[{"bbox": [83, 104, 1154, 186], "category": "Text", "text": "Education have been supervised by the newly established Professional Education Department (March 2021). Prior to the ongoing Government optimisation, the Primary VET was managed by the VET Agency, an institution that used to be subordinate to the Ministry of Labour and in 2016 moved to the MoES."}, {"bbox": [83, 197, 1154, 358], "category": "Text", "text": "Overall, the key stakeholders of education sector are the MoES, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MoEF), schools, the Boards of Trustees (incl. Parents associations) of the schools, local authorities, the social partners and education-focused civil society organisations, education practitioners. Children and students receiving general education, vocational education and higher professional education constitute the final beneficiaries of the system. Straddling the stakeholder and beneficiary groups is the workforce of the MoES – the teachers and education administrators – whose compensation takes up the largest share of the operating education budget."}, {"bbox": [83, 368, 1145, 476], "category": "Text", "text": "The engagement of civil society organisations as key stakeholders will be mainstreamed throughout intervention enabling them to oversee and build public pressure for the education reforms and respect of fundamental values, represent the voices of rights-holders (people, including children), monitor and evaluate policy implementation and improve the inclusion and skills development of those at risk of failing to benefit from education."}, {"bbox": [87, 506, 482, 535], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.3. Additional Areas of Assessment"}, {"bbox": [147, 549, 1140, 580], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 2.3.1. Pre-condition on Fundamental Values [For a Sustainable Development Goals Contract only]"}, {"bbox": [83, 600, 127, 624], "category": "Text", "text": "N/A"}, {"bbox": [131, 685, 357, 715], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 2.3.2. Public Policy"}, {"bbox": [83, 736, 1170, 844], "category": "Text", "text": "The Kyrgyz Government recognises the transformative power of education, which is reflected in the Education Development Programme 2021-2040 adopted in May 2021. The new education policy is addressing current and future socio-economic and demographic pressure points and vulnerabilities of the Kyrgyz Republic. It is attentive to inclusive growth and development of a young nation aspiring for its place in the global knowledge economy."}, {"bbox": [83, 854, 1170, 962], "category": "Text", "text": "The new Education Programme 2040 includes **three core tasks** (i) Fair and equal access; (ii) Quality assurance in education; and (iii) Effective management and financing. Implementation of all three tasks is envisaged at all levels of education and the main priorities are identified within each of the tasks, which for the most part provide a comprehensive coverage of the reform needs of the Sector:"}, {"bbox": [102, 973, 514, 1000], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. Priorities to ensure fair and equal access:"}, {"bbox": [102, 1001, 684, 1027], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Enrolment in education at all levels of the education system;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1028, 654, 1053], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Ensuring inclusiveness and multilingualism in education;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1054, 504, 1080], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Safe and effective learning environment."}, {"bbox": [102, 1080, 498, 1106], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. Priorities to improve education quality:"}, {"bbox": [102, 1107, 631, 1132], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Modernisation of the content of education at all levels;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1133, 382, 1159], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Digitalisation of education;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1160, 682, 1186], "category": "List-item", "text": "- System of continuous professional development of teachers;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1187, 871, 1212], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Effective and reliable system of monitoring and evaluation of learning outcomes;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1213, 409, 1239], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Qualitative learning materials."}, {"bbox": [102, 1239, 598, 1265], "category": "List-item", "text": "3. Priorities for effective management and financing:"}, {"bbox": [102, 1266, 1169, 1319], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Improvement of the management of human resources, organisational, technical and administrative capacity to ensure the systematic approach to education management and educational policy planning;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1319, 1169, 1371], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Strengthening the transition to normative financing at all levels of education and to greater autonomy in the management of resources at the level of educational institutions;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1372, 1169, 1398], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Accreditation and licensing, implementation of necessary oversight over the educational services and their results;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1399, 1169, 1451], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Regular monitoring of the implementation and evaluation of the results of the education system functioning and performance;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1452, 589, 1478], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Automation of the education management system."}, {"bbox": [83, 1489, 1169, 1543], "category": "Text", "text": "These priorities are translated into 8 levels of interventions, which are supported by the respective sub-measures in the 1st rolling Education Action Plan (EAP) 2021-2023:"}, {"bbox": [102, 1555, 331, 1580], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. Pre-school education;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1581, 296, 1607], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. School education;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1608, 371, 1634], "category": "List-item", "text": "3. Extracurricular education;"}, {"bbox": [102, 1635, 710, 1661], "category": "List-item", "text": "4. Primary professional education (primary vocational education);"}, {"bbox": [1051, 1663, 1157, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 7 of 30"}]