http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Impact of education expenditures on development discussed [The Source: www.sabanews.net - 19/12/2009] Experts and specialists in education field discussed here on Saturday a draft of report "Spending on Education and Its Impact on the Development". The participants in the symposium, organized by Yemeni Youth Development Center at the Social Democratic Forum in cooperation with the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation, called upon forming a national committee to be involved in representatives of the civil society, educational leadership and others concerned with the educational process to assess the government's plans and oversee their implementation step-by-step.They stressed the importance of forming a committee from university students in the provinces to make field visits to all primary and secondary schools in their provinces as well as the public and private universities to formulate all problems and students complaints about the education level in each province.Moreover, the participants recommended the need to make the basic education compulsory for children of ages from 5 to 14 years throughout the country, under the terms of the basic education development strategy and to abide by the free basic education decision and take effective measures to raise rates of continuation in the post-basic education phases.