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Written by Hilary Vasco Wiagbe
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
Education Minister, Dr. Joseph Korto says the students’ textbooks ratio is 27 to one in the country.
Minister Korto said the ratio shows that the educational sector of Liberia is facing acute shortage of textbooks.
He spoke Tuesday at program marking the signing of the Textbooks Procurement Contracts through the educational pooled fund with four publishers at the ministry.
Dr. Korto noted that the provision of relevant textbooks is crucial to the improvement of the educational system of the country.
According to the Education Minister, under the contracts, the publishers would prepare thousands of textbooks for the primary level in the sector.
Minister Korto put the total value of the contracts at more than four million United States dollars.
Dr. Korto stressed that when prepared, the textbooks would be what he called culturally sensitive.
He said funding for the project was made available by some educational partners of Liberia.
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