
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

Districts getting ready to intensify through-semester support to help Grade 1 teachers applying the new curriculum
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

Celebrating Literacy Day – Focus on the new Spoken Lao Pilot Program to support the development of literacy for non-Lao speaking students
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

National campaign to announce the delivery of the new textbooks
As Grade 1 students are about to start school next week with a new curriculum, the Districts Education and Sports Bureaus (DESB) have been very busy liaising with every primary school in the country to distribute the new textbooks and teacher resource packs