According to the World Health Organisation, childhood diarrhoea is closely associated with insufficient water supply, inadequate sanitation, water contaminated with communicable disease agents, poor hygiene practices and malnutrition.

Since 2015, the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) has been developing a new primary curriculum along with new teaching and learning materials for students and teachers. The implementation of the new curriculum started this September with Grade 1 and implementation will be progressive with one new grade per year

On 15-16 October 2019 the Department of Teacher Education (DTE) led a review and refresh of the Master Trainer and Provincial Trainer teams that recently provided training on Grade 1 materials of the new primary curriculum across the country

This year Teachers’ Day celebrates teachers with the theme, “Young Teachers: The future of the Profession.” Ms. Meetou Leaxer, Ms. Lamngeun Yegkhamchanthavong and Mr. Mon Khounmatay are amongst this future generation of promising young teachers

A handover ceremony held at the Ministry of Education and Sports today was attended by representatives from relevant MoES departments, Provincial Education and Sports Service from the nine provinces that benefitted from the support, as well as other implementing partners and NGOs. The meeting marks the handover of school facilities supported by Australia and the European Union to the Ministry of Education and Sports

Teachers of Grade 1 in primary schools across Laos will be trained to teach the new national primary school curriculum, with will start with their grade in September

All Grade 1 students and teachers started the school-year this September with new textbooks and a new pedagogical approach. The new teaching method based on active learning represents a major change in the classrooms

How do you take care of your textbooks? How do you keep them clean? How do you protect them? How do you keep them in a good condition to enable future students use them?

How can you study successfully when you have little or no understanding of the language of instruction? This is a reality faced by many children in Laos when they start school. Lao is the official language of instruction. All textbooks, educational materials and teaching are in Lao language. Yet 38% of the children entering primary school do not have Lao or a dialect of Lao as their mother tongue