Education: Among the programmes and projects planned for the education sector within the next five years
include: constructing and fully equipping 560 secondary schools; building at least one boarding primary
school in each constituency of the ASAL districts; and recruiting an additional 28,000 school teachers. Other
activities to be implemented during the Plan period are the integration of the Early Childhood Development
and Education Programme; the introduction of Special Needs Education into basic education; Curriculum
Development and Review as well as developing new programmes towards the enhancement of ICT education
and Adult Basic Education. The target set by 2012 is to raise the primary to secondary school transition rate
to 75 per cent and the rate from secondary to university to 15 per cent. All this will help reduce enrolment
disparities between regions and across gender while advancing national education indicators close to that of
a middle income country.