Sixty million dollars will be invested in the Moldovan educational system as part of the “Improving the Quality of Education” Project.
Of the total amount, $20 million is a grant offered by the Government of the Netherlands, the Global Partnership for Education and the Partnership for Early Education, and $40 million is a preferential loan offered by the World Bank. The funding agreement was already ratified by Parliament on June 30.
The investment needs in general education are great, from equipment to teacher training, said Minister of Education Dan Perciun during at the project’s launch event.
The minister stated that 15 schools and 15 kindergartens will be rehabilitated. 200 schools will benefit from ICT investments and three new classical lyceums will be built in the north, south and center of the country. Also, the project will support the continuous training of teachers, while the support package for early education will also include the provision of teaching and play materials for kindergartens across the country.
Inguna Dobraja, World Bank’s Country Manager for Moldova, noted that our country has made significant efforts to improve the educational system, but there are still a lot of things that need to be put back on tracks after the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the war has brought many refugees into the country and they need to be included in the system.
Fred Duijn, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Moldova, said that this project means even more investments in education, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands stands with the Republic of Moldova in these efforts.
The project is expected to run until 2029.
