Education in Syria
Up until the early 1990s, ECCE programs were provided by mostly non-governmental institutions, of which few belonged to the government sector, while others were either private or run by the Teacher's Syndicate, General Union of Workers (GUW) or the Women's Federation.
[6] At the secondary lower level final exams of the 9th grade are carried out nationally at the same time.
According to UIS the total enrollment in technical and vocational education (both private and public) in 2007 decreased to 103 from 113,994 students in 2006.
[9] Most post-secondary education is state-provided, but legislation passed in 2001 allows the establishment of some private universities and colleges.
[7] Resources for education have risen in absolute terms over the past decade, but it is difficult to match the rate of population growth.
[7] Colleges charge modest fees ($10–20 a year) if the student achieves the sufficient marks in their Baccalaureate exams.
Domestic policies emphasize engineering and medicine in Syria’s universities, with less emphasis on the arts, law, and business.
The centre was founded to set clear criteria for cross-border certificates based on the methodology, techniques and institutional standard measurement tools.
its aim is to measure knowledge, skills and attitudes in a scientific way, to ensure the quality of higher education outputs to meet developmental needs.
[citation needed] According to the Constitution of Syria of 1973, Chapter 3: Educational and Cultural Principles, Article 21, it is written: The educational and cultural system aims at creating a socialist nationalist Arab generation which is scientifically minded and attached to its history and land, proud of its heritage, and filled with the spirit of struggle to achieve its nation's objectives of unity, freedom, and socialism, and to serve humanity and its progress.The article was later scrapped in the new Constitution of 2012.
[21] Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad in 2024, a transitional government was put in place, and proposed changes to textbooks were announced.
Syria expert Joshua Landis argued that the new textbooks were moving to an "Islamist interpretation of Syrian history".
[22] Nazir al-Qadri said that these proposed changes would not go into place until committees reviewed and scrutinised the changes, and that "what was deleted is what glorifies the former regime and its followers".
[26] After the collapse of the al-Assad government in 2024, universities in Syria were temporarily closed due to political uncertainty.
[27] This measure and others, such as making computer literacy mandatory at the high-school level and English- and French-language instruction compulsory in the elementary schools, have the goal of equipping students with computer and language skills in order to modernize the economy through the education system.
The Syrian Civil War is a major barrier to quality education for all in Syria, reversing development gains in the country.
