibility criteria: basic education

Expected results: 

• Ability to carry primary and hand processing of food products and materials;
  • Carry out thermal processing of raw materials and products;
  • Cook simple dishes;
  • Cook widespread main dishes and garnishes from Georgian cuisine;
  • Cook common main dishes and garnishes of the international cuisine;
  • Determine amount of products required for a specific dish;
  • Carry out ordering and receiving-storage of the products and other supporting materials;
  • Record expired and spoiled products.

Employment opportunities:

A graduate with a basic professional qualification in the Culinary Arts has an opportunity to be employed in any hotel, restaurant and other catering establishments, where they plan, organize and cook products, in the following positions: personnel in food catering service, cooks, cook assistants.

Qualification to be obtained:

Basic vocational qualification in confectionery.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme:

Modular / Dual

The programme purpose:

The programme aims for preparation of confectionery specialist, who is able to make different confectionary products following sanitary and hygiene norms and food safety standards.

Programme duration: Modular – 16 months / Dual – 24 months

Eligibility criteria: basic education

Expected results: 

• Making different bakery products, including, brioche;
  • Making hot-dog, toast bread;
  • Making croissant, Danish rolls, cakes;
  • Making confectionery creams, soufflé, marshmallow ganache;
  • Making syrup, confectionery sauce, frost, jelly, marmalade, jam, confiture, glaze;
  • Making chocolate, sugar paste, marzipan and caramel;
  • Making cold and warm desserts;
  • Developing sketch and drawing for a celebration cake;
  • Baking different types of cakes;
  • Record expired and spoiled product.

Employment opportunities:

A graduate with a basic vocational qualification of confectioner has an opportunity to be employed in the confectioneries, bakeries, supermarkets, different class restaurants, cafes, hotels, resort, entertainment, tourism facilities on the following positions: baker, chocolate maker, confectioners and sweets makers. A graduate may start its own business for self-employment.

Qualification to be obtained:

Middle vocational qualification in restaurant service.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme:

Dual

The programme purpose:

The programme purpose is to prepare the restaurant service specialists for the local and international labour market as well.

Programme duration:  – 24 months

Programme eligibility criteria: full secondary education

Expected results:

• Providing service and serving in restaurant and cafe;
  • Carrying procurement and supply monitoring;
  • Developing a business plan for a catering facility;
  • Developing a financial plan for a catering facility;
  • Control a facility working monitoring;
• Organize the working process;
  • Organize celebrations, presentations, business meetings, conferences;
  • Ensure implementation of sanitary-hygiene norms;
  • Provide issue management.

Employment opportunities:

A graduate of the middle vocational qualification in catering service has an opportunity to be employed in the restaurants, cafes and fast food facilities in the following positions: waiter, personnel of the catering service facilities. A graduate may start its own business for self-employment.

Qualification to be obtained:

third level vocational qualification of bartender.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme: Modular

The programme purpose:

The programme purpose is to prepare bartenders responsible for daily working of a bar, satisfaction of the guests and staff, following safety and hygiene standards, who ensures product quality and is involved in its selling following service standards.

Programme duration:  11 – months

Programme eligibility criteria: basic education, age – 18.

Expected results:

• Making and serving alcoholic drinks according to the standard;
  • Making and serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails;
  • Making and serving hot non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks;
• Carrying financial settlement according to the defined rules;
  • Following security norms;
  • Opening (mise en place) and closing of working day;
  • Communicating in English language regarding professional activities;
  • Providing first aid when needed;
  • Monitoring of following personal hygiene and sanitary-hygiene norms by the personnel in the catering facility.

Employment opportunities:

After the programme completion, a graduate has an opportunity to be employed as a bartender in the different types of food catering service: bar, café, restaurant, club, casino, hotel complex, destination resort, entertainment centre, cruise ship (in case of relevant maritime training) and other facilities.

Qualification to be obtained:

basic vocational qualification in floor and tile works.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme:

Modular / Dual

Programme purpose:

The programme purpose is to give an opportunity to learn about floor and tile works, to give relevant knowledge in the mentioned qualification for developing skills and competencies, so the graduate is able to use knowledge received into practice and be highly qualified, competitive employee in the construction field.

