For decades, the Syrian state ideologized the education system and miserably failed to manage it. The result was graduating many students who lack the skills required to effectively qualify to contribute to the country’s economy. 

The total destruction of Syria’s infrastructure in the past decade further exacerbated this failure. The scarcity of resources and wide-spread corruption added insult to injury.

The Syrian Liberal Party believes that the procedural and substantive aspects of the education system must be overhauled. 

The Party therefore supports:

1. An educational policy founded on human rights, promoting values which honor personal freedom, equality between and across social, ethnic and religious groups in pursuit of social justice and citizens’ rights. 
2. The Liberal Party supports policies that provide equal educational opportunities for female and male students.
3. The state should allocate no less than 7% of GDP to the education sector to train faculty and administrators, and no less than 3% to education research in academic institutions.
4. Provide special support to students in the primary and intermediate levels. Support is provided to families on account of the number of school-age children. Support can be provided in the form of vouchers that can be submitted to certified educational institutions.
5. Provide support to valedictorian undergraduate and graduate college students especially those enrolled in strategic and core sciences’ disciplines.
6. Provide support to universities based on their ranking against established  standards of excellence. These rankings are designed to incorporate production-related strategies, including criteria to “enable vulnerable students to access education opportunities”.
7. The state would enact legislations to provide student loans for high school, undergraduate and graduate students. Disbursement should guarantee fairness, efficient distribution and non-profit purposes.
8. The state should apply the necessary controls and minimum qualification criteria to all service providers to guarantee quality education. The state shall cooperate with local governance institutions to provide the required oversight.
9. The state shall establish a standardized electronic system to gauge students’ academic progress.
10. Modernize teaching strategies and adopt new mechanisms to convey knowledge, including by remote learning made necessary due to emerging and cost cutting requirements. 
11. The state shall adopt education, vocational and job training  policies to give students the chance to acquire practical experience required for accessing the private sector job market.
12. Education shall be mandatory through ninth grade (end of primary education level).
13. Reform scientific college councils, and update admission policies.
14. Pre-high-education-level services might include:
15. Public Education:
16. Reform current public schools and solicit the private sector’s input   to manage them.
17. Build new public schools managed by private sector service- providers through a contracting process that includes constructing, operating and transfer of ownership of new schools.
18. Civic Education: Provided by civic institutions willing to invest in education, can access student-earmarked government financing, and contribute financially to the budgets of these ventures.
19. Private Education: Provided by for-profit institutions. 
20. Educational services for higher education can be pursued under three options:
21. Public Education:
22. Reform current public institutions of higher education and solicit the private sector’s input   to manage them.
23. Build new universities managed by private sector service-providers through a contracting mechanism that includes construction, operating and transfer of ownership of the new universities.
24. Civic Education: Provided by civic institutions willing to invest in education. These institutions provide capital and collect tuition fees.  
25. Private Education: Provided by for-profit institutions.
26. Local authorities supervise schools and are responsible for the curricula, subject to state issued general controls to guarantee student access to  and quality of higher education.
27. Local governance authorities are free to choose the school curricula used in their educational institutions including language or languages of instruction they deem fit for purpose. Schools should teach official and national languages in the areas where national languages are used. 
28. Hate speech, national and religious supremacy speech shall be banned from educational curricula.
29. The state shall provide local governance institutions with the necessary support to design suitable curricula.
30. Encourage the establishment of specialized colleges to teach various Syrian languages and cultures.