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SHARE Many of Lebanon’s schools resumed online lessons on Monday after observing a week-long strike its education minister had called to draw attention to the sector’s plight.
On Sunday, Tarek Majzoub said recent meetings with officials had “positive outcomes” and they had “promised to do everything they can to protect the sector”.
He had raised the alarm about the lack of support to the education sector in a statement issued on March 8.
Lebanon’s education sector, previously a leader in the Levant region, fell from grace in the past year as the country’s crises mounted.
The failing economy, pandemic and Beirut port explosion not only hindered the quality of education at its schools and universities, but also the ability of many students to participate.
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Students of the American University of Beirut have called for a tuition strike after the administration adopted a new dollar exchange rate last month, equal to a 160 per cent rise in annual fees.
They launched the “We won’t pay” campaign, urging students not to pay the tuition fees that are due on February 5, which have become largely unaffordable for many in the crisis-hit nation.
“I may be putting my education at risk because I only have one semester left before I graduate, but I will not pay the full tuition,” Karim Saadeh, t
reasurer of AUB’s Student Faculty Committee, told
Mon 21 Dec 2020 at 19:17 Politics
NNA - Caretaker Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, chaired this evening at the Grand Serail, a meeting of the Coronavirus Follow-up Committee in the presence of Ministers Zeina Akar, Raoul Nehme, Mohammad Fahmi, Imad Hoballah, Michel Najjar, Hamad Hassan, Tarek Majzoub and Charbel Wehbe, in addition to PCM Secretary General, Judge Mahmoud Makie, the Secretary General of the Supreme Defense Council, Major General Mahmoud Al-Asmar, and PM’s Advisors, Khodor Taleb and Petra Khoury.
The committee deliberated on coronavirus-related developments in light of the emergence of the new strain of the virus in Britain. A number of measures have been taken to limit the transmission of the virus to Lebanon, most notably: “Conducting a PCR test
Tue 15 Dec 2020 at 09:33 Education & Culture
NNA - Concluding her latest mission to Lebanon, Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) - the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises - highlighted the severe impact of multiple crises on the lives and education of the country’s children and youth, and urgently appealed for additional funding to support them: “We must all invest in education in Lebanon today; if not now, it may soon be too late. I call on public and private sector donors around the world to support Lebanon’s education system with the fierce urgency of now.”