Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Education reformer who was fired makes comeback

Maia Miminoshvili comes back as head of a private consultancy that will make recommendations to her former employer, the Ministry of Education. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – An key figure in Georgia’s education reforms who was recently fired has made a comeback and launched her own consultancy to improve the education system.

“We plan to provide some recommendations to the Ministry of Education and vigorously

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Computer programmer goes missing in broad daylight

Mamuka Jibladze (54), a skilled computer programmer, went missing June 11 at two o'clock in the afternoon. Then, late Saturday night, he was spotted walking down the street by a surveillance camera, but is still considered missing.

TBILISI, DFWatch – A former employee of the Education Ministry went missing seven days ago. The disappearance happened at 2 o’ clock in the afternoon.

Mamuka Jibladze (54) wrote something called the CAT algorithm for the ministry; a program for translating exam

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