And this project is only one of the reasons why the Ministry of Education's budget will be increased in the coming fiscal year. In fact, that ministry has the second largest budget after the Ministry of Finance. According to the minister, it reflects the priority being given to educating the younger generation, which goes a long way in crime and poverty prevention. He also said that there are a lot more projects coming in the pipeline.
Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education, Culture
"It's a reflection of the rollout of this program but also a number of projects that we're taking and getting ready for in special areas like special education, early childhood education, technical and vocational education and training so we have specific projects that we're going to be launching in this year's budget, all of that is present in the increase that you see because you know those are priority areas for us, we have to focus on them."
"We're obviously very grateful as I said to the prime minister, Minister of Finance, the Cabinet, for their solid, strong, unwavering support to education. I think I can tell you, in Cabinet all of my colleagues understand and appreciate the critical importance of investing in education, whether you're talking about national security issues, fighting crime, when you're talking about human development, fighting poverty, training our people for investments, for competing, skills training, getting our people prepared to participate in economic development, everybody recognizes that we need to invest in our people, education is the key to lifting our country out of, and lifting people out of poverty but it's the key to growth and development. So we're very pleased as you said, education continues to et majority major share after the Ministry of Finance of the budget and it's an absolute reflection of the priority our administration places on education."
Almost half the education ministry's budget is for emoluments.
