TBILISI, DFWatch–Students clashed with security guards and police at Tbilisi State University on Thursday while trying to prevent the election of a new chancellor of the university senate.
The assembly of the senate had to be canceled. Students continue
TBILISI, DFWatch–Vladimer Papava, an economics professor who was economy minister during President Shevardnadze in the 1990s, has been elected as rector of Tbilisi State University.
Papava was supported by ten of the board’s 12 members, the remaining two voted for Irma
TBILISI, DFWatch–Students at Tbilisi State University are planning a protest on Friday against the system of having the 12-member academic board of the institution elect a rector.
Organizers say it is not right that only 12 persons decide this, when there are more