RSS 2.0 FeedLebanon's Educational Reform Program
Thu, Feb 05, 2009
The prototype for all the alphabets of the world was an invention, in 1200 BC, by the Phoenicians, who are thought to have settled in Lebanon, giving the country a hand in promulgating literacy across the world. The country enjoys one of the highest literacy rates in the region at 85%, employing 36,000 teachers in the public sector alone and pouring a generous budget of LP 900 billion ($600 million) or 13% of its total budget on education, second only to defense. But the good news ends here.
