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Education Minister Erica Stanford has announced the Board of the New Zealand School Property Agency (NZSPA), marking the next step in the Government’s plan to overhaul school property and deliver better outcomes for schools, students, and taxpayers. “The Government inherited a school property system bordering on crisis,” Ms Stanford says. “We are fixing that. In the past two and a half years, we have significantly reduced the cost of a classroom by using repeatable designs and, as a result, ne…

Santo Domingo.- The National Institute for Student Welfare (INABIE) reached 38% in the distribution of school supplies to educational districts for the 2026-2027 school year. To date, the institution has delivered 678,925 school kits. With the deliveries made so far, INABIE completed the shipment of school supplies in all of the educational districts of the National District and the provinces of Santo Domingo, Santiago, Bahoruco and Barahona. School supplies have been shipped to 33 educational…

Nearly 200 schools have begun the process of replacing open-plan classrooms with enclosed learning spaces to create quieter, calmer spaces more suited for learning, Education Minister Erica Stanford announced today. “When I began visiting schools, teachers consistently told me how difficult it was to teach in open-plan classrooms, and parents also raised strong concerns. “At the end of 2025, the Ministry of Education launched the Modifying Open Plan Classrooms Initiative and invited schools to…

The National Education Council (CNE) organized, on July 20 and 21, 2026 in Cotonou, a national seminar dedicated to preparing for the start of the 2026-2027 school and university year. Placed under the theme “Quality of Teaching - Learning - Evaluation: What levers to improve the performance of education and training establishments for the 2026-2027 school and university year? ", this meeting brought together the main players in the education sector in order to identify priorities and define the…

Santo Domingo.–More than 37,000 students in the public education system received oral health care through the services offered by the National Institute for Student Welfare (INABIE) during the 2025-2026 school year, as part of the actions aimed at promoting prevention, timely detection of conditions and the comprehensive well-being of the student population. Within the framework of these actions, INABIE specialists performed 59,977 dental interventions, including prophylaxis, application of flu…

Santo Domingo.-The National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant) delivered 58 learning cards to the first high school graduates of the Guardianes del Tránsito program, who received this document along with their graduation certificate, as a result of the agreement signed with the Ministry of Education. The initiative, which has already trained 620 students from six educational centers, strengthens road safety education in the classroom and promotes a culture of safer mobility …

Santo Domingo.-The Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic (Minerd) reported that preparations for the start of the 2026-2027 school year are advancing with emphasis on the adaptation of educational infrastructure, the guarantee of places for students and the strengthening of the necessary conditions to receive more than two million students from the pre-university educational system. The progress was presented during a meeting of the Special Commission for the Opening of the 2026-2027 …