Informal Education
The vision of developing a learning society includes a clear need to promote the idea that learning can also take place outside the formal space of the classroom. Support for informal learning is reinforced by a network of over 800 libraries, at district and provincial levels, together with a network of 15 science museums. Educational television and radio programs providing direct teaching as well as enrichment activities are broadcast nationwide through seven satellite transmitted channels from the Royal Sponsored Project and the Ministry of Education. In addition, every school is connected to the internet, with the aim of serving their local communities, and computer to student ratios are targeted to fall from 1:46 to 1:20.