Education in

Sub Saharan AfricaAlexis Neitzey

LBST 2102: Intercultural & Global Connections

April 2013

Fast Facts:•Developments

• Universities established• Reforms• Structure of Education

System

•Debt relief increase• Enrollment Increase

• from 56% in 1999 to 70% in 2006

• 34 million children

• Challenges

• Tertiary Education• Developing Africa (foundation)• Support from World Bank

• Analytical Work• Lending• Strategic Learning

•Universal Primary Education• Fast Track Initiative• Primary Education

Development Program

Developments• Universities Established

Firsts established in colonial period (1920-1960)

Role of universitieso Independenceo Socio-economic development

Most created after 1960• Reforms

Widening of access Inclusion of new fields World Bank: school improvement Relevance to African needs Quality and efficiency(not implemented well)

• Structure of Education System Organized at primary, secondary,

technical/vocational, and university-levels

Similar in length of studies at all levels

Further Developments

Debt Relief•Many governments directs savings to education•Mali: almost half of savings for education• Nigeria: hired 40,000 teachers• Kenya & Tanzania: abolition of school fees more students

Enrollment Increase• Primary schools increase from 56% in 1999 to 70% in 2006• Increase of 34 million children between 1999 and 2006•Due to development assistance and debt relief

Challenges• Africa has lowest

enrollment rate in the world for higher education• Less accessible to

disadvantaged groups and women• Limited resource

allocation• 80% of budgets go for

salaries and student grants• Overcrowded campuses

• Old curriculum and books• Poor teaching methods• Limited skillful faculty• Inefficient assurance

agents and research infrastructure• High unemployment for

graduates• Limited published

academic papers

Tertiary Education• Foundation for sustainable

economy• World Bank support is fit to

country’s specific needs• Analytical Work• Country Status Reports:

change in enrollment and participation, financing and sustainability, unit costs and efficiency, and equity.

• Lending• Ethiopia: Post-Secondary Education

Project• Mauritania: Higher Education Project• Uganda: Millennium Science Initiative• Mozambique: Higher Education

Project• Strategic Learning• Conferences, forums, workshops,

partnerships, and organizations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ8LxHWvAoE

Universal Primary Education• Fast Track Initiative• “partnership between donor

countries and developing countries to accelerate progress towards achieving universal primary education”• Technical knowledge and

funding• Has been very successful in

student enrollment

• Policies implemented to ensure free universal primary education

• “Rising primary enrollment and completion rates have led to free universal secondary education”

Works Cited• http://www.nokut.no/Documents/NOKUT/

Artikkelbibliotek/Konferanser/SU%20konferanser/Seminarer/Fagsem_08/Teklu%20Abate%20Bekele.pdf• http://www.one.org/c/us/progressreport/776/• http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/

COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/EXTAFRREGTOPEDUCATION/0,,contentMDK:21678040~menuPK:4762592~pagePK:34004173~piPK:34003707~theSitePK:444708,00.html• All images from Google images under keywords

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