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11/10/2010 - Issue 44
91 billion SP plan for new curricula
by Mayar Mnini
The Ministry of Education is about to initiate a 5 year and 91 billion SP plan to change all curricula and teaching methodologies in Syrian education bodies.
The new curricula plan is considered a revolution to the old memorizing-based teaching methods, as it will have the students thinking and analyzing rather than relying on their memorization abilities, which will have sort out talents and abilities into their respective fields.
Within its scope to modernize the curricula, the ministry had also added new subjects such as astronomy (which was a part of the geography subject), remote sensing, and child and women's rights.
The ministry also ordered the facilitation of laptops and internet to teachers and students alike.
While for the Higher Education sector, a new plan is being formalized, which will improve the infrastructure of all universities in addition to their curricula. The Minister of High Education, Ghais Barakat, assured that this is the most important phase of the plan as it prepares the universities to start producing an efficient workforce to help build Syria.
Plato gave the educational process huge importance, especially in his book "The Republic," where he believed that building a patriotic and well-educated generation is one of the main factors of establishing a strong independent state.
Syria is now witnessing a lot of positive changes and these changes are going to hopefully solve the problems that we are facing in the process of developing Syria, and education is the first step to achieve that, as it is the only direct way to educate societies.
