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Santo Domingo.- The Minister of Education of the Dominican Republic, Luis Miguel De Camps, stated this Wednesday that the main challenge facing the countries of Central America and the Caribbean is to develop the human talent necessary to respond to the profound technological, economic and social transformations that redefine today's world. When heading the LI Ordinary Meeting of the Council of Intersectoral Ministers of Education and Culture of the Central American Educational and Cultural Coo…

Education Minister Erica Stanford announced $10 million to deliver new classrooms across the lower North Island, taking the total spend on new classrooms to over $1.2 billion over the past 3 years. Today’s announcement will deliver 14 new teaching spaces to schools in the lower North Island that are at, or over, capacity. “This investment will ensure students have the space they need to learn, and that schools can respond to growing rolls,” Ms Stanford says. The $10 million growth package for…

From:Department of Education and Youth Minister for Education and Youth Hildegarde Naughton today (Thursday) will visit schools across County Mayo, including St. Gerald’s DLS College in Castlebar, where she will officially turn the sod on a significant extension project that will enhance facilities for future generations of students. The extension to St. Gerald’s, which is due to be completed next year, will see the school reap the benefits of having four additional mainstream classrooms in ad…

Santo Domingo.-The National Institute of Physical Education (Inefi) and the Dominican Observatory of Physical Education (Odefar) launched the “Schools in Motion” program at the Santa Martha Basic School, located in district 02, of the National District, in the Las Flores sector, in Cristo Rey. The executive director of Inefi, Alberto Rodríguez Mella, highlighted that the “Schools in Motion” initiative seeks to promote more dynamic lifestyles among children and adolescents, encouraging habits th…

More than 1300 schools and 220,000 students have used the Student Mentoring Assessment Tool (SMART) since it was introduced in February, Education Minister Erica Stanford said today. The Government introduced twice yearly assessment in reading writing and maths. “We campaigned on this in 2023, we funded it and we delivered it. “We introduced the SMART assessment because parents, academics, ERO and education experts told me we need to do better, when it comes having consistent, accessible repo…

Santo Domingo.-The National Institute of Physical Education (Inefi) has begun the renovation of the basketball courts of the Comprehensive Care Center for Adolescents in Conflict with the Criminal Law “Ciudad del Niño”, located on the Hato Nuevo highway, as the first step in a series of supports aimed at young people deprived of liberty who receive care in that facility. This intervention represents the beginning of a support program aimed at strengthening sports and training spaces within the …

The Government of Benin is taking a new step in its ambition to make sport a pillar of education and child development. Through the Educational and Sports Synergies project, the Ministry of Sports and Civic Engagement, in collaboration with the Ministry of Nursery and Primary Education, organized a large collective event on Friday June 12, 2026 in Akassato bringing together students from pilot schools. This initiative is part of the pilot phase of the project, currently deployed in ten primary s…

Santiago.–President Luis Abinadera announced this Friday that he instructed the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Mescyt) to begin the evaluation of scholarship applications from the fifth year of high school, with the purpose that students can access higher education without losing an academic year after completing high school. The measure was announced during a luncheon meeting with students from different polytechnics and educational centers in Santiago, where the preside…

Santiago.-President Luis Abinader reaffirmed this Saturday his government's commitment to strengthening the Dominican educational system, highlighting the investments made in school infrastructure, technology, student transportation, equipment for educational centers and expansion of opportunities for higher education, during a meeting with meritorious students from Regional Education 08, held at the Ana Josefa Jiménez Educational Center, in southern Santiago. During a lunch-conversation with r…

Santiago.– Giving continuity to his commitment to quality public education, President Luis Abinaderinaugurated this Saturday the José Valentín Pérez Castro Basic School, in La Noriega, Santiago, and simultaneously opened another 27 classrooms for the initial level in different parts of the province, expanding the opportunities for access to adequate educational spaces for hundreds of students. The new educational infrastructure incorporates nine standard classrooms and one classroom for the ini…

National Statement of Commitment for At the Transforming Education Summit on the Side-lines of the UNGA77 in New York The Gambia upholds education and skills acquisition as a right for every citizen, and this drives the search for appropriate approaches to transform education for the attainment of our goals and commitments. Key among these is achieving high levels of learning and skills outcomes, with more than 80 per cent of children achieving the minimum learning competencies and standards out…

11 thousand adults will receive their degree during the second BEE graduation, which will take place next Friday, December 13 at the National Stadium. With more than double the number of graduates than the first edition, this will be the largest graduation in the history of Costa Rica. The Program, which was born in this administration through the Education Route, is recovering thousands of students who between 1988 and until 2019 left the classrooms for various reasons and were not able to com…

Cotuí, Sánchez Ramírez.- As part of his commitment to strengthening the education and well-being of Dominican youth, President Luis Abinader inaugurated this Thursday the roof of the Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal School, a work that will open new opportunities for more than 900 students by providing a safe and adequate space for sports, recreation, culture and healthy coexistence. The new infrastructure will allow sports, cultural, recreational and community activities to be carried out throug…

