GENERAL EDUCATION

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This five year project will support a number of important Government policy objectives for the sector, especially those in primary education. Specifically the project will : a) increase equitable access to primary and secondary schooling; b) improve the quality of education at the primary and secondary levels; c) strengthen the management capacity of the primary and secondary subsectors; and d) prepare future policies and programs to reform the structure and financing of higher secondary and post secondary levels. Project components cover three broad categories : 1) expanding equitable access to primary and secondary schooling; 2) improving the quality of general education; and 3) institutional development. Specifically these components include : a) increasing access to primary schooling through construction or repair of 22,000 classrooms; b) increasing proportion of female teachers; c) testing the use of satellite schools to reach the very poor and girls; d) increase the quality and efficiency of secondary education by strengthening the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education; e) reforming th examination system; f) improving textbooks and curricula; g) expanding the existing secondary school scholarship program for poor girls; and h) finance Government studies of policy and program options in higher and post secondary education.