The rate of dropout has reduced remarkable to almost zero at primaryschools in mountainous areas in the central province of Quang Nam thanksto a project to enhance school quality funded by foreign donors.
According to Nguyen Tan Tu, head of the Primary Education Section ofQuang Nam province’s Education and Training Department, the SchoolEducation Quality Assurance Programme (SEQAP) has been implemented at 48primary schools in 8 poor mountainous districts since March 2010.
Under the project, the target schools received assistance to shiftfrom half-day to full-day attendance, including training and guidancematerials for teachers.
In particular, more than5,800 students at the schools, who are mostly from ethnic minoritygroups, have been provided with free lunch in order to keep them atschool. At the same time, more classrooms and other facilities have beenbuilt to serve the needs of students during full-day school attendance.
As a result, the rate of attendance has increasedat these schools while no students have quit school since the projectbegan. Study results have also improved among ethnic minority students.
The SEQAP project has been carried out in 36 citiesand provinces nationwide and will continue until December, 2015 with aninvestment capital of 186 million USD, of which 27.9 million USD camefrom the Vietnamese government and the rest financed by the WB, the UKDepartment for International Development and the Belgian DevelopmentAgency.
It is designed to improve the quality ofprimary education, raise ethnic minority children’s study results andcreate equal education opportunity for all children.-VNA
According to Nguyen Tan Tu, head of the Primary Education Section ofQuang Nam province’s Education and Training Department, the SchoolEducation Quality Assurance Programme (SEQAP) has been implemented at 48primary schools in 8 poor mountainous districts since March 2010.
Under the project, the target schools received assistance to shiftfrom half-day to full-day attendance, including training and guidancematerials for teachers.
In particular, more than5,800 students at the schools, who are mostly from ethnic minoritygroups, have been provided with free lunch in order to keep them atschool. At the same time, more classrooms and other facilities have beenbuilt to serve the needs of students during full-day school attendance.
As a result, the rate of attendance has increasedat these schools while no students have quit school since the projectbegan. Study results have also improved among ethnic minority students.
The SEQAP project has been carried out in 36 citiesand provinces nationwide and will continue until December, 2015 with aninvestment capital of 186 million USD, of which 27.9 million USD camefrom the Vietnamese government and the rest financed by the WB, the UKDepartment for International Development and the Belgian DevelopmentAgency.
It is designed to improve the quality ofprimary education, raise ethnic minority children’s study results andcreate equal education opportunity for all children.-VNA
