EDUCATION

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The objectives of the Second Education and Training Project are as follows: to improve primary and secondary education quality, targeting opportunities for the poor, and providing better access in the atolls; reduce the shortage of teachers; upgrade atoll primary teachers; focus on greater female participation; reduce skill shortages; upgrade staff at the health, vocational, management and teacher training institutions; increase fellowship training opportunities by allocating training to both public and private sector recipients; and strengthen financial management of the education sector. To achieve these objectives the project will: 1) establish an in-country lower secondary teacher training program and strengthen pre- and in-service primary teacher training programs; 2) improve access to secondary education in the atolls through building, equipping and staffing five lower secondary schools in the atolls; 3) develop in-country fee-paying skill training programs accessible to both public and private trainees, and support staff development in health, vocational and management education; 4) support overseas post-secondary fellowship training for qualified Maldivian students to fill critical skills gaps in the public sector and provide a pool of trained personnel to meet private sector labor market requirements; 5) establish more effective financial procedures and assist with management and policy support in the education sector; and 6) undertake priority studies in the education sector.