Despite these impressive gains in primary and secondary education, most Bahraini children, particularly those from poor families, still have limited access to comprehensive and quality early childhood education (ECE) due to: poverty and limited State investment in or support of ECE programmes (in fact, comprehensive early education programmes are non-existent in the country) and the fact that child participation in pre-school classes is largely seen as a luxury.
The revision and development of the curriculum is one among four main strategic effort of ICHAD to promote and deliver a more comprehensive and quality HIV and Sexuality Education.
This Framework adopts a comprehensive and systemic approach to education and acknowledges the reality that accountability to deliver qualityeducation and to effectively facilitate learning lies at all levels and in all aspects of a general education system.
Since then, many Labour politicians have come up with elaborate excuses to opt out of the comprehensive system as it became apparent that these new schools were not delivering the high-quality education that had been promised.