The education sector in Rwanda shall receive over Rwf421.7 billion in the proposed budget for 2021/2022 up from Rwf414.4 billion in the current budget.
The allocation which is the highest among all the sectors is targeted at improving the quality of teaching and learning.
The disclosure was made by the Minister of Education, Valentine Uwamariya during his address to the parliamentary Committee on National Budget and Patrimony.
The Minister also said that the key priorities in the next fiscal year and the medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF) was to ensure increase in access to pre-primary education so as to increase net enrollment rate in this education level from 17.5 percent in 2016 [and 24.6 percent in 2019] to 45 percent by 2024.
Others are upgrading and increasing school infrastructure and ensuring access to adequate equipment, the number of qualified teachers and improving their welfare, and the use of ICT in teaching and learning.
Uwamariya also said that the priorities of the 2021/2022 budget are in line with the National Strategy for Transformation (NST1), and the education sector’s strategic targets.
“For us to achieve quality education, we need to have qualified teachers and with better welfare,” the Minister stated.
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