Primary education for disadvantaged children project extended
VGP – The PM just agreed to prolong the implementation of the Primary Education for Disadvantaged Children Project, funded by the World Bank, to December 31 next year.
The
State Bank of Việt
The
Ministry of Education and Training will map out the implementation of the
project, closely supervise and speed up the disbursement of the WB’s capital sources,
and suggest the WB spend the remaining US $5 million on new items which will be
carried out in the coming years.
The
project aims at bringing all children to primary schools by 2010; enriching
disadvantaged children’s opportunities to access to primary schools and better
quality education.
The
project also helps to improve primary educational services in disadvantaged districts
and schools.
A
focus is placed on reducing the number of disadvantaged children, ethnic minority
children, disabled children, poor children and street children who cannot go to
school, so as to increase the primary education enrollment.
By Hồng Hạnh
