Central

Ministry of Education and Science:

• Defines the state policy;
• Establishes secondary vocational education institution (VET) , approve its functions, licences the body and monitor performance and may reorganise, liquidate or dismiss directors of VET institutions;
• Determine the conditions and procedure to recognise VET received in a foreign country and the recognitions informal VET

 State Accreditation Service for Educational Institutions

• Sets out the vocational education institution accreditation criteria, processes and procedures.
  

Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection

• Roles in establishing artistic-creative VET institutions

Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs

• Roles in establishing SportsVET institutions 

National Centre for Teacher Professional Development

• Sets out and monitors the professional ethics code of a VET teacher.

Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara and Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia

• Implementation of a unified state policy in the field of vocational education in the territory of the respective autonomous republic as well
• Establishing VET.
   

Responsible authorities/bodies

Ministry of Education and Science:
State Accreditation Service for Educational Institutions
Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection
Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs
National Centre for Teacher Professional Development
Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara and the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia 
 

Local

• Support the activities of VET institutions ;
• Establish legal non-commercial VET institution;
• Participate in the management of VET institutions; and
• May be authorised to finance VET institutions;

Responsible authorities/bodies

• Municipalities

Sources

• Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia
• Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara
• Institute of Social Studies and Analysis, 2011, Social Protection and Social Inclusion in Georgia commissioned by the European Commission
• Law of Georgia on Vocational Education and Training, 2013:
• Local Self Government Code:
• Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection
• Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection: http://www.culture.gov.ge/
• Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs
• Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs
• National Centre for Teacher Professional Development