Ulaanbaatar
Education Sector to Work in Completely New Legal Environment in 2023-2024
Society
Ulaanbaatar, August 31, 2023 /MONTSAME/. “The newly approved Education Package Law should be correctly comprehended and particular attention must be paid to its implementation at every level. Major platforms will be introduced in secondary schools, and more attention will be paid to the rights of children and students to learn and develop, and their protection. Improvements of dormitory and library services are reflected in the documents.
Registration for the expansion of "Medle" On-line School, which opened last year with 10,000 children, has
begun to organize selective
courses for the 11th graders.
The number of children of "Medle"
On-line
School is expected to reach 30,000 this
year.
The school promotes independent
learning of children in remote
areas where they do not have a possibility to select subjects,” assumes the Head
of the Secondary Education Department of the Ministry of Education and Science
T. Nyam-Ochir at a press conference co-organized by the Ministry of Education and
Science, General
Authority for Education and The Capital City Education Department in connection with the start of the new school year.
Apart from legitimizing the start and the end
of classes in pre-school facilities
and secondary schools, the number of class days during the school year was set to be 170-185 days in conformity with international standards. Since the four-term
structure was approved,
the official letter on the
training plan has been delivered to all aimags. The time schedule
of the curriculum has not been changed, and the regulations were made
to enable the schools to decide on their own examination weeks, issues
pertaining to public holidays, and spend more time for children’s development
and protection.
This
school year, 302 thousand children are preliminarily registered in the pre-school
facilities, i.e. kindergartens. The
second round of registration for the capital's kindergartens will be organized
soon, but estimates suggest over 71,000 new children to be enrolled.
This year 781,000 children will study
in secondary schools nationwide,
making increase of 35,000 children from the last year. About 40,000 teenagers will study in vocational education and 22,000 new teenagers will be enrolled. In higher educational
institutions, 147,000 youth will study and 25,000 youth will enter
institutes and universities. These preliminary
figures will be finalized by October 15.
