With a projected budget of $35 billion USD, Libya is currently embarking on a development program to expand, upgrade and modernize its vital infrastructure, and education is leading at the forefront (on 27.11.2006 in the meeting of the general planning council, the secretary of the general people's committee, Al Baghdadi Al Mahmoudi, stated that Libya 's 2007 budget allocated for the development programs will reach over $15 billion USD and that the priority is for Education, health and social services infrastructure projects).

The main focus of the government's investment in education is to give its citizens the very best educational opportunity. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, president of the Gaddafi Development Foundation, stated in a meeting with the BBC's Mike Donkin about the challenges Libya faces and about his vision for Libya "I guess that Libya in the next few years will be the biggest workshop in the world".

The Gaddafi Development Foundation has taken the responsibility for developing the education infrastructure in Libya. This includes:

The establishment of the Gaddaffi Development Foundation's Educational Committee to plan and oversee the development of the Educational Sector in Libya .
The modernization and updating of 5000 existing schools and colleges as well as building new state-of-art ones across the country and the
program will run over five years. This requires equipment and expertise
at all levels to create model educational establishments for the future
Libyan generation.
Improvement of the curriculum in schools and universities including the scientific journals, periodicals and books.
Opening the door for merging the Libyans with the global community through many programs such as providing a great number of young Libyans the opportunity to continue their studies abroad and to gain international qualifications. Hence the recent GPC decision number 8 to send 825 students for graduate studies abroad. 602 for doctorate degrees, 141 for masters, and 82 for both doctorate and masters degrees,.
The initiation of an 18 month plan to provide one million computers to one million Libyan children.
The initiation of a program to connect Libya with global educational community through broadband internet.
Every major hospital will become "an educational hospital" managed by an already established international hospital that will provide training of hospital management and process etc for the next 5 years with 20 hospitals currently targeted for this purpose.
Initiation of one million companies for one million Libyans. To do this, our young entrepreneurs need to be trained and enabled to help them be successful in their new ventures.
The establishment of e-government were registering a new company will not take more 30 minutes to complete.
Opening the door for cooperation between local universities / educational interests and international educational interests through cooperative contracts and memorandum of understandings.
Gaining funding for the educational development of Libya through donations, and various forms of foreign investment.
Substantially increasing the available number and range of scholarships.

EDUCATION LIBYA 2008 provides an opportunity for foreign investment and educational interests such as providers of educational equipment, products, technology, consultancy services, management and financial expertise to participate in the development of Libya's Education Future.