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Australia grants A$48m for education in W. Nusa Tenggara
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Education breakthrough -- The Australian Embassy's development cooperation counsellor Sarah Lendon (right), the head of education assessment center at the Culture and Education Ministry's research and development agency, Nizam (center), and West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) development planning agency secretary, M.Ilham, discuss the INOVASI program during a press conference in Mataram, NTB, on Monday.
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he Australian government has allocated A$48 million worth of grants through its Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to finance the Innovation for Indonesian Schoolchildren (INOVASI), a four-year education program in six regencies across West Nusa Tenggara (NTB).
“We have prepared A$12 million per year for the INOVASI program. The program will run from 2016-2019 and can be extended for four years more,” the Australian Embassy’s development cooperation counselor, Sarah Lendon, said on Monday.
She was speaking after discussing which six regencies would be the beneficiaries of the INOVASI program at the West Nusa Tenggara Planning and Development Agency (Bappeda) in Mataram.
Lendon said the INOVASI program aimed to increase the quality of education, especially numerical and literacy skills, among elementary and junior high school students. The INOVASI programs in NTB was a pilot project conducted under cooperation with the Culture and Education Ministry and the provincial administration, she explained. The program was launched in the middle of June by NTB Governor M.Zainul Majdi and the ministry’s officials.
Lendon explained the INOVASI program was committed to identifying education problems and their solutions in their partner regencies.
“We are very happy that the six regencies have demonstrated interest in partnering with INOVASI. Through this program, we will support the Indonesian government’s efforts to improve education by directly supporting learning activities in classes, including pilot activities and the replication of successful lessons from other schools and regencies,” Lendon said. (ebf)
