Tammuz Organization holds Debate Seminar about the Nature of Education in Anbar

Tammuz Organization for Social Development held a debate seminar about the nature of education in Iraq under slogan (Any day passes without education is an irreparable loss) on 24/01/2011 in Anbar province. The MP in House of Representatives Liqa’a Mahdi Wardi attended the seminar and representatives of Anbar Educational Directorate, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and the local council and a number of specialists, educators, journalists, students and representatives of some civil society organizations.
In seminar, it was discussed (the nature of education in Iraq, the reasons of deterioration in the nature of educational, the effects of the educational level retreat, solutions and treatments). Educational supervisor Fawzia Himod delivered speech on the nature of education in Iraq, and MP Liqa’a Mahdi also delivered speech about the same matter. Attendees touched the reason of deterioration is the lack of clear strategy to draw the future of education in Iraq after the bad situations that happen in and after nineties, in addition to what happened after the fall of the regime and financial and administrative corruption that happened to the Ministry of Education and the forged process and the school subjects that taught in the school are not develop and the salaries of teachers do not meet the requirement of life. Attendees added that there are approximately more than 83 typographical errors in the new curriculum, and there are some teachers are incompetent to deliver information to students, in addition to the deterioration of the security side. The MP Liqa’a Mahdi praised the role of civil society and especially our organization and then praised representative of the local council on the role of the Tammuz organization in the province.
At the end of seminar, the participants presented some recommendation and suggestion and they are:
1-Provide suitable schools for students
2-Provide the curriculum and stationary
3-Provide development courses of new curriculum for teachers
4-Emphasizing on the role of teacher in primary stage
5-Put the special study in school design to fit with the preparation of the students and not allowed to increase the number of pupils per class for 30 students.
6-Formation of special committees to prepare the studying curriculum and demand the government to print inside Iraq
7-Provide development education means
8-Demanding the Ministry of Education to not change the curriculum during the school year because it confuses the student, and activating the role of censorship by concerned superintendents to follow up the work of studying staffs
9-Provide services such as electricity, water and others
10-Distributing of studying staffs according to the need of school

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