New Laws Passed for Additional Vocational Training
Programs
The Lebanese Government passed new laws allowing our school to start new
vocational training programs. Decree number 3009 dated 13 January 2010
allowed JLSS to teach sewing and hairdressing at the BP level, and
Decree 1296 dated 7 January 2010 passed the new Dual System Carpentry
Curriculum that JLSS requested and had been working to produce with GTZ: Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit and JLSS' partners in Germany
(EVS:
Evangelischer Verein für die Schneller-Schulen
& BBW: Berufsbildungswerk Waiblingen gGmbH) for the last two years. Both
decrees were published in the Official Gazette and thus the legal
requirements for launching those programs were finally completed. Both
were very important achievements for JLSS. The first finally brought
vocational training to girls in JLSS, and the second affirmed the role of
our school in shaping vocational training in Lebanon. We thank all our
partners who helped us to reach those objectives. We especially thank
EVS and BBW in Germany and both GTZ and the Directorate of Vocational Training
in the Ministry of Education in Lebanon for helping us to achieve
those very important goals.