Home > EDUCATION - Support for the Secondary Education Sector - Updated: 26-04-2002 11:24 am

Equitable access to appropriate learning and life skills programmes will be ensured, all forms of gender discrimination will be eliminated.    

There are four objectives for this project:
1 to support the renewal of secondary education through an intensive professional development (in-service training) programme for Principals and Headteachers to meet the immediate needs of the 2002 School Year;
2 to establish a process within the Department of Secondary Education and the Department of Compilation and Translation for the review of the secondary curriculum and current textbooks used for secondary education, to identify additional texts, (existing or needed),and to arrange for their preparation and/or translation into relevant languages for national use, in consultation with the the department responsible for curriculum development;
3 to provide support for the printing of new texts for secondary level subjects;
4 to develop and procure a package of simple mathematics equipment and science laboratory materials for use in Secondary schools.

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Start Date	30-04-2002 10:00 pm
End Date	29-04-2004 10:00 pm
Total Project Cost	US $ 2,800,000
Project Document	II7SecEducation.doc 59904 bytes (Download Help)
Lead Organization / Sector / Office	UNESCO
Associated Organization(s)	Ministry of Education Afghanistan