Petra News Agency
March 26, 2007
Jordan ranks 1st in
education at Arab level: Int’l report
Amman, March 25(Petra)—The World Bank report on education quality in the Arab
world underlined that Jordan has ranked first in education at the Arab level and
achieved an advanced average in scientific topics that mounts to international
level, according to the World Bank report on education quality.
The remarks were made in a lecture on the report delivered by Director General
of Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey Ahmad Jalal
during a scientific meeting organized by Showman Cultural Forum on Saturday.
The report comes in the course of serial of regional reports issued by the WB on
Middle East and North of Africa region. Each report talks about a separate topic
that concerns the region.
He said good education quality depends on three basic elements: architecturing
educational reform, motives and incentives and public accountability.
The Arab countries have spent a large percentage of their GDP on education
programs over the past forty years. Their spending was more that of Latin
America East Asia and that is why they have accomplished high rates of education
almost reaching 100 per cent in primary education Jalal said.