Education in Iraq...this is how illiteracy is created that includes 12 million citizens

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[size=52]Education in Iraq...this is how illiteracy is created that includes 12 million citizens[/size]

[size=45]For more than 20 years, Iraqis have been facing the crisis of losing the foundations of providing a good standard of education. Even though the middle of the current school year has passed, a large portion of students are still without textbooks, while the authorities have not addressed the problem of the lack of seats in classrooms, dilapidated buildings, and complaints about poor teaching of subjects. Scientific.
The educational supervisor in Nineveh Governorate (north), Abdel Nasser Mahmoud, told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed: “The educational reality is disastrous, and resembles poor electricity and water services, and miserable conditions of the roads, and problems appear without officials finding solutions.” The number of schools is not enough to accommodate students, so schools operate in two or even three shifts, and students accumulate within their classes, reaching 80 in some of them, which affects their ability to accommodate, in addition to the caravan schools that spread in the countryside and neighborhoods of some cities.”
The Parliamentary Education Committee confirms that it seeks to allocate 4.8 percent of the budget to the education sector, in order to extricate it from the miserable reality and combat the high dropout rate, while specialists expect that the number of students will rise to about 13 million during the next academic year due to the population increase, and this is accompanied by With a significant shortage of schools and educational personnel, in addition to other problems, the educational environment has become repulsive for students in a country that occupies the forefront of the ranking of oil-exporting countries in the world.
Ministry of Education spokesman Karim Al-Sayyed told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed: “The Ministry began its preparations early to prepare educational supplies and implement student registration procedures, but the biggest challenge is the lack of school buildings in light of the need for more than 9,000 schools, knowing that the current year There is a difference in terms of initiating the implementation of school building projects under the supervision of the ministry or the Chinese company with which the authorities have concluded a contract. We have more than 26 thousand school administrations for various educational institutions in the country, and about one million students enter the first grade of primary school annually.”
The teacher, Dima Fayez, told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed: “The most prominent difficulties facing educational institutions and students are dilapidated schools, overcrowded classrooms, a shortage of teachers, and double shifts. In fact, the school is no longer a healthy environment that attracts children, and the Ministry of Education bears responsibility for these conditions. At the beginning of every school year, parents and students suffer from the high cost of school clothes, books, and notebooks. Note that some parents donated to build schools for their children, or establish health facilities in them, and I believe that The backwardness of public education is the result of policies that encourage the dominance of private education.”[/size]
[size=45]Families pay between 700 and 1,500 dollars per student, depending on the level of study in the private school, and this amount can be saved by more than 30 percent of middle-income Iraqi families, as it is paid in installments, not all at once.
The teacher in Nineveh Governorate, Amal Mahmoud Nazr, criticizes the Ministry of Education’s repeated changes in the school curricula and the cancellation of basic curricula such as home economics in girls’ schools, economics in the fifth grade, drawing and art lessons, and the lack of interest in sports despite its importance to students.
She told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed, “There are other reasons for the deterioration of education, most notably the presence of three exam sessions, the implementation of double shifts, conflicting administrative decisions, the shortage of teachers, the obsolescence of school buildings, and the lack of maintenance, in addition to the problem of a severe shortage of textbooks that recurs every day.” In general, school administrations are forced to give children old books in storage.”
The former Minister of Education, Ali Hamid Al-Dulaimi, confirmed that Iraq needs 9,000 schools to get rid of the phenomenon of double shifts, and the Ministry of Education needs 6 or 7 years to address this shortage, but previous governments’ spending on armament contracts affected the educational sector.[/size]
[size=45]A previous report published by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) revealed that there are 2.3 million Iraqi school-age children out of school, and stressed that “decades of conflict and lack of investments have destroyed the educational system in Iraq, which was previously considered among the best in the region, which severely hindered access to education.” Children to a good education.”
While Iraq suffers from the presence of 12 million illiterate people, the country failed to reach the lowest ranks in the global rankings for the quality of education in 2021, and remained outside the international classification, according to the index of education levels in the world published by the World Economic Forum in Davos, which considered Iraq and Syria Yemen is among the countries not classified due to the lack of quality standards in education.[/size]
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