“Arab Education Falling Behind”
In a study recently released, the World Bank reports that education in the Arab World is falling behind. You can read the entire article HERE at BBC Middle East News:
The World Bank has said the quality of education in the Arab World is falling behind other regions and needs urgent reform if it is to tackle unemployment.
In a report, Bank officials said Arab states had to make improving education their top priority, because it went hand-in-hand with economic development.
The region had not seen the increasing literacy and school enrolment witnessed in Asia and Latin America, they said.
Djibouti, Yemen, Iraq and Morocco were ranked the worst educational reformers.
The bright spot? Here is one of the concluding paragraphs:
The report concluded that Jordan and Kuwait were the top educational reformers in the region, while Djibouti, Yemen, Iraq and Morocco ranked lowest in terms of access, efficiency and quality of education.
(An editorial Wooooo Hooooooo to Kuwait!)
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I was dropping a friend off in Shamiya and I saw a boys school there, I think it was either an elementary or middle school, I was shocked. It was such an amazing building. I didn’t see it from inside though.
I think if they let Nooriya Al-Subeeh do her job then she might reform the education in Kuwait. She has been int he MoEducation since her graduation from college.
[…] [d]aniel wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIn a study recently released, the World Bank reports that education in the Arab World is falling behind. You can read the entire article HERE at BBC Middle East News: The World Bank has said the quality of education in the Arab World is falling behind other regions and needs urgent reform if it is to tackle unemployment. In a report, Bank officials said Arab states had to make improving education their top priority, because it went hand-in-hand with economic development. The region had not seen the increasing literacy and school enrolment witnessed in Asia and Latin America, they said. Djibouti, Yemen, Iraq and Morocco were ranked the worst educational reformers. The bright spot? Here is one of the concluding paragraphs: The report concluded that Jordan and Kuwait were the top educational reformers in the region, while Djibouti, Yemen, Iraq and Morocco ranked lowest in terms of access, efficiency and quality of education. (An editorial Wooooo Hooooooo […] […]
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… so we are doing something right over here! 🙂
if anyone can do it, its nouriya, she needs all the support right now to push her reforms through – shes one tough cookie, very admirable – im dissapointed about the segregation stuff, but thats politics – something has go to give
Chirp, what’s with all the old abandoned schools in Kuwait? Some of them are on really good land . . . are they going to build new schools there or can that land be used for something else?
bbq8 – Kuwait and Jordan, top two in the Arab world. 🙂
Amer, I agree, what a pistol! I admire her greatly. She has the street cred, and what I really love is that the educators identify with her – they feel she really knows and supports them. Yeh, the segregation stuff . . . definitely a step backwards . . .