Higher Educational System in Lao PDR
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 11
Abstract
Education is a major vector in society, its role as an instrument of social change and social development is widely recognized today that each country has tried to develop their educational systems as human resource. In Lao PDR, nationally educational system is united system, which consists of private and public sectors, and formally and informally educational systems, which is divided in to grades and levels from pre-education to higher education. Higher education means post high school education, which consists of associate, bachelor, post graduate, master and doctoral degrees, which its duty to provide scholars, scientists and researchers for social services. The government holds centered education of human resource development, and supports all Lao citizens in gaining access to higher education based on an individual’s competencies and conditions and has changed and improved curriculum contexts to close to international standard, has proved strategic framework and priorities, which are improved quality and efficiency of education services, public education sector and performance management; in the future will mainly focus on access and quality improvements to bring strategic development plan closer to the world’s innovation and development and learn from world successes, to educate Lao people to be good citizens and loyal to the people’s democratic regime, put modern sciences and technologies in the curriculum of higher educational system, encouraging participation of all sectors in education development and taking it as the duty of the whole society that to create favorable conditions for expanding education in accordance with the country's development. Keywords: Educational system, Higher education, curriculum standard, strategy, Lao PDR.
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Sybuamala Phoutthaphone, Yu Dahuai, Wu Jing
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