In the presence of the Minister of Planning, the Department of Human Development holds a workshop on a working paper (Education Sector Reality and Reform)

by **claud39** on Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:27 am

In the presence of the Minister of Planning, the Department of Human Development holds a workshop on a working paper (Education Sector Reality and Reform)

2020-12-01

The Department of Human Development in the Ministry of Planning held a workshop on a working paper entitled (Education Sector Reality and Reform) in the presence of the Minister of Planning, Dr. Khaled Battal Al-Najm, the Undersecretary of the Ministry for Technical Affairs, Dr. Maher Hammad Johan, and the Education Adviser in the Council of Consultants, Dr. Tariq Al-Ani and the Head of the Supervision Authority at the Ministry of Education

The higher doctor, Alaa Abdel-Hassan, and the Director-General of the Economic and Financial Policy Department, Dr. Alaa El-Din Jaafar, and the senior leaders in the Ministries of Education and Higher Education

The Undersecretary for Technical Affairs said: This paper was presented by the Department of Human Development under the direction of the Minister to give a reform vision for the education sector, as he directed his Excellency to involve the concerned authorities in these two sectors and delve into their details. "This workshop came to review this paper in order to take its more remote form and focus better on reform."

He explained that it is a reform paper and not a methodology that includes general reform axes, indicating that the Ministry of Planning will work to receive notes on this paper to mature it and find the appropriate mechanism to deal with it with the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers or with other bodies.

In addition, the Director of the Department of General Human Development, Dr. Maha Abdel-Karim Al-Rawi, said: It is of the great importance of the education sectors in drawing up the human development policy and determining the needs of education. Department entitled (Education Sector Reality and Reform).

Abdul Karim added, "This paper presented a reform vision for the two sectors, which should be consistent with the development plan (2018-2022) and the vision of Iraq 2030, as a set of reform proposals were presented in the short and long term."

The narrator indicated that the paper included several related axes. With educational curricula, procedures for students, enrollment rates, coordination frameworks with ministries, sobriety of outputs, and even leadership selection, adoption of administrative governance foundations to improve companies among educational institutions, use of modern education and education policies, activate the role of vocational and technical education, and other proposals,

Stressing that it was agreed to review the paper by representatives of the two ministries in order to mature it with their proposals to present it as a reference paper for the national plan for the education strategy, which is being prepared now in accordance with a diwani order issued by the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers. For her part, the Director of the Education Policies Department and the presenter of this paper, Mrs. Nahida Ahmed Abdul-Jabbar, said:

The foundations of the vision include improving the efficiency of the educational system that generates decent work and accelerating economic growth by ensuring a balance between the educational process outputs and the requirements of the labor market in terms of quantity and quality, with a focus on education and training Professional and technical, raising the ranking of universities in international rankings, as well as enhancing opportunities for lifelong learning.

She indicated that the joint reform proposals in the medium and long term for the education and higher education sectors include: Increasing the proportion of the financial allocation for the education and higher education sector out of the state’s total operational and investment budget to enable the two sectors to implement its commitments and programs, which it sets to improve its educational services, support scientific research, and reconsider laws and legislation that It allows the private sector to participate in a way that contributes to encouraging investment in these two sectors on the one hand and ensuring high-quality outputs on the other hand, as well as reviewing the retirement law to ensure the survival of experienced and qualified teaching staff in a way that serves the goals of educational institutions.

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