One Question Dr. Hassan Mneimneh

Dear Mr. Traboulsi,

Thank you for answering promptly yesterday.

I have thought a great deal, since yesterday, about the way I should put forward my questions because there are so many of them.

Education covers such a vast field of activities. Unless one follows a systematic approach one can get easily lost with so many problems to solve.

Fortunately Minister Mneimne has realized this fact and has developed his National Education Plan to cover all the main subjects in an orderly way. He has identified ten basic subjects and sixty-two specific objectives to realize during the next five years. Allow me to list them below because I believe that they represent the entire work program of the Ministry.

1. Early childhood education – Five objectives
2. Improving retention and achievement – Six objectives
3. Developing infrastructure – Five objectives
4. Professionalizing the teaching workforce – Seven objectives
5. Modernizing school management – Six objectives
6. Assessing Education and developing curriculum – Seven objectives
7. Citizenship education – Four objectives
8. ICT – Information communication Technology – Four objectives
9. National qualification network – Three objectives
10. Institutional development –Eleven objectives

Now this is the Program. What about the Execution?

As you will agree with me, Execution has always been the problem in Lebanon’s public Administration.

Out of the sixty two objectives, Minister Mneimne has identified twenty six initiatives that were planned to be started in 2010.

I intend asking Minister Mneimne every day one question about each of these initiatives, starting on the first of January. This means that by the end of January 2011 all the questions will have been asked regarding the year 2010 that has nearly ended.

What we shall need to know is:

1) Has this initiative been effectively started in 2010?
2) If not, why not?
3) What percentage of the programmed work regarding this initiative has been accomplished?
4) What were the results obtained?
5) What were the obstacles encountered and how do you plan to solve them in the future?
6) In retrospect, was the initiative justified or should it be changed or modified?
7) How can the citizens help the Ministry achieve their target regarding this particular initiative?

My questions will also be published on my blog “One Question, Mr. Minister” that everyone can access at http://www.questionsfromcpi.blogspot.com/2010/12/one-question-dr-hassan-mneimneh.html