A question your Excellency! - Ministry of Education

مشروع الإنماء التربوي

ماهية المشروع

مشروع الإنماء التربوي هو التسمية الجديدة لمشروع التعليم العام الذي أعيد هيكلة مكوناته، تحديد أهدافه وجدولة موازنته البالغة 70.9 مليون دولار أميركي ( 56.6 مليون دولار أميركي حصّة تمويل البنك الدولي – 14.3 مليون دولار أميركي حصّة تمويل الدولة اللبنانيّة)، وأصبح أيضاً يشمل بعض المكونات التي لم يتم تنفيذها من خلال قرض البنك الدولي العائد للتعليم المهني والتقني والذي أقفل رسميّاً في 31/12/2003.

يهدف مشروع الإنماء التربوي إلى: ”تسهيل بدء عملية الإصلاح في أنظمة التعليم العام والمهني عن طريق بناء قاعدة المعرفة وتعزيز النمو والجهوزيّة المؤسساتية في وزارة التربية والتعليم العالي“ تتلائم هذه الأهداف مع الأهداف الاستراتيجية للبنك الدولي الخاصة بلبنان (CAS): ”تنمية قاعدة الموارد البشرية بالتركيز على التعليم العام والمهني“. هذا ما يتماشى أيضا مع ”أولوية الحكومة اللبنانيّة لتوفير النوعية التربوية في المدارس الرسمية في سبيل الإنصاف وتحقيق الجودة“.

ويتألف المشروع من المكونات الاساسية التالية:

1. سياسة، تخطيط وإدارة المعلومات
• الإستراتيجية الوطنية للتعليم
• نظام معلوماتية الإدارة التربوية
• تسويغ النظام المالي التربوي
• التنمية المؤسساتيّة

2. تقوية الدور الريادي لمديري المدارس، القدرة التربوية، وتقييم التحصيل الأكاديمي
• التنمية الرياديّة
• تنمية كفايات المعلِم والمدرِِب
• تقييم التحصيل الأكاديمي

3. البنى التحتية والتجهيزات
• بناء المدارس
• توريد التجهيزات
• البنية التحتية لتكنولوجيا المعلومات والإتصالات

4. وحدة إدارة المشروع


4/23/2010

One Question, your Excellency!

Dear readers and partners in our faith in Lebanon,

The Lebanese Center for public information, faithful to its commitment to work incessantly to narrow the gap between the citizens and their "Dawle", has decided to start today a new mode of dialogue between the taxpayers and the Authorities.

This dialogue will take the form of some candid and direct questions that we shall address, at least once a day, to one of our thirty ministers and to the parliamentary commissions concerned on the subjects that most interest and sometimes puzzle the citizens.

We earnestly ask our ministers to answer these questions or have them answered directly on that blog or to the following email address: George@cpi-lebanon.org

We hope that this new initiative will serve in some small way to break down the barriers of incomprehension and suspicion that currently separate the taxpaying citizens from the tax collecting Authorities.

QUESTION NO.3 ADDRESSED TO HIS EXCELLENCY D. HASSAN MNEIMNEH, MINISTER OF EDUCATION

We address today our third question to His Excellency, D. Hassan Mneimneh, Minister of Education

Your Excellency, allow us to start by congratulating you for the Ministry’s web site which we have visited today and for the excellent updated information about the different activities of the Ministry that is published on that site. We have particularly appreciated the full account of your meeting with the 258 directors of secondary public schools in the presence of HE Bahia Hariry.

It is certainly gratifying for the citizens to see that their Ministers fulfill their duties enthusiastically and actively devote their time to the service of the taxpayers.

It also emboldens us to formulate the same question that we addressed yesterday to the Minister of Agriculture.

“YOUR EXCELLENCY, IN SPITE OF YOUR BUSY TIME SCHEDULE (you attended no less than ten events in ten days according to the web site), WILL YOU CONSIDER DEVOTING A FEW HOURS A DAY TO OVERSEE THE PREPARATION OF A NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PLAN IN LEBANON FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS?”

This question arises out of our concern that the efforts that you are currently deploying should not be wasted, God forbids, if the next Minister decided to ignore them and adopted a new approach. We must not delude ourselves that this has never been the case in the past.

The concept of the NATIONAL PLAN is that, once it is adopted by the Council of Ministers and approved by Parliament, it will remain valid for the next five years and it can only be radically altered by the same institutions that voted for it.

Another important consideration to keep in mind is that this Plan will provide the guidelines, and the yardsticks against which the Ministry’s performance and budget will be evaluated (your ministry as well as the succeeding ones).

A further usefulness of the Plan is that, provided Civil Society is invited to participate in its formulation, the implementation of the Plan will not be met by the same popular agitation and troubles that we unfortunately witness today. If the syndicates of public and private teachers are invited to take an active part in the elaboration of the Plan they will be less likely to protest later when this Plan is put into execution.

I do not know if, like in the case of the Ministry of Agriculture, a National Educational Plan has already been prepared by your predecessors.Is the Educational Development Project that we have reproduced from the Ministry's site a Plan or just a Strategy? If it is a detailed Plan  please inform us if you intend to update it and publish it after its adoption by the Council of Ministers and Parliament.

Respectfully yours,

George Sabat