ID-EAST JAVA & NTT JR. SECONDARY EDUC.

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The East Java and East Nusa Tenggara Junior Secondary Education Project will assist the government of Indonesia in addressing the quality and coverage of junior secondary education (JSE) in the provinces of East Java and East Nusa Tenggara. The project's objectives are to: 1) expand access to JSE in a cost-effective and equitable way; 2) improve the teaching of JSE; and 3) strengthen the management capacity at all levels of the education system. The project comprises three major components: 1) access to JSE including: (a) increase in the number of places available at junior secondary level by adding classrooms to existing schools and building new schools located closer to the potential JSE demand; (b) provision of existing and new Open JSE with instructional material and training for tutors; (c) help to promising but poor students to get access to JSE through the expansion and improvement of the existing scholarship program; and (d) stimulation of the demand for JSE through a social marketing effort; 2) education quality consisting of: (a) provision of training to underqualified teachers; (b) teacher dormitories to insure the presence of teachers in remote areas; (c) construction of library rooms and provision of library books; (d) study of best teaching methods for science education; and (e) establishment of a Student Performance Assessment to provide teachers and principals with academic feedback; and 3) education management including: (a) expansion of the managerial skills of staff at central, provincial, district, sub-district and school levels; (b) improvement of the information management and utilization; and (c) augmentation of the equipment in province and district offices.