EDUCATION I

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The proposed project would provide financing for: (a) the construction and equipping of: the country's first primary teacher training institute, which would also operate as the national education center; two pilot basic education/skill training centers for over-age youths and for adults; and the country's first agricultural secondary school; (b) technical assistance which would include: the principal officers of the project implementation unit and education consultants, financed by the proposed loan; project institution staffing and counterpart training, financed by the UNDP and the British Overseas Development Administration; and an advisory group of eight Unesco specialists for a combined total of about 23 man-years, financed by the UNDP, to advise the Ministry of Education on (i) the management of the Ministry of Education and of the education system as a whole, (ii) school building design and construction, and (iii) the improvement and planned development of the education system to meet in the most appropriate manner the nation's projected needs for trained manpower.