Vice President Dr. Mohamed Waheed has highlighted the most pressing issues the government was trying to solve, in facilitating higher education opportunities to Maldivian youth, and the improvement of areas in need of development, in the expansion of higher education the Maldives. The Vice President spoke on the matter, at the reception hosted by the Australian High Commissioner to congratulate the 2012 AusAID recipients of the Maldives, and to honor Maldivian AusAID alumni.
At the ceremony held last evening at Traders Hotel, Vice President Dr. Waheed pointed out the different areas in need of development, in the expansion of higher education in the Maldives: the need to administratively and academically strengthen the existing educational institutions in the Maldives; the need to send people abroad for university education in areas in which local training programmes of acceptable quality are not currently available; the need for the further development of a legislative and regulatory framework of higher education; and the need to provide students with an effective financial support system.
The Vice President also spoke on the developmental goals achieved in recent years, in the growth of higher secondary education system of the country, noting the increase in the number of students who achieve 5 or more passes in the O’ Level. He also noted that higher education in the Maldives is developing rapidly at the tertiary level, in turn providing opportunities for a higher number of students the chance to pursue post secondary education in the country.
