WORLD BANK TO HELP IMPROVE CROATIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM

( Editorial: --> 8447 ) ZAGREB, 30 Jan (Hina) - The World Bank has agreed to start working on a project to help the Croatian school system. The agreement was reached on Friday at a meeting between two representatives of the World Bank office in Zagreb and Education and Sports Minister Ljilja Vokic. Education experts from the World Bank and Croatian Education Ministry personnel are working on the project, with the final aid programme expected to be completed by the middle of 1999. Minister Vokic mentioned several fundamental projects in the school system which she says need financial support. These include programmes of individualised instruction in which 70 per cent of school programmes would be decided by the ministry, while the rest would be chosen by the school or the students themselves. Others include equipping schools with modern technology and other tuition equipment, the building of sports halls in schools and rebuilding destroyed or damaged schools. (Hina) mm mb 301941 MET jan 98