Programme duration: modular – 15 months / dual – 24 months

Programme eligibility criteria: basic education

Expected results:

• Prepare floor and walls for facing works;
  • Sorting tiles of different shapes;
  • Cutting tiles in different shapes;
  • Preparing grout and glue-cement mixture for laying tiles and mosaic tiles;
  • Laying terracotta, granite, vinyl, soft or other types of floors;
  • Carrying screeding of concrete and polymeric industrial floor;
  • Refining dry floor made from mortar and sand-cement solution;
  • Arranging under tile hydro isolation;
  • Arranging wood floor following the safety standards.

Employment opportunities:

A person with a basic vocational qualification in floor and tile works has an opportunity to be employed on construction of urban and industrial buildings on open or/and closed spaces and heights. A graduate may be self-employed or be employed in different types of construction-repairs and designing companies, public or private producing establishments, where work is related to construction or reconstruction-strengthening of buildings. S/he has to work in different climate conditions. Perspective positions are:
• Specialist in making different floors;
• Worker for facing works;
• Layer of tiles;
• Head of working force;
• Head of brigade.

Qualification to be obtained:

basic vocational qualification in developing construction structures.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme:  Dual

Programme purpose:

The programme purpose is to give an opportunity to learn about developing construction structures regarding stone works specialization, to give relevant knowledge in the mentioned qualification, support developing skills and competencies, so the graduate is able to use knowledge received into practice and be highly qualified, competitive employee in the construction field.

Programme duration:   – 24 months

Programme eligibility criteria: basic education

Expected results:

A person with a basic vocational qualification in developing construction structures (specialisation – stone works) is able to:
• Develop walls and structure elements (bulkhead, arch, cove) from natural and artificial stone;
• Repair walls with natural and artificial stone and structure elements (bulkhead, arch, cove);
• Restore foundations;
• Arrange foundations;
• Arrange riprap and riprap concrete walls following the safety standards;
• Carry out facing works of façade with a natural and artificial stone;
• Restore wall and stone structures, damaged fragments, cracks;
• Clean wall and stone structures, damaged fragments, cracks;
• Carry out isolation works during ongoing stone works.

Employment opportunities:

A person with a basic vocational qualification in developing construction structures has an opportunity to be employed on a construction of urban and industrial buildings on open spaces and heights. A graduate may be self-employed or be employed in different types of construction-repairs and designing companies, public or private producing establishments, where the work is related to construction or reconstruction-strengthening of buildings. S/he has to work in different climate conditions. Perspective positions are:

• Developer of stone (artificial, natural) structures;
• Stone-mason;
• Head of working force;
• Head of brigade.

qualification to be obtained: basic vocational qualification in developing construction structures.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme:  Dual

Programme duration:  – 24 months

Programme eligibility criteria: basic education

Expected results:

After the programme completion, a graduate is able to:
• Make casting box and reinforcement (bar mat, space and flat frames)
• Lay concrete in ready casting box
• Take concrete samples
• Maintain concrete
• Carry out installation works of plastic, reinforced concrete and metal structures
• Carry out installation works of wood structures (bearing and non-bearing walls, ladders, casting box)
• Perform hydro isolation works on bearing and non-bearing structures
• Implement consistent dismantling works of structures according to the safety standards.

Employment opportunities:

A person with a basic vocational qualification in developing construction structures has an opportunity to be employed on a construction of urban and industrial buildings on open spaces and heights. A graduate may be self-employed or be employed in different types of construction-repairs and designing companies, public or private producing establishments, where work is related to construction (monolith, precast), or reconstruction-strengthening of buildings. S/he has to work in different climate conditions. Perspective positions are: Developer of monolith structures (foundation, load distribution structure, walls, column, covering tile, etc.); Installer of precast structures (foundation, column, tile, crossbar, beam, etc.); head of working force; head of brigade.

Qualification to be obtained:

basic vocational qualification in roads construction.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme: Dual

Programme purpose:

The programme purpose is to prepare qualified specialists in the roads construction, who are able to construct, provide service, infrastructure maintenance, repair works, reconstruction and rehabilitation for roads.

Programme duration:  – 24 months

Programme eligibility criteria: basic education, age – 18.

