Damascus-SANA
Agricultural vocational high schools are waiting for the implementation of Law No. 38 of 2021 on vocational secondary education to transform their course into actual training and production centers that benefit students, teachers and society.
Director of Agricultural Education and Rehabilitation at the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Engineer Hazar Ismail, described in a statement to SANA the new law as “an important turning point for vocational education in Syria” because it contributes to making vocational high schools centers and production workshops based on the idea of practical training in the real work environment.
Ismail added that the distribution of profits resulting from production, maintenance and service contracts in schools, according to the law, is divided equally between compensation, incentives and rewards for workers, supervisors and students, and between developing the requirements of the production process, which constitutes an incentive for all parties, indicating that a good number of existing vocational high schools have a good ground of tools and equipment. appropriate to comply with the requirements of the new law.
The Director of Agricultural Education and Rehabilitation pointed out that they are awaiting the issuance of the executive instructions of the new law to harmonize them with what is in secondary schools and secure what is required accurately, considering that the responsibility today has become great on the shoulders of vocational education, especially agricultural, stressing the need to study financial procedures and contracts carefully to work properly on the ground and avoid Wastage and errors.
Regarding curricula, Ismail indicated that planning is underway with the Ministry of Education to develop agricultural and veterinary curricula and agricultural machinery according to the data required by the stage and the labor market.
The first agricultural vocational high school in Syria was established in 1910 in Salamiyah, Hama Governorate, and its number reached 47 in 2011 in all governorates, with three specializations “agricultural, veterinary and agricultural machinery” to remain in service, including only 19 schools due to what Syria was subjected to during the years of the terrorist war so that the Ministry approached its work Today, according to its statistics, it aims to have 26 schools in service.
Mehran Mualla