CONSTRUCTION AND PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES

1. Project title: Construction and Provision of Educational Facilities.

2. Project location: Binh Dinh Province

3. Project objectives:

a) Long-term objectives:

Increasing investment in the construction of provincial educational facilities as per the orientation until 2010 to ensure enough schools and classrooms in order to maintain the situation of compulsory primary and secondary education, targeting compulsory senior secondary education.

Upgrading centers for general technology and vocational training to attract students into training courses on applied technologies and ordinary skills; providing job-training for young people; and gradually building multi-storied schools and modernizing teaching aids as per the criteria of the national standard school.

b) Short-term objectives:

Timely dealing with difficulties and urgent needs for educational facilities to overcome the lack of classrooms and degradation or unsatisfication of classrooms; and upgrading the schools in the economically difficult areas.

4. Project scale:

Constructing:        

- New classrooms: 940

- School offices: 11        

Providing school equipment: tables and chairs for teachers and pupils.

Providing equipment for teaching and learning, vocational training.

5. Expected budget: USD10 million

6. Source: ODA loan

7. Implementation period: 2005 - 2010

8. Executing agency: Binh Dinh Education and Training Department

08 Tran Phu Street, Quy Nhon City, Binh Dinh Province

Tel: +84.56. 825502 - 822128          Fax: +84.56. 826744