The norm on a higher-education student's confidentiality in Georgia is written in a single article — the student-rights article of the Law on Higher Education — but within it sit three distinct rules: what is confidential, when it may be used, and how the information is stored. This page explains those three rules — and shows that the American FERPA frame does not operate here: the Georgian page is carried by the Georgian norm.
What is confidential
The law's formulation is precise: confidential are the personal information expressed by the student in the presence of academic personnel; information about the student's own views, faith and political convictions which became known to the latter during the learning process; and information about disciplinary measures taken against the student. These three categories go beyond the classroom: personal information is what the student said before a lecturer, not what he or she announced publicly.