The Role of Foreign Aid to Secondary Education on Human Capital Development in Palestine
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35516/jjes.v9i1.249Keywords:
Foreign Aid, Human Capital Development, Secondary Education, Gaza StripAbstract
The study sheds light on the role of foreign aid to secondary education on the development of human capital from the perspective of teachers and educational experts, based on staff capacity-building programs and the assistance provided to the infrastructure of educational institutions (schools) in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Teachers’ questionnaires and the interviews of educational experts showed the role of foreign aid to secondary education on the development of human capital in the Gaza Strip. Experts (higher level) agreed that foreign aid contributes significantly to human capital development through training and capacity building of employees and improving infrastructure. In contrast, teachers (operational level) found that foreign aid has limited benefits in these areas. Moreover, frequencies and percentages related to demographic characteristics, and standard deviations, indicate that experience, training, and education are the three main mechanisms for acquiring and developing human capital.
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