{"id":3370,"date":"2020-11-23T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T09:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2020-11-23T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T09:26:55","slug":"school-of-english-develops-relationship-which-leads-to-erasmus-funding-to-support-educational-reform-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/11\/23\/school-of-english-develops-relationship-which-leads-to-erasmus-funding-to-support-educational-reform-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"School of English develops relationship which leads to Erasmus+ funding to support educational reform in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__content\">\n<p>Erasmus+ funding has been awarded to\u00a0the University of\u00a0Kent\u00a0to\u00a0lead a project supporting\u00a0higher education reform\u00a0in Georgia.\u00a0\u00a0Kent\u00a0will work with\u00a0Ilia State University\u00a0(ISU), which is based\u00a0in Georgia\u2019s capital,\u00a0Tbilisi\u00a0to support initiatives\u00a0focused\u00a0on\u00a0curriculum modernisation and internationalisation.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Kent&#8217;s School of English developed a relationship with ISU through research in the field of comparative literature. This connection developed into wider collaboration assessing the nature and durability of the effects of higher educational reforms in society. Professor Bela Tsipuria who was formerly the Georgian Deputy Minister of Education and Science, leads the project on ISU\u2019s side. The funding will also support students from Georgia to study for a term at Kent.<\/p>\n<p>The project reinforces the University of Kent\u2019s links in a key region for research collaboration as well as its engagement with the European Higher Education Area. Furthermore, the Erasmus+ project demonstrates the importance of the humanities in the evaluation of societal reforms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/people\/77\/ayers-david\">Professor David Ayers<\/a>,\u00a0Professor of Modernism and Critical Theory in the School of English and\u00a0Kent\u2019s academic lead for the project,\u00a0shares his views on the partnership:<\/p>\n<p><i>We have strong ties with Ilia State\u00a0<\/i><i>University<\/i><i>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/i><i>I am delighted that\u00a0<\/i><i>we have been able to create these opportunities for student and staff exchanges.\u00a0<\/i><i>ISU is now the leading university of Georgia and is going through a period of dynamic growth<\/i><i>, so this is an ideal moment for this collaboration which will\u00a0<\/i><i>bring new perspectives to both institutions, especially in the areas of literary studies and the arts and humanities<\/i><i>\u00a0more<\/i><i>\u00a0generally.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>To find out more about Kent\u2019s engagement with the international strand of Erasmus+, please contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/global\/partnerships\/news\/1603\/P.M.A.Paskins@kent.ac.uk\">Primrose Paskins<\/a> in International Partnerships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erasmus+ funding has been awarded to\u00a0the University of\u00a0Kent\u00a0to\u00a0lead a project supporting\u00a0higher education reform\u00a0in Georgia.\u00a0\u00a0Kent\u00a0will work with\u00a0Ilia State University\u00a0(ISU), which is based\u00a0in Georgia\u2019s capital,\u00a0Tbilisi\u00a0to support initiatives\u00a0focused\u00a0on\u00a0curriculum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/11\/23\/school-of-english-develops-relationship-which-leads-to-erasmus-funding-to-support-educational-reform-in-georgia\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":3371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,9111,26567],"tags":[25211,26578,239852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}