Early Childhood Care and Education(ECCE)
The Government of Syria is also taking charge of providing pre -primary or early childhood education.Up until the early 1990s. ECCE programs were provided by mostly non-governmental institutions of which few belonged to the government sector,while other were either private, run by Teacher's Syndicate,General Union of workers (GUW)or the Women's Federation.
In 1990 only 5 percent of the children between the ages of 3 and 5 were enrolled in 793 kindergartens. Ten years later 7.8 percent of that age group was enrolled. Furthermore, the data from the Syrian Ministry of Education shows an increase in the number for kindergartens from 1096 to 1475 in 2004.
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