On the 10th of June, at Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences a Round Table was organized which was dedicated to the problem of preparing qualified specialists in agrarian sciences to discussion of future perspectives.
           Besides the members of the Academy, the invited guests, such as, Prof. G. Kvartskhava, the Dean of Bio-system Engineering Faculty, and TSU professors I. Kruashvili and G. Gagoshidze , D. Gubaladze. Z. Lobjhanidze, the deans of Agrarian University – Makaridze and Chkuaseli, and others also were present at the Round Table discussion.
             From the side of the GAAS, the members who are involved in pedagogical activities in higher education institutions participated in the work of the Round Table; academicians: G margvelashvili, R. Makharoblidze, J. Katsitaze, A. Didebulidze, J. Gugushvili, A. Giorgadze.
     The Round Table was opened by G. Japaridze, the Vice President speech focused on significance if the subject of discussion. E. Shapakidze presented the information regarding current situation in the field of agrarian education and mentioned that there are professional, governmental and non-governmental /private colleges functioning in the country; the total number of the colleges is 71 out of which 40% are focused on agrarian education. Also, there are 96 higher educational institutions and 6 of them are state agrarian universities and one is a private agrarian university. Besides, 8 private universities have agrarian programs. It should be mentioned that there is a big gap in the direction of bio-engineering education; there are very few doctorate students and no master degree students in this direction.
            According to information of regional consulting centers, there is a lack of specialists in the field of agro-engineering. Considering the fact that the regions are now provided with the agro techniques, and machines from 13 different countries, the problem raised by the regions look very serious.
Regarding the abovementioned problem different opinions were expressed by the Round Table participants who finally came to the following conclusion:
1. The Academy should regularly discuss agrarian educational programs of technical University and other higher educational institutions; prepare documents with relevant remarks and proposals and sent to the Accreditation Center.
2. The Academy should be involved in the monitoring process of agrarian professional development programs with permission of the Ministry of Sciences and Education;
3. The members of the Academy should be involved in preparation of the text books of agrarian direction;
4. The higher institutions which have signed the memorandum on partnership with the Academy first have to check the validity of their education programs at the Academy.
5. It is advisable to present the information about the pedagogical activities of the members of the Academy at the meetings;
6. The exited programs in: agro-engineering, agronomy, technology should be revised and in some cases fully changed.
7. On the basis of the GAAS, the Commission which will study the existed situation in the higher education institutions and prepare the remarks and conclusions to be presented to the Government regarding the study programs in agrarian field was set up.
8. The Round Table participants gave a negative assessment to the existed project regarding education field classification project and adopted a resution to address the Ministry of Education to revise the classification considering the opinion of the academy members.