Given the situation here, no child who needs additional help is going to get it. Classroom size should ideally be no more than 30, that there is double that amount in these schools.
Students attend the first day of the new school term in Baghdad, Oct. 18, 2015. (photo by REUTERS/Ahmed Saad)
Decline in education threatens future Iraqi generations
BABIL, Iraq — Under the rule of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (2006-14), $150 million was allocated to the construction and development ofpublic schools in several Iraqi areas. Yet only 6% of the project was implemented.
Summary⎙ Print The lack of schools and large number of students in the same classroom have negatively affected the learning process and the future of Iraq’s new generation.
Author Wassim BassemPosted April 17, 2016
TranslatorSahar Ghoussoub
As a result, there is a significant shortfall in the number of school buildings, while classrooms are extremely packed and overcrowded. The Ministry of Education announced on Sept. 16, 2015, that Iraq is in need of about 9,000 new schools, given the overcrowded classrooms that negatively affect the educational process.
In the same vein, on Nov. 4, 2015, an Iraqi citizen staged a two-day sit-in in Karam al-Bari primary school in northern Dhi Qar province, south of Baghdad, protesting the large number of students, which exceeds 60, in the same classroom.
Majed Fadel, a professor from Babil, told Al-Monitor, “Given the large number of students in the same classroom, the teaching process and conveying the message to all students have become a difficult task to achieve, as not all of them would be focused on what the teachers are saying.”
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Students attend the first day of the new school term in Baghdad, Oct. 18, 2015. (photo by REUTERS/Ahmed Saad)
Decline in education threatens future Iraqi generations
BABIL, Iraq — Under the rule of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (2006-14), $150 million was allocated to the construction and development ofpublic schools in several Iraqi areas. Yet only 6% of the project was implemented.
Summary⎙ Print The lack of schools and large number of students in the same classroom have negatively affected the learning process and the future of Iraq’s new generation.
Author Wassim BassemPosted April 17, 2016
TranslatorSahar Ghoussoub
As a result, there is a significant shortfall in the number of school buildings, while classrooms are extremely packed and overcrowded. The Ministry of Education announced on Sept. 16, 2015, that Iraq is in need of about 9,000 new schools, given the overcrowded classrooms that negatively affect the educational process.
In the same vein, on Nov. 4, 2015, an Iraqi citizen staged a two-day sit-in in Karam al-Bari primary school in northern Dhi Qar province, south of Baghdad, protesting the large number of students, which exceeds 60, in the same classroom.
Majed Fadel, a professor from Babil, told Al-Monitor, “Given the large number of students in the same classroom, the teaching process and conveying the message to all students have become a difficult task to achieve, as not all of them would be focused on what the teachers are saying.”
Read more:
Decline in education threatens future Iraqi generations - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
