Plan aims to curb declining education standards in Gaza Strip

In an attempt to curb deteriorating standards of education in the Gaza Strip over the past year the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), has announced a plan to reverse the high failure rates of students. UNRWA is working to hire an additional 1,558 remedial teachers, said John Ging, UNRWA's Gaza director, with one teacher to be placed in every classroom in grades two, three and four to help improve learning. “School attendance has been seriously disrupted due to inter–factional fighting, repeated military raids and unprecedented poverty, where children come to school hungry and unable to concentrate,” said Ging. Read the article at IRIN News.