
BEQUAL Education Innovation Fund (BEIF) Learning Workshop
How can we encourage and pilot new and innovative activities to improve participation and access to primary education? How can we strengthen provincial, district, school and community capacity to manage, coordinate and implement those new education activities?

A new Spoken Lao Program for non-Lao speaking Grade 1 students being piloted in 4 provinces
In September 2019, the Ministry of Education and Sports in Lao PDR, with the support of the Australian Government and the European Union through BEQUAL, started to pilot a Spoken Lao program for Grade 1 students who start school with no or very little understanding of Lao language.

Pre-service Curriculum Revision and Development Workshop, Diploma degree from 11th to 15th November 2019 at ICT Building, MOES
Since 2015, the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES), with the support of the Australian Government and the European Union through the BEQUAL program, has been revising the primary curriculum and the primary teacher training curriculum.

New Grade 2 textbooks and teacher guides to be approved for school year 2020-21
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

Preparing the training teams for the new Grade 2 curriculum
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

Australia supports more Lao children in remote areas get to better access to education
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