Authorization Standards for General Education Institutions refer to:

a) School philosophy;

b) School curriculum;

c) Administrative and infrastructural support of the learning process;

d) Students support.

In order to obtain the status of the general education institution, the procedure for submitting the authorization application to the Center is determined by the individual administrative-legal act of the Director of the Center, according to which the general educational institution is obliged to attach the following documents to the application submitted to the center:

a) self-assessment form filled in by the applicant for the status of a general educational institution;

b) a document confirming the payment of the application review fee;

c) additional attachments, with which the institution confirms the performance of the indicator/criterion/component of the standards. The authorization application must be accompanied by a document confirming the payment of the authorization application review fee.

The decision of the Authorization Council can be appealed if the educational institution does not agree with it. The decision can be appealed following the rules and within the time-frame by submitting an appeal to the Appeals Council (Address: Merab Aleksidze Street, Second Lane N2) or by filing a complaint with the Administrative Cases Panel of the Tbilisi City Court (Address: D. Agmashenebeli Alley No. 64).

Fee for the review of authorization application is 500 GEL.

In case of recognition of the status of a general educational institution as a seeker, the general educational institution pays the authorization fee in the following amount:

a) in case of implementation of the primary level educational program only, for educational institutions located in Tbilisi, Mtskheti and Rustavi municipalities - 5,384.00 GEL, and for educational institutions located in other municipalities of Georgia - 6,816.00 GEL;

b) only in case of implementation of the basic level educational program, for educational institutions located in Tbilisi, Mtskheti and Rustavi municipalities - 5,718.00 GEL, and for educational institutions located in other municipalities of Georgia - 7,038.00 GEL;

c) only in case of implementation of secondary education program for educational institutions located in Tbilisi, Mtskheti and Rustavi municipalities - 5 496.00 GEL, and for educational institutions located in other municipalities of Georgia - 6 816.00 GEL;

d) in case of implementation of educational programs of only primary and basic or only primary and secondary levels, for educational institutions located in Tbilisi, Mtskheti and Rustavi municipalities - 7,496.00 GEL, and for educational institutions located in other municipalities of Georgia - 9,038.00 GEL;

e) in case of implementation of educational programs of basic and secondary levels only, for educational institutions located in Tbilisi, Mtskheti and Rustavi municipalities - 7,273.00 GEL, and for educational institutions located in other municipalities of Georgia - 8,927.00 GEL;

f) In case of implementation of the educational program of primary, basic and secondary levels of general education, for educational institutions located in Tbilisi, Mtskheti and Rustavi municipalities - 9,162.00 GEL, and for educational institutions located in other municipalities of Georgia - 11,372.00 GEL.

A person seeking the status of a general educational institution based in the form of a private legal entity outside the Tbilisi Municipality, who indicates less than 170 places in the authorization application, enjoys a one-time discount of 50% of the fees established by the "authorization fee of educational institutions".

In such a case, if the general educational institution applies to the center within 2 years from the granting of the authorization to increase the maximum number of places for students and indicates 170 or more places in the application, the general educational institution will additionally pay the amount of money that was provided at the initial authorization stage, along with the fee established for increasing the number of student places. Based on the benefit, it was not paid by him. The mentioned condition will not apply to the cases when the general educational institution exceeds the maximum number of student places determined by the council in the cases established by the law.

Requisites required for transferring payment to the Treasury: 

Recipient Bank - State Treasury 
Recipient Name - Unified Treasury Account 
Bank Code - TRESGE22 
Recipient Account / Treasury Code - 707637113 (LEPL - Service Fee for the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement)

At least 180 calendar days in advance.

Decisions on authorization or on the denial of authorization shall be made within 180 calendar days upon the official submission of the document confirming the payment of the authorization fee to the Center.

If granting an authorization is refused, the general education institution status seeker won't obtain the status of the general education institution, and in case of termination of authorization, the institution will lose the status of the general education institution.

In the cases, a student must exercise the right to mobility or his/her status as a student will be suspended in accordance with the current legislation of Georgia.

A general education institution is obliged to carry out an annual self-evaluation.

The terms for submission of the self-evaluation report shall be determined by an individual administrative‐legal act of the Director of the Center, which is published for general audience.

Authorization is valid for 9 years

The decision of the Council is published on the website of the Center within 10 working days after its receipt. Along with the decision, the report of the experts' panel and the minutes of the Council meeting are published on the website of the Center.

The list of authorized General Education Institutions is in the section - "Quality Assurance of General Education". (https://eqe.ge/en/page/static/93/zogadsaganmanatleblo-datsesebulebebi)