Al-Kaabi: Education in Iraq faces great challenge, attempts are carried out to foil it

The First Deputy Speaker Hasan Karim al-Kaabi chaired on Thursday December 6, 2018, the periodic meeting of the Parliamentary Education Committee, in the presence of the MPs of the committee and the Chairman and members of the municipal council of Sadr City.
During the meeting, al-Kaabi warned of the existence of parties that attempt to undermine free education in Iraq and replace it with private one, taking advantage of the weakness of the Ministry of Education and its failure to provide the main requirements of a school building including sufficient cadres, furniture and other services and being unable to find a solution to what is known as two and even three shifts education system which forced students’ parents to transfer their children to private education.
He stressed the need to redress the people of Sadr City, who made great sacrifices, especially that the population exceeded 3.5 million people, and the Ministry of Education should build new schools to keep pace with their increasing numbers.
Al-Kaabi listened to the most important problems suffered by the education sector in Sadr City, where the Chairman of the Municipal Council Kamel Khanjar noted that the total number of schools in 2011 was 375 buildings, with 470 primary and secondary schools. 100 schools suffer from the shifts system, and some schools run for two hours every day.
The meeting ended with agreement on several recommendations, including the need to host the director of educational curriculum in the Ministry of Education and education officials to raise the problem of errors in curriculum printing and the difficulty of the primary education curriculum, find solution to the problem of changing schools names, and finally follow-up the construction of school buildings that have been referred to integrity”.
The First Deputy Speaker Media Office
6/12/2018