Santo Domingo.– The Dominican Government formally launched this Thursday the National Consultation for the Future of Dominican Education, a broad, participatory and representative process, aimed at listening to the different sectors of society, on the education that the country needs to respond to the challenges of the present and the future. The initiative responds to the presidential mandate established by Decree No. 309-26, which provides for the organization of a national consultation proce…

Sánchez Ramírez.–President Luis Abinader inaugurated this Thursday a sports-school roof at the Narciso Alberti School, in the municipality of Cevicos, a work that will benefit more than 600 students by providing an adequate space for sports, recreational, cultural and educational activities. Later, the president will deliver another roof at the Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal School, in the municipality of Cotuí, which will positively impact more than 900 students. The works, carried out by the…

With the presence of the President of the Republic, Santiago Peña; the First Lady of the Nation, Leticia Ocampos; The Minister of Education and Sciences, Luis Ramírez, and national authorities, the official launch of the reading portfolios was held that will benefit 1,200,000 students from officially managed and subsidized private educational institutions, from the initial level to the ninth grade. The materials, printed in Spanish and Guaraní that are part of the program, were developed to str…

The beneficiary sites will be selected through a technical process led by MITIC and WECAFC, which will prioritize education and health, in vulnerable communities and isolated rural areas, where this tool can generate a greater impact on the quality of life of the population. In his speech, President Peñas argued that digital transformation must be a tool to build a more inclusive country, where opportunities reach all Paraguayans regardless of distance. He pointed out that for a long time entir…

Wednesday, August 21, 2024. The Ministry of Health, the National Directorate of Education and Nutrition Centers and Children's Centers for Comprehensive Care (CEN-CINAI) and the Ministry of Public Education signed an alliance for the implementation of the Strategy for Health Promoting Educational Centers (CEPS). This strategy is designed with the objective of promoting healthy habits, preventing diseases and creating environments that support the physical, mental and social well-being of both t…

• Second and third major graduation will be at the National Stadium • MEP manages to graduate and recover thousands of young people and adults The graduation of the second and third class of the Baccalaureate for Employability and Entrepreneurship program will take place soon at the facilities of the National Stadium. A few months ago, the grand graduation of the first class with 5 thousand graduates was held in this same facility and, very soon, we will see it again full of graduates with their…

Santo Domingo.- The person in charge of Initial Level Pedagogical Projects of the National Institute of Physical Education, Jacobo Mateo Guzmán, and the psychomotor expert, Dr. Gady BeckerDíaz, highlighted this Wednesday the importance of the Motor Classrooms project that has been successfully implemented by Inefi for two years in several educational centers in the country. Mateo Guzmán argued that the Motor Class is a vital and significant space for comprehensive development in early childhood…

From:Department of Education and Youth Minister of Education and Youth Hildegarde Naughton and Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion Micheal Moynihan have today announced the launch of a new Transitions Support Service in special schools nationwide. Backed by €1.35 million in Budget 2026, the new service will support young people with disabilities as they prepare to move from school into further education, training, employment and other post-school opportunities. The service w…

MEP invites the entire country to join the campaign MEI propose to donate, MEI propose to read Within the framework of the 2024 school year, whose motto is “Read and write: the first step to transform lives”, the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) promotes a series of actions that promote reading and writing in compliance with the Education Route. To develop reading habits, the MEP is delivering 25,894 books so that by 2025, one hundred percent of rural high schools will have these resources.…

First graduation will be on Friday, April 5 at the National Stadium. More than 5 thousand people who enrolled in the Baccalaureate for Employability and Entrepreneurship (BEE) program obtained their Bachelor's degree in Secondary Education. They were part of the first group of people who enrolled in the Program to complete their secondary studies in 2023. The requirement to enroll was to have passed the last year of secondary school, have pending approval of one or more Baccalaureate exams in …

Boca Chica.–The National Institute for Student Welfare (INABIE) expanded its network of school health services with the inauguration of a new dental module at the Emilio Prud’Homme Educational Center, in this municipality, an initiative that will bring specialized and preventive care to thousands of students in the area. The new unit, corresponding to the 65th dental module installed by the institution nationwide, will offer coverage to more than 2,919 students from five educational centers, st…

Education for children and young people includes preschool, leisure-time centres, compulsory school and upper secondary school. Based on their own circumstances and needs, pupils are to receive education so that they achieve the knowledge requirements and so have the opportunity to develop as much as possible. Pupils’ ability to read and understand what they read is the foundation of their learning in all school subjects. The Swedish Government’s school policy aims to get back to basics and re-…

• MICITT, MEP and UNA coordinate implementation of pilot plan • Project will benefit 35 single-teacher educational centers in 14 regions • Implementation will begin with an investment of In order to improve the conditions for learning English in single-teacher schools, the Ministry of Public Education (MEP), the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT) and the National University (UNA) are promoting an innovative methodological proposal for remote English te…