Business Skills Course Aims at High School Students
A new train-the-trainers course supported by USAID is integrating entrepreneurial skills into the curriculum of Timor-Leste's technical high schools. The course is run by USAID's Private Sector Development Project as part of the International Labour Organization's "Know About Business" program. During the course, 26 lead teachers from all 13 of the country's technical high schools will learn to teach the course effectively. It will become part of the schools' full curriculum in the next year. (Jan. 17, 2006)

Workshops Highlight Legal Rights and Access
More than 300 residents of Timor-Leste's outlying district of Oecussi recently participated in a series of USAID-funded legal education workshops. Conducted by lawyers and staff of the Fatu Sinai Foundation of Oecussi, a local NGO, the workshops provided practical information about the formal justice system, the difference between civil and criminal cases, and the law on property ownership, a sometimes contentious issue in a country that has spent more than 400 years under foreign administration. Legal education is an important part of USAID's rule of law focus area in Timor-Leste. (Jan. 17, 2006)