Expected results:

A person with a basic vocational qualification in roads construction, in particular “motor roads construction”, is able to:
• Manage information on the profession;
• Describe key principles of organizational arrangement in the specific profession;
• Define and implement specific goals for professional growth and development;
• Select construction materials, tools and equipment;
• Check pre-condition of roadbed for arrangement of pavement;
• Perform asphalt concrete laying works in the work station;
• Perform cement concrete pavement works in the work station;
• Perform floor tile laying works in the work station;

• Manage road material waste;
  • Reveal damaged sections of existing motor road;
  • Participate in the process of traffic restriction of the roads;
  • Repair damaged sections of motor road cover;
  • Proceed repaired section into operation.

Employment opportunities:

After completion of the programme on motor road construction, a graduate has an opportunity to be employed in the public or private organizations, whose work is related to the roads construction, rehabilitation and operation.

Qualification to be obtained:

basic qualification in electricity

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme: Modular

Programme purpose:

The programme purpose is to prepare competitive professionals in low voltage electricity considering the labor market requirements.

Programme duration:  – 9 months

Programme eligibility criteria: basic education

Expected results:

Basic vocational qualification
A person with the vocational qualification in electricity is able to:
• Provide first aid to the victim;
• Use electric technologies, means for electricity production, transfer and distribution;
• Install and check lighting and electric circuit in household and small production cases;
• Gather and use engineering information through the Information and Communication Technology (ICT);
• Calculate value, area of figures and use statistical methods for data visualisation;
• Read and draw engineering sketches through different techniques, including, the Computer Aided Design (CAD);
• Develop and present the project.

Employment opportunities:

A graduate has an opportunity to be employed in any organization as a service provider for electric machines and other electric equipment.
Perspective employment positions are:
• Electrician;
• Installer of electro technical systems;
• Building electrician;
• Supplier-electrician;
• Electro-mechanic;
• Installer of electrical wiring and fittings;
• Installer of lighting system;
• Installer of fire alarming system;
• Installer of security alarm;
• Installer of street lighting and electrical alarming devices;
• Installer of lighting in landing-taking off runway;
• Installer of solar energy electrical collectors.

qualification to be obtained:

Highest vocational qualification in computer network administration.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme: Modular

Programme duration:  – 24 months

Programme eligibility criteria: full secondary education

Expected results:

After the programme completion, a graduate is able to:
• Arrange physical and logical topology of the computer network;
• Configure EIGRP and OSPF routing protocols;
• Define the global network technologies;
• Arrange allocated channels;
• Organize access to remote offices;
• Identify/eliminate network errors;
• Configure SNMP and Netflow protocols;
• Develop and manage Access Control List (ACL);
• Develop virtual private network;
• Distinguish current threats related to network security;
• Ensure security of network devices;
• Expanded configuration of ACL (Access Control Lists);
• Distinguish current methods required for protection from network attacks;
• Ensure local network security;
• Brandmauer configuration.

Employment opportunities:

A person with the highest vocational qualification in the computer network administration has an opportunity to be employed in the public and private organizations in the information technologies service, in particular, network infrastructure administration. S/he may be employed at senior position or work as a vocational education teacher.

Qualification to be obtained:

Middle vocational qualification in computer network and systems.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme: Modular

(integrated) / Modular (not integrated)

Programme purpose:

The purpose of the vocational education programme on computer network and systems is to prepare specialist qualified in computer network and systems, who has the skills on provision of computer hardware-software, organization and management of small size network, administration of the basic server services; has knowledge on key facts, principles, processes and general concepts in the field, acknowledges complicated steps to be taken for performing difficult tasks.

Programme duration:  Modular (integrated) 3 years / Modular (non-integrated)- 2 years.

Programme eligibility criteria: Modular – full secondary education / integrated – basic education.

Expected results:

After the programme completion, a graduate is able to:

• Describe required procedures for setting up server infrastructure;
  • Install Windows and Linux server operational systems;
  • Basic administration of central Directory Service;
  • Basic administration of the network address management system (DHCP);
  • Basic administration of Domain Name System (DNS);
  • Basic management of files and printing server;
  • Basic arrangement of server virtualisation technology;
  • Manage Linux installation packages;
  • Use of commands in Linux and UNIX operational systems;
  • Manage Linux file system;
  • Basic arrangement of physical and logical topology of the computer network;
  • Configure statistical routes;
  • Basic configuration of the dynamic routing;
  • Basic configuration of commutator;
  • Basic configuration of virtual local network.

Employment opportunities:

A person with the middle vocational qualification in the Computer Network and System, has an opportunity to be employed in any public/municipal organization or/and private ownership companies, that use information technologies, as a computer system and network technician in small and medium office networks, whose responsibilities include arrangement-administration of computer systems with hardware-software and network services.

Qualification to be obtained:

Basic vocational qualification in information technology support.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme: Modular.

Programme purpose:

The programme purpose is to prepare competitive and qualified specialist in information technologies field and hardware-software provision for personal computer, who has special technical skills required for installation of hardware and operational systems, updating, elimination of errors, optimization, diagnosis and service provision; has essential knowledge on key facts, principles, processes and general concepts in the field, acknowledges required steps to be taken for performing difficult tasks.

Programme duration: – 11 months.

Programme eligibility criteria: basic education.

Expected results:

A person with the basic vocational qualification in Information Technologies is able to:
• Assemble and set up a personal computer;
• Install peripheral devices;
• Install and set up operational system;
• Install application software;
• Ensure security for operational system;
• Differentiate fundamental principles and types of networks;
• Review layers and relevant ports and protocols operating on those layers in the information exchange models (TCP/IP,OSI) of the network;
• Arrange simple wired and wireless internal network;
• Assess hardware and software risks and define prevention measures;
• Identify hardware and software related problems and eliminate accordingly.

Employment opportunities:

A graduate of the vocational education programme has an opportunity to be employed as a technical support specialist in any public/municipal organization or/and private company, who are using information technologies.

Qualification to be obtained:

Third level vocational qualification in sewing specialist.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme: Modular

Programme purpose:

The programme purpose is to prepare a sewing specialist, who is skilled to sew different clothes, develop sketches for sewing, select/use materials, tools, sewing machines and thermal devices, carry constructive-technological processing of clothing. The programme aims for preparing highly qualified specialist, who will perform obligations following quality and safety standards. The specialist will be equipped with the professional and general/transfer skills.

Programme duration:  – 17 months

Programme eligibility criteria: basic education.

Expected results:

After the programme completion, a graduate is able to:
• Organized working place;
• Develop sketches for different clothes;

• Constructive/technological processing of female dresses;
• Constructive/technological processing of man suits;
• Constructive/technological processing of kids coats.

Employment opportunities:

After the programme completion, a graduate has an opportunity to be employed as a field specialist in large, medium or small enterprises, fashion ateliers.

Qualification to be obtained:

Basic vocational qualification in sewing production.

Approaches for implementation of the vocational education programme: Modular

Programme purpose:

The programme purpose is to prepare highly qualified specialist in the sewing production, who has skills for construction, modelling and developing of female, male, children clothing and different purpose sewing products, sewing and decorative designing of Georgian traditional clothes, tailoring, re-designing and repairing of clothes, selecting/using sewing machines and thermal-wetting devices and controlling sewing product quality.

Programme duration:  – 19 months

Programme eligibility criteria: basic education.

Expected results:

After the programme completion, a graduate is able to:
• Ensure safe working place;
• Develop composition for different purpose clothes;
• Select basic and supporting materials for making sewing product, develop sketch and cut out cloth;
• Use different purpose sewing machines and thermal-wetting processing devices for making clothing;
• Provide technological processing of clothing details and key nodes;
• Calculate primary data for constructive planning of woman, man and child clothing;
• Carry out constructive planning and modelling of women, man and child clothing;
• Decorate Georgian national clothes;
• Develop Georgian national clothes in material;
• Develop women’s clothing in material;
• Develop men’s clothing in material;
• Develop children’s clothing in material;
• Develop different purpose sewing products in material;
• Tailor clothes;
• Repair damaged sections of clothes.

Employment opportunities:

A person with the basic vocational qualification in sewing production has an opportunity to be employed as a tailor and constructor in large, medium or small size sewing enterprises, fashion salons.