Lebanon's Education Ministery has said that it will establish 40 new state-run schools and upgrade the existing ones, according to the Daily Star.
"The Cabinet and Parliament recently ratified a government plan to construct public schools in all regions," education minister Abdel-Rahim Mrad was quoted as saying during a ceremony to lay the cornerstone for a new public school in Sidon's Wastani area on Sunday.
The Educational system in Lebanon "seems hardly to be meeting the Education for All Goals,’ according to a report by the UNESCO in 1997. The research attributed the flaws in the system to the 16-year civil war and the Israeli occupation of parts of south Lebanon.
Compulsory education as stipulated in Lebanese laws has not been enforced yet, said the paper. There are more than a million children who go to different types of schools in the country -- Albawaba.com
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