planned as part of the 2009 annual budget, commission with regional representations to Management Committee on the implementation of such construction and with respect to which construction and monitor and evaluate school construction by, program; and (b) ensuring that management responsibilities have been and provide technical support to, these starting Fiscal Year 2011, the school transferred to the urban Commune in which Communes. construction programs in at least 12 the relevant school complex is located. of said Municipalities have been finalized and initiated only after such consultations with their Local Education Management Committees. Issuance by the Recipient's ministry In order to reduce teaching deficit in math and The Recipient has introduced a new The new university teacher training responsible for Secondary Education of science, the Recipient has prepared training distance education training program programs for math and science are in guidelines (note de cadrage) dated June 15, modules in math and science for certificate for students training to become math place 2009, for the development of a national teaching courses for university students to be and/or science teachers in Secondary strategy for reducing the deficit of teachers in used for regular and distance education courses. Schools and has enrolled at least Secondary Education, and establishment of an twenty-five new students in said ad hoc committee comprised of program for Academic Year representatives of all interested ministries of the Recipient, to be responsible for the preparation of a proposed strategy consistent with said guidelines, to be submitted for approval by the Recipient's Cabinet not later than August 15, 2009. Improving Internal efficiency Issuance by the Recipient's ministries In order to reduce the repetition rate and Repetition rates go from 10.6% in responsible for Basic Education and increase the chances to successfully 2008/09 to 10,12% in 2009/10, to 10% in students’ Secondary Education respectively of an complete each teaching cycle, the Recipient has 2010/11and 2011/12, and then to 8% en inter-ministerial regulation (arrêté), limiting the trained the teachers to enable them to teach the 2015 in Primary; repetition by students of grades between two curriculum as a unified program by cycle (as * Repetition rate goes down from 25.7% prohibiting repetition by students of opposed to a succession of annual programs in 2008/09 to 24.6% in 2009/10, to grades within each sub-cycle in Primary within the cycle). 19.2% in 2010/11, to 16.5% in 2011/12, Education, and limiting the repetition by and then to 9% en 2015 in lower students of grades in the first cycle of
planned as part of the 2009 annual budget, and with respect to which construction and management responsibilities have been transferred to the urban Commune in which the relevant school complex is located. commission with regional representations to monitor and evaluate school construction by, and provide technical support to, these Communes. Management Committee on the implementation of such construction program; and (b) ensuring that starting Fiscal Year 2011, the school construction programs in at least 12 of said Municipalities have been finalized and initiated only after such consultations with their Local Education Management Committees. Issuance by the Recipient's ministry responsible for Secondary Education of guidelines (note de cadrage) dated June 15, 2009, for the development of a national strategy for reducing the deficit of teachers in Secondary Education, and establishment of an ad hoc committee comprised of representatives of all interested ministries of the Recipient, to be responsible for the preparation of a proposed strategy consistent with said guidelines, to be submitted for approval by the Recipient's Cabinet not later than August 15, 2009. In order to reduce teaching deficit in math and science, the Recipient has prepared training modules in math and science for certificate teaching courses for university students to be used for regular and distance education courses. The Recipient has introduced a new distance education training program for students training to become math and/or science teachers in Secondary Schools and has enrolled at least twenty-five new students in said program for Academic Year The new university teacher training programs for math and science are in place Improving Internal efficiency Issuance by the Recipient's ministries responsible for Basic Education and Secondary Education respectively of an inter-ministerial regulation (arrêté), limiting the repetition by students of grades between two prohibiting repetition by students of grades within each sub-cycle in Primary Education, and limiting the repetition by students of grades in the first cycle of In order to reduce the repetition rate and increase the students’ chances to successfully complete each teaching cycle, the Recipient has trained the teachers to enable them to teach the curriculum as a unified program by cycle (as opposed to a succession of annual programs within the cycle). Repetition rates go from 10.6% in 2008/09 to 10,12% in 2009/10, to 10% in 2010/11and 2011/12, and then to 8% en 2015 in Primary; * Repetition rate goes down from 25.7% in 2008/09 to 24.6% in 2009/10, to 19.2% in 2010/11, to 16.5% in 2011/12, and then to 9% en 2015 in lower
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