Other targets include inaugurating an education savings scheme with the government to match deposits by parents, providing plots of land to private education institutes, giving grants for financially-disadvantaged students, securing opportunities for 2,000 students to study medicine, covering course fees for students with special needs and issuing MVR 118 million (US$ 7 million) worth of student loans from a development bank during the next five years. According to the policy, the monthly repayment for the student loans would not exceed eight percent of a borrower’s monthly income. Moreover, the policy proposes upgrading the polytechnic institute to ISO 900 standard and establishing new faculties at the National University. In addition to the proposed higher education opportunities, the policy also includes special projects to train 300 science teachers, 300 Quran teachers, 500 nurses and 200 pharmacists as well as an MVR 80 million programme for the improvement of lecturers. The ‘Hunaru‘ skills training programme meanwhile targets the creation of 17,350 jobs. minivannews/politics/mdp-launches-higher-education-policy-pledges-raising-enrolment-rate-to-40-percent-59460
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:16:01 +0